What are more things we can do to save the earth and the polar bears?

Question

What are more things we can do to save the earth and the polar bears?

Answer 1

recycle, car pooling, not cutting down tree(if u do then plant 2 more for every tree u cut down), take short showers, stop littering,use floresant light to save energy, if i think of anymore then i will let u know.

Answer 2

Polar bear population is fine, the earth will endure.  Go out and take care of those in need if you want to help.

Answer 3

Do not listen to Al Gore.  Polar bears are doing fine:

Polar bear die-off unlikely: GN official

Fears that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will die off in the next 50 years are overblown, says Mitchell ­Taylor, the Government of Nunavut's director of wildlife research.

"I think it's naïve and presumptuous," Taylor said of the report, released by U.S. Geological Survey on Friday, which warns that many of the world's polar bears will die as sea ice vanishes due to a warming climate.

"As the sea ice goes, so go the polar bears," said Steve Amstrup, who led the study.

But Taylor says that's not the case. He points to Davis Strait, one of the southern-most roaming grounds of polar bears. According to the USGS, Davis Strait ought to be among the first places where polar bears will starve due to shrinking seasonal sea ice, which scientists say will deprive the bears of a vital platform to hunt seals.

Yet "Davis Strait is crawling with polar bears," Taylor said. "It's not safe to camp there. They're fat. The mothers have cubs. The cubs are in good shape."

http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/2007/7...

The territory's polar bear population is doing fine, he said.

"There's a lot of uninformed people and these people feed on the ignorances of these people and force governments to make … policies that are very reactive or very hard on the people of Nunavut," Netser said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/200...

There are believed to be at least 22,000 polar bears worldwide [...] The general status of polar bears is currently stable...

World Wild life fund.

http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_d...

So the question is, if they are lying to you about this issue, what issues are they lying to you about?

Answer 4

Polar bears?  The polar bears are doing fine.  You need to check your sources.

Here you go, Laura.

Population Estimates:

[Note: Figures given are for wild populations only.]

WORLD

1965: About 10,000 (IUCN 1966)

1967: About 10,000 (Schuhmacher 1967)

1972: Roughly estimated at 20,000 (DeMaster & Stirling 1981)  

1983: Perhaps 20,000 (Nowak & Paradiso 1983)  

1996: 20,000 - 30,000 (Watson 1996)  

1997: 22,000 - 27,000 (Garner 1997)  

1998: 22,130 - 27,030 (Truett & Johnson 2002)  

2001: At least 22,000 (Schliebe 2001)  

2002: 21,500 - 25,000 (Lunn et al. 2002)  

2005: 20,000 - 25,000 (Polar Bear Spec. Gr. 2005)  

2006: 20,000 - 25,000 (IUCN 2006)

Answer 5

I'll have to stop laying off the polar bear steaks.

guess what, that picture of a drowning polar bear was proven fake, so chill out.

Answer 6

nothing. i know its not what anybody wants to here, including America, but we need to understand that global warming is natural. we do less the 2 percent of pollution that nature does on its own naturally.  the polar will survive, and many other animal have been through this. theve already started adapting, and we are saving them. relax, and just remember, its all good.

Answer 7

Feed them cows.

Answer 8

Polar bears are not increasing that is one of the myths of the skeptics, here's the real dope on that.

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

"Recently there have been claims that polar bear populations are increasing. So what's going on? There are thought to be between 20,000 and 25,000 polar bears in 19 population groups around the Arctic. While polar bear numbers are increasing in two of these populations, two others are definitely in decline. We don't really know how the rest of the populations are faring, so the truth is that no one can say for sure how overall numbers are changing.

The two populations that are increasing, both in north-eastern Canada, were severely reduced by hunting in the past and are recovering thanks to the protection they and their prey now enjoy.

The best-studied population, in Canada’s western Hudson Bay, fell by 22% from 1194 animals in 1987 to 935 in 2004, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. A second group in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska’s north coast, is now experiencing the same pattern of reduced adult weights and cub survival as the Hudson Bay group.

A comprehensive review  by the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that shrinking sea ice is the primary cause for the decline seen in these populations, and it recently proposed listing polar bears as threatened  under the Endangered Species Act. The World Conservation Union projects the bears' numbers will drop by 30% by 2050  due to continued loss of Arctic sea ice."

As far as the big picture, here's what we can do now.

We should embark on the following program to convert the U.S. electric grid to 65% solar by 2050 and near 100% solar by 2100.

We could do this with 1/4 of the money we now give to oil companies as subsidies and 1/40 of the total hidden costs of oil, which are about $800 billion annually; not counting the Iraq war and it's costs in lives and money.

We can do just that at a suprisingly low cost, with technology we already have. It has already begun in California which could have over 2 gigawatts of new solar from power plants, in just a few years. We already have 355 megawatts now.

I gigawatt = 1000 megawatts

I gigawatt would power San Francisco, or the equivalant of 775,000 homes. A medium size nuke plant, or Hoover Dam would be about 2 gigawatts. Two of the proposed solar plants for the Mojave Desert are up to 800 and 900 megawatts each.

Scientific America Solar Grand Plan

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-so...

http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/

Green Wombat has several stories on the companies working on solar thermal power plants in California.

"Solar thermal power plants such as Ausra's generate electricity by driving steam turbines with sunshine. Ausra's solar concentrators boil water with focused sunlight, and produce electricity at prices directly competitive with gas- and coal-fired electric power."

"Solar thermal power plants can store energy during daylight hours and generate power when it's needed. Ausra's power plants collect the sun's energy as heat; Ausra is developing thermal energy storage systems which can store enough heat to run the power plant for up to 20 hours during dark or cloudy periods."

"Solar is one the most land-efficient sources of clean power we have, using a fraction of the area needed by hydro or wind projects of comparable output. All of America's needs for electric power – the entire US grid, night and day – can be generated with Ausra's current technology using a square parcel of land 92 miles on a side. For comparison, this is less than 1% of America's deserts, less land than currently in use in the U.S. for coal mines."

from http://www.ausra.com

Concentrating photovoltaic power plants are viable for this also. They both use parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight. One converts light to electricity, the other uses the heat of the sun.

And other clean energies can add to the grid as distributed energy, including roof top solar panels, wind, waves , geothermal,etc.

We already have about 100 nuclear plants running, so for now, at least, they are part of the mix.

Fuel cells, that run on natural gas, are commercially available for power plants. Heat from the fuel cells is also captured and used.

Much cleaner than burning the gas.

Manure and plant waste from farms is good source of power and eliminates methane that would add to greenhouse gases otherwise.

I was impressed with the following.

"Wild Rose Dairy in Webster Township, WI is home to an innovative renewable energy facility powered by cow manure and other organic waste. The farm is home to 900 dairy cows, and an on-site anaerobic digester creates methane-rich biogas from their waste, which is used to generate 750 kilowatts of electricity per hour—enough to power 600 local homes 24/7."

That's one home for every 1 1/2 cows.

Answer 9

Looks like the facts are on the table about the polar bears, not sure if the real numbers will change any minds after the hype and propaganda.

The parts of the world that need saving are in China, Africa, South America, Indonesia, etc., eceonmic exploitation and development are destroying thousands of acres and millions of animals at a staggering rate. Lack of competent pollution controls and concern for the environment drive an ever-expanding destruction of natural habitats ...

Meanwhile, in the evil U. S. of A. ... forests are growing, endangered species are coming back, pollution controls and anti-pollution enforcement are making the air cleaner, the water more drinkable,,, parkland is increasing in our cities... but ... of course, we must cut back on our development we must not drill for the millions of barrels of oil we possess, we must not build any nuclear plants, we must not use our coal, we must not drive, we must not ....

Wake up world! The whole idea behind the man-made global warming panic is to try and force the US to stop being so good at what we do and let the rest of the world catch up.

You oughta go see what China has done to its environment snce Kyoto.

Answer 10

Actually Polar Bears are not that great...heard of climate change??!!!

Answer 11

In order to save the earth from global warming we need to reduce pollution which is the main cause of global warming. Pollution can be reduced when the vehicles run with pollution free fuels like CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) which is popular in South Asia. Some other ways to reduce pollution are afforestation, proper construction of drainage system, constructing factories on the out scuts of the cities etc. Therefore if pollution is controlled there won't be any melting of ice on the north and south pole. This will save the lives of the polar bears, penguins and other animals living in the cold regions.

Hope this helps:)

Answer 12

Eat grizzly bear, brown bear and black bear instead of polar bear