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Polar bears drowning in the artic - this is sad....
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| girllovingtvibe |
Polar bears drowing in Arctic
LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Scientists have uncovered evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.
According to a report in the Sunday Times of London, researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.
Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to the shore. Their sea journeys leave them vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia or being swamped by waves.
The newspaper said four bear carcasses were found floating in one month in a single patch of sea off the north coast of Alaska, where average summer temperatures have increased by 2 to 3 degrees since 1950s.
The scientists believe such drownings are becoming widespread across the Arctic, a consequence of the doubling in the past 20 years of the proportion of polar bears having to swim in open seas.
source: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.p...18-091016-8970r |
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| simms327 |
this is sad....
if this isnt evidence of global warming what is
the record number of droughts in the past 5 years
the record number of strong hurricanes
when will people wake up and smell the greenhouse gas... |
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| mushyflowa |
| quote: | Originally posted by girllovingtvibe
Average summer temperatures have increased by 2 to 3 degrees since 1950s. |
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| Refinnej |
| :( :( It saddens me when I hear things like this. I heard there are not even 300 polar bears left in the world :( |
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| DigitalMP |
It is very sad, but we have been thawing out of an ice age for 10,000 years.
And as for the number of hurricanes, we just barely passed a number that was hit back in what, 1930? So it's not really that farfetched. |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalMP
It is very sad, but we have been thawing out of an ice age for 10,000 years.
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Yep.
The earth has been warming up for quite a while now. |
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| ghetto_fab |
| Don't quote me on it but I think I remember seeing a show on global warming a while back. they said when the climate changed in the arctics then it will bring water levels up and eventrually florida and california will be small islands. something to look into. Sad that the polar ber drowned aswell. I would think they will learn to adapt to it as time goes on. |
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| EvilTree |
I don't like polar bears.
First time I saw sex was when polar bears were going at it at Marineland when I was like 10.
It scarred me for life. |
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| ++ EGO ++ |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilTree
I don't like polar bears.
First time I saw sex was when polar bears were going at it at Marineland when I was like 10.
It scarred me for life. |
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| tatgirl |
| The world is F*CKED within 50 years, unless drastic measures are changed with the way we live our lives. There's NO WAY I'm bringing a child into the world just to face droughts, water shortages, NYC being swallowed up by a tsunami, more earthquakes, and all that other glorious stuff. Its gonna be a scary place. We're killing the earth. |
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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by simms327
this is sad....
if this isnt evidence of global warming what is
the record number of droughts in the past 5 years
the record number of strong hurricanes
when will people wake up and smell the greenhouse gas... |
This is no more evidence of global warming than any other criteria you just posted. The Earth goes through natural cycles of strong weather systems. It's just that we're a little early into this one.
Whether global warming is or isn't happening, there is really very little that can be done about it. We all try to impose all sorts of restrictions on, for example, car emissions, factory emissions, what's allowed in certain decomposing products, what is not, but all of them are just that; restrictions. No matter who agrees or disagrees, we're still pumping countless tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every year. And we're aware of it. That's not a solution, that's just a prolonging of the inevitable. I don't really understand what you mean by the comment "when will people wake up and smell the greenhouse gas".
What is it that you think will happen? THat miraculously new technologies will just emerge to completely replace current manufacturing, producing, whatever, infrastructure? And that someone, just out of the goodness of their hearts will foot the bill? A change of that magnitude will require a catalyst of a like magnitude, and until some crazy disaster like that happens, we probably will just continue on our marry polluting way. |
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