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- Petraios, on 09/24/2008, -5/+255resort not result
- XxtraLarGe, on 09/24/2008, -2/+81You know who's not upset over this? Arctic seals.
- Metyu, on 09/24/2008, -26/+97What nonsense. And this a day after that stupid article comparing evolution and AGW "deniers". So let's discuss evolution:
"The polar bear probably first appeared roughly 200,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene."
"Scientists believe that the polar bear evolved from a group of brown bears that became isolated by glaciers in an area near Siberia. The stranded bears underwent a rapid series of evolutionary changes in order to survive on the ice."
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/bear-facts/ ...
A few things:
1 - How many times has the temperature risen 2oC above what it is today in the last 200,000 years? Answer, probably 2 or 3. Did the polar bear die out? (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_Climatic_Opt ...
2 - The evolution of the bear was a result of rapidly changing climate. But what about the brown bear? Did it die out?
3 - It should also be noted that there are more polar bears on the planet today than there were 40 years ago. The majority of deaths - by an order of magnitude - is a result of humans literally killing them, for sport or food or preservation. - Deputy_Doodah, on 09/24/2008, -6/+65All (male) bears are cannibalistic. They eat cubs, they eat weak mothers. Black bears, polar bears, grizzly bears, etc. etc. etc. they all do it. I was hiking in North Georgia this summer and I found a dead black bear cub that had been killed and partially eaten by a male bear.
This isn't some new behavior, it's just the first time a hippy has heard of it.
Some of you people would do the world a favor by leaving the city limits once in a while. - shaka999, on 09/24/2008, -1/+53Yeah, moving animals into other habitats always works out. What a great idea.
- startmenu, on 09/24/2008, -11/+62How do we know it's what they're resorting to? Maybe they've just discovered how great polar bear tastes?
- wrmjr, on 09/24/2008, -3/+50Your correction was much less snooty than mine was going to be.
- matrixbandit, on 09/24/2008, -12/+53This is very sad indeed, truly a failure on the part of the education system, that someone would confuse the word "result" with the word "resort".
..Also, not to be a dick, but I think you mean it was "Especially" sad, not "specially" sad. - Nintendesert, on 09/24/2008, -16/+53Adapt or become extinct, just like the mammoth before them.
- johnmatias, on 09/24/2008, -20/+56OM NOM NOM NOM
- glog, on 09/23/2008, -49/+84It's heart-breaking to see polar bears suffer such a fate - it's becoming increasingly urgent to protect them. A proposal has been floated to start moving bears to the South Pole in a effort to save them. I don't know if this is feasible but it's starting to sound like a good solution.
If you want to help save the polar bears please consider taking action:
World Wildlife Fund - Adopt a Polar Bear:
https://secure.worldwildlife.org/ogc/ogcAC_species ...
National Wildlife Federation - Adopt a Polar Bear:
https://online.nwf.org/site/Ecommerce/?VIEW_PRODUC ...
Sierra Club - Support the Polar Bear Seas Protection Act
https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Advocacy?cm ... - inactive, on 09/24/2008, -8/+41Holy ***** you people are dumb.
- sfacets, on 09/24/2008, -6/+37Digg users result to word inventing when lazy.
- 9bpm9, on 09/24/2008, -18/+44Animals resort to cannibalism all the time. Of course articles like this don't use facts to make a story.
- Nintendesert, on 09/24/2008, -3/+27Stupid stupid idea to relocate them. That's not their habitat.
- toconnor, on 09/24/2008, -2/+26I'm not sure which side you are referring to, but I agree.
- roddack, on 09/24/2008, -8/+29You only care because it is a cute animal....no one cares about the ugly ones
- apesounds, on 09/24/2008, -6/+25Interesting story, although did anyone catch the video portion of this news report? The lady in the end says this warming is continuing "as surely as [people are] clubbing polar bears cubs to death".
I've heard of people clubbing baby seals but who can prove we are also clubbing polar bear cubs??!? - Lagger, on 09/24/2008, -12/+31Polar bears do not drown unless they are injured. They can swim upwards of 20 miles. Polar bears have always resorted to cannibalism. Life in the arctic was never easy.
The photographer who took the photo that Al Gore STOLE for his presentation was shooting from shore and was very unhappy for the misrepresentation Mr. Gore was portraying with it. - Yazilliclick, on 09/24/2008, -7/+25Wait so the proposal to protect the environment is to ***** it over in another part of the world? When will you fools realize that this type of stuff is natural. Animals die, go extinct, evolve, thrive, die, kill, eat each other etc... Leave it be and stop falling for this save the current cute furry creature campaign.
- cmf2, on 09/24/2008, -0/+17Nova got dugg down because he failed to read glogs comment about relocating polar bears to the south pole to "save" them. In response to that, a perfectly logical question would be: what would become of the penguins?
Relocating polar bears is a terrible idea btw. - arpad, on 09/24/2008, -18/+34You don't have to look to hard to find out that polar bears are naturally cannibalistic. Finding food in the arctic is a dicey proposition so everything's always on the menu, cubs included.
Just more enviro-***** from the premier purveyors of ***** worldwide. - lanismycousin, on 09/24/2008, -16/+32sad that people worry more about this than the millions of kids around the world without clean food or water
- darkstar949, on 09/24/2008, -4/+19But what about the penguins - do the just be come bear food then?
- smcnow, on 09/24/2008, -3/+16Grammar nazis result to giving up and going home.
- TheImaginator, on 09/24/2008, -13/+26Silly buggers - they should just walk over to Canada, down through the US border and eat some fundies.
Some already have been moving into Canada from what I gather, so good for them.
Nature adapts. - GorfTron, on 09/24/2008, -15/+27Can we just bleach some grizzleys white and let me keep my hummer?
- dondara, on 09/24/2008, -3/+15Moving them is a terrible idea. It sucks they they are struggling but there is nothing we can do to stop it. They either have to adapt or they face extinction. But moving them to the South Pole sounds like an idea a 5th grader came up with.
- inactive, on 09/24/2008, -16/+28
ABC News: Palin Fought Polar Bear Protections
In defending her position, Palin has discounted the findings of nine recent U.S. Geological Survey studies which concluded that the polar bear's habitat is threatened by global warming, and the animals could be extinct before this century ends.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5689165&
- ChocChunkOaties, on 09/24/2008, -3/+15he even used 'resorting' in the description...
- rhavenn, on 09/24/2008, -3/+14Polar bears don't fish. They're way to big and slow to catch a fish. Their tactic is to wait by open holes in the ice for various sea going mammals (ie: ones that need to breath air like whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, etc...) to pop their noses / backs out of the water and then grab it / jump on it.
Open water means starvation for a polar bear. Now, some of you will argue that melting sea ice, etc... is a natural phenomena and humans and have nothing to do with it. The polar bears should change their tactics, etc... to survive. I agree to an extent, however the speed of the change is unprecedented. Normally, it takes thousands of years for such a major change in climate. We've manage to do it in a human lifetime. Most humans think that is a long time, but it is in fact not. - victorsage, on 09/24/2008, -11/+21Is it not possible that polar bears would "resort to cannibalism" for more reasons that just because their food supply is down? I have heard that male bears often times attack and kill the young of female bears so they can mate with them. If the mother of the cubs tries to intervene she runs the risk of being killed in the process along with her cubs. Also, bears will attack other bears for territorial purposes as well. If polar bears really are "resorting to cannibalism" is it not also possible it is due to over population?
As far as climate change goes, yesterday at 10AM the weatherman in my area said there would be thunderstorms throughout the evening. By noon, it was a chance of a thunderstorm. By the time 7PM rolled around, it had not rained at all that evening and from the looks of it this morning, no rain fell throughout the night either. Mind you, this is not the only occurrence of invalid weather predictions, this happens all the time. Does the fear mongering media and Al Gore really expect me to believe them when they say global warming is destroying our planet? Even if that were the case, do they really believe it is 100% human caused? Do they really believe there is anything we can do to change the climate? The fact is, the sun is getting hotter and the other planets in our solar system are warming up due to this, as well. There is really nothing we can do to change the temperature of the sun (as far as I know). We as a people can survive through this horrible time in human history. I just feel the fear mongering media's science is all wrong.
I'm no expert on polar bears or bear behavior in general. I am also no expert on climate change. (Nor do I feel anyone on this planet is for that matter.) If I were, I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to prove a point in the comments section of a web page...
Rant over - Metyu, on 09/24/2008, -6/+16To anyone giving this the thumbs down - three of you so far - please could you explain why?
- inactive, on 09/24/2008, -8/+18LIES LIES LIES but hey let your raw unintelligent emotions run wild and make decisions that will come back to haunt you.
- Unzorn, on 09/24/2008, -4/+14Yea, we already know that they like Coca-Cola
- ousthouse, on 09/24/2008, -6/+15????????
- zantos420, on 09/24/2008, -7/+16Let me tell you about endangered species, alright? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control Nature! It's arrogant meddling! It's what got us into trouble in the first place! Doesn't anybody understand that? Interfering with Nature! Over 90 percent.. over... way over 90 percent of all the species that have ever lived — EVER LIVED — on this planet are gone. Whissshht! They are extinct!
We didn't kill them all.
They just... disappeared! That's what Nature does! They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day, and I mean regardless of our behavior. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today, will be gone tomorrow! Let them go... gracefully! Leave Nature alone! Haven't we done enough?
~ George Carlin - SecondLaw, on 09/24/2008, -9/+18Environmentalists believe that animals have more value than humans. We are the invading virus. Dead children are the cure.
Believe it or not we have a bear problem here in northern New Jersey and there's a joke here (which is all too true). A bear breaks into your house looking for food and you shoot it. The cop says to you, "I'm sorry but if it had been a person you'd be alright, but since it was a bear, I'm going to have to take you in."
Environmentalism is out of control. - ColorBlind, on 09/24/2008, -8/+17Nature always finds a way...didn't you see Jurassic Park?
- EpicSelekta, on 09/24/2008, -10/+18Acid rain is still around, we just have bigger problems now. And before you bring it up, we did a number on that ozone hole problem by CFC regulation.
- dkevinscalf, on 09/24/2008, -1/+9It's not a grammatical error, it's the wrong ***** word.
Grammatical error: Their pie != They're pie
WFW: Their pie != Hair pie
You see what I'm driving at here? - maxtrix, on 09/24/2008, -8/+16"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
- ifruit, on 09/24/2008, -2/+10No, he is serious, he also works for a bleach company.
- driver3108, on 09/24/2008, -0/+8c'mon dude, good meat doesn't require steak sauce.
- Metyu, on 09/24/2008, -8/+16I agree entirely. 10,000 children die every month from easily preventable and treatable disease, and yet we are more likely to read politically charged nonsense such as this in the papers.
- inactive, on 09/24/2008, -7/+15So is it your contention that arctic ice is not shrinking and that polar bears aren't having any trouble finding food?
- rhavenn, on 09/24/2008, -5/+13It took thousands of years for the mammoth to become extinct. The polar bear has declined massively in less then 100 years due to human predation and environmental changes some natural, many unnaturally accelerated.
- linksus, on 09/24/2008, -2/+10Very Very bad idea.
Soon we will be digging stories about too many polar bears and no penguins left if they relocate them. - cawpin, on 09/24/2008, -4/+12***** the Sierra Club. They're a bunch of domestic terrorists in my book.
- blumer, on 09/24/2008, -0/+8Because it's copied and pasted from the article.
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