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- pwallroth, on 10/10/2007, -4/+58Polar Bears: Most Scientists Dead By 2025
- leffunov, on 10/10/2007, -10/+31That's sad. Polar Bears are my favorite animals.
- kenvsryu, on 10/10/2007, -14/+34I better get a coat made now.
- ekin09, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22I think all the comments so far have been made by 12 year old kids who didn't bother to read the article.... Wait, this is Digg, never mind.
- xerexes1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Adaption or extinction. They could change their diet from seals to humans.
- cnot3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19I like turtles.
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17Well, you've got 40 years to enjoy them, so it's no big deal.
- harvinator24, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Colbert will be happy
- andergriff, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9So how did polar bears survive 100,000 years ago, the last time the polar ice melted?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10Colbert was right.
- sUGArDawg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10Osama has a Digg account??
- lhsonic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7@ alciadanet... you're a retard. the bears aren't dying from the heat, they are dying because of the loss of hunting grounds, breeding grounds and general habitat. Bears may be able to adapt to warmer temperatures gradually, but combined with a loss of the prior mentioned items, polar bears will die off faster than they can reproduce.
- stormgren, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Try 65 million BCE instead of just typing random numbers.
- jugger74, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6If anything they will eat from the dumps like they do for half the year now anyways. This is just another smoke show for the bleeding heart no minds that they know will fall for this crap.
- xOKxWhy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7But they're so dangerously cute
- nosecohn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4From the second article you referenced:
"Ignore the bears for a moment and look at the evidence for sea ice change: NASA is a key player in looking at the actual decreases in sea ice. It is an easy matter to put the dots together: no habitat, no seals; no seals, no bears. This never was an issue of polar bears alone. The only effective conservation approach is to protect the habitat and this is an issue of climate change. You can distort the issue any way you so desire. At the end of the day, the sea ice is disappearing. Take away the habitat and the species follows shortly thereafter (or before)." - JerodSlay, on 10/10/2007, -8/+12Take a look at the BBC and Discovery Channel's "Planet Earth" series. One installment, the "Ice Worlds" I think it was, follows a male polar bear who has to swim quite a bit more than he had to ten years ago, because the ice melts sooner and sooner every year. Eventually he comes across a small island with Walruses on it. Walruses are some of the biggest animals in the world, and under normal conditions, a polar bear would never try to take down one of these beasts. But because he is so desperate, you watch him try to attack a number of these.
** spoiler **
He ends up unable to kill one because he is so tired, and the sustains a massive leg wound from the tusk of a Walrus. The last shots of the scene are of the male polar bear laying down to die, as the Walruses resume normal behavior, no longer threatened by the dying polar bear.
I watched the entire series, and it is truely a moving scene. It really brings global warming to life, or should I say death. - cnot3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Can't we just eat them both? Ever tried bear stuffed with seal?
- abid786, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"OH SNAP"
And this was another one that was made by a 12 year old kid. - kriminalintent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Colbert 1 Bears 0
- MrSteamTank, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Tis a shame that these stories are COMPLETE lies. Guess what?
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=1ea8233f-14da-4a44-b839-b71a9e5df868
Even the counter argument against this
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/ask-the-experts/population/
basically has the scientists admitting they doesn't have enough data. Could it possibly be that these environmentalist groups are making wild guesses to support their claims?
People have to understand that most people will say whatever gets them the most money. If environmentalist groups said "the polar bear is fine" they would get less funding. So of course they'll say they are disappearing and if we don't get them X amount of money they'll go extinct.
I just want people to understand that the sky isn't always falling. Sometimes(usually often) situations are better than they appear in the media. - renegadeafk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Not Really
- Ransak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You didn't read the whole article that you linked.
- Memnochxx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I wish I could see a species that was able to evolve within one lifespan.
- onedoubles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why? Are they going to outlaw zoos in the future? I think that's a bit preposterous
- Memnochxx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Polar bears in zoos don't seem to die of heat exhaustion.
- spucky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What is your level of education? I'm betting on no college level biology. Predictive science is still just science. We use models to try to make accurate predictions of events that happen in the future. You use all available data and develop models, test those models on historical data and then try to predict in the future (I'm betting also that you are not so good at the stock market where this kind of stuff is used all the time.)
As new data is discovered, that is fed into the models and if they don't work right, you adjust the model. It's not perfect. If the weather says rain, do you take an umbrella thinking that is a good bet even if sometimes you don't need it? - rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2False. Historically incorrect and long debunked.
The ice shield over Greenland is hundreds of thousands of years old, and over 80% of the land mass underneath is rock (or, in the far north, permafrost).
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/13/22437/993 - anarchytv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the real culprit.. McPolar Burgers
- mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They will be fine, Santa Claus and the bears will adapt..
- ffleming, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Polar bears can get a job in an unheated canning factory like everybody else! No handouts for ursines!
- DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1As I said above, the Asheboro zoo in North Carolina has a polar bear and we saw it sunning on a very hot day. Sure it had access to water but don't most polar bears? I seriously doubt it had an air conditioned room to go into.
- MURDERTRON, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Shouldn't you first ask the AP for theirs?
- crashflow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that takes out dogs, cats, pythons and hamsters then...
- dinatron72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The polar bear population is actually on the increase in Alaska and many parts of Canada!
http://newsbusters.org/node/12694 - demicritter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1As long as scientists are paid to write grants you'll continue to see the hyperbolic predictions. It's the only sure way they can get more money year and after year. Hang something on global warming, indicate extinction is key and they agency will be funded very well. Global warming = Money for scientists who don't otherwise have any means for generating capital. (FACT)
- Fragnarg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1your mom didn't read
- Fragnarg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Soon the arctic will be safe to walk.
- nosecohn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Turducken!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken - mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The hamster and I come to a tie most of the time.
- phoenix78, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The Dharma Initiative better start getting them acquainted with islands...fast
- Argus2m, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Please tell me how they are going to die off if the population is on the increase.
- crazywarthog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dear smucks. Polar bears have survived countless global warming and global cooling cycles on our ever changing planet. That is why they are here today. Even a dumb smuck can figure this out ... well maybe not !
Keep on drinking Al Gore's kool aid and stay a dumb smuck ! - hoovcluck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1HALF!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1All species will eventually die off. The stronger will adapt and survive to the constantly changing climate of earth. We humans are the most arrogant species on earth. We think that we can actually change the climate significantly.
- ffleming, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Screw the war on terror and the war on drugs, we need a war on bears!
- abid786, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It's really sad how ignorant some people are. Instead of doing something about the evident global warming, some people are still arguing whether it is true or not...
- wassim2k, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I thought the article would be about system administrators who spend most of their time in air conditioned server rooms.
- Sharky35, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I better move up that polar bear hunting trip I have planned next year.
- abid786, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"TREES AND PLANTS LIVE OFF CO2 AND MAKE OXYGEN FOR US !!!!"
However, if you burn down the trees and don't plant more, what do you think is going to happen, idiot? -
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