Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/15/2010 10:27:53 AM PST by NormsRevenge
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Two groups of scientists are suggesting a sliver of hope for the future of polar bears in a warming world.
A study published online Wednesday rejects the often used concept of a "tipping point," or point of no return, when it comes to sea ice and the big bear that has become the symbol of climate change woes. The study optimistically suggests that if the world dramatically changed its steadily increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, a total loss of critical summer sea ice for the bears could be averted.
Another research group projects that even if global warming doesn't slow—a more likely near-future scenario—a thin, icy refuge for the bears would still remain between Greenland and Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Polar bears could survive on persisting ice - Nicola Jones
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/news.2010.675.html
The stupidity of the AP never ceases to amaze.
Must be a Lefty genetic trait to double-down when you've suffered a humiliating shellacking.
Damn, they just don’t give up.
A sliver of hope for Polar Bears?
That’s like saying there’s a sliver of hope for bacteria, or cockroaches. Polar bears are doing fine.
Polar bears are one of nature’s most adaptable creatures.
Their numbers have steadily increased over the years since the sixties.
The polar bear population is not decreasing.
Enviro nuts will use any pretext regardless of its outrageousness or falsity or complete lack of scientific proof to advance their misguided idealistic binge cause.
These nut job enviro nazis will never give up.
I am thinking this needs a barf alert.
Good news for Polar bears, the freezing cold in the rest of the world will kill off humans thus reducing the carbon footprint and causing the ice to reform. They’re saved!
Or just airlift them to the UK.
Mike
I live in the UK.
I think a few Polar bears - perhaps a thousand or so - would have a salutary effect, especially if you released them near the CRU.
“Scientists”: “It’s not too late yet to spout more ‘global warming’ bull$h1t...”
How’s that global warming over there? ;)
I think we can solve this problem without endangering the planet. Simply build electric generating windmills all across Alaska and Canada. Then use the electricity to run refrigerators without any doors. The resultant cold air from the refrigerators would stop the melting of the ice. Simple solution.
Since it is so freaking cold here in the Ohio Valley, I have started a polar bear relocation charity. To donate, go to www.savemyfurryass.org. We will be relocating polar bears from the warm, sunny Arctic to the cold, frozen Ohio Valley. As an added bonus, this relocation program will also solve our deer overpopulation problem. Since the deer have never seen polar bears, they should be easy prey. The polar bears can feast on all the deer they want, as well as the homeless suffering from six years of Democrat controlled Congress. If food starts to run short, I plan on putting up traps for more food. At the local Walmart will be large boxes with signs that read: Enter if you voted for Obama, free prize inside!
Well, if the ice melts then the bears will just move south and start eating Canucks. Who would think they would go extinct? As long as there is something to eat (preferably registered DemocRATS) the Polar Bear will survive.
A polar bear is seen at a zoo. Climate change is pushing Arctic mammals to mate with cousin species, in a trend that could be pushing the polar bear and other iconic animals towards extinction, biologists said on Wednesday. (AFP/File/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)
What did the PBs do when AGW topped out back 4,500+ years ago?
When it is warmer the artic can only support so many Polar Bears..
When it is cooler (more ice) it can support more Bears..
Course you would have to PimP SLAP a number of "scientists" to get them to grasp that..
The warming in December and January is going to be pretty bad though. Our pipes will warm solid, our old people will be frozen to death by heat-stroke and so on. We didn't listen!
I'm not worried so much about the weather. I worry about the irreparable damage the cold - sorry, make that the unseasonal warmth - will do to the psyches of those in my company who rely on work in 'sustainable transport', LOL.
Polar Bear populations have increased four-fold in the last 50 years.
11 of 13 known populations are thriving and only 2 have fewer numbers over the last 10 years.
These enviro-whackos are making stuff up and expect us to believe it.
Love it. Hehehee.
and those 2 populations were around Baffin where it was coldest!
between the years 800 and 1200 AD there were as something called the Medieval Warm Period...which warmer than it is now (followed by the little ice age caused by the maunder minimum). during that time enough of Greenland was exposed as to make agriculture possible along the southern coast of Greenland, which can not be done today because of the colder temps today...
My question is, where did the Polar Bears go back then?
It is not too late for them to freeze to death. Global cooling is going on.
Yo, SYF:
I’ve been trying to get my climate treatment (CACA) to Monckton (he seems like the kind of guy who would get a kick out of it).
Does he have a website? The only thing I find is the vicarious WattsUp site.
Got any ideas?
Aw, man, not this shit again.
Great, cause I really want a rug.
Those poor bears. We should send them a fatted AlGore for Christmas.
LLS
Plenty of ice for the bears in the offing.
That was before Darwin, so they hadn't evolved yet.
We’ve got pictures, carry on.
The evil enviro scum is nopt that concerned with Manatees (sea cows) in Florida freezing to death.
They used to get hotter water from powerplant discharge into canals which kept it nice and warm in the winter for the manatees. the power plants were forced to cool their water and the manatees are not freezing to death.
Corrupt leftist scum.
Scummy liberal newspapers and ALL of TV using that same “iconic” sh** in every article. Everything today is “iconic” - lazy propagandists.
OMG, that’s hilarious on so many levels!
Typo. I meant to say the power plants have to cool their discharage water now. This means the canals in Florida by the plants the manatees used to go to are much colder than before. The poor manatees are freezing to death now.
Thank ******g environmentalists.
Typo. I meant to say the power plants have to cool their discharage water now. This means the canals in Florida by the plants the manatees used to go to are much colder than before. The poor manatees are freezing to death now.
Thank ******g environmentalists.
I got news for these scientists, the world is very, very cold right now, should be a great hunt for the polar bears on the expanding icepack
Teddy’s car must have made a wrong turn. LOL! Hilarious.
Considering that there are now more polar bears than at any time since the end of the last glaciation, I’m guessing they can be saved.
The question is, can global warming scientists be saved?
Scientists—it’s still not too late to jump off a cliff and save us from your carbon emissions.
>>The stupidity of the AP never ceases to amaze.<<
especially considering this story today:
Little Ice Age And Expanding Arctic Ice -“Climate Forecasts Will Have To Be Thrown In The Dustbin”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2643101/posts
I sense some contradictory perspectives here.
It can’t be too late — otherwise the shakedown is over. Just as any clever doomsday prophet knows; don’t give a hard date. “The end is near”, but not so near that a nice cash contribution won’t forestall the inevitable.
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