Posted on 12/17/2010 2:25:53 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
By midcentury, the northern islands of Canada and the north coast of Greenland may represent the only remaining region in the Arctic where polar bears and the marine animals that sustain them can survive if greenhouse-gas emissions continue to climb at anywhere near their current levels.
Alan D. Wilson/Reuters
By midcentury, the northern islands of Canada and the north coast of Greenland may represent the only remaining region in the Arctic where polar bears and the marine animals that sustain them can survive if greenhouse-gas emissions continue to climb at anywhere near their current levels.
That's the scenario a team of US and Canadian scientists came up with in looking at the prospects for Arctic habitats if greenhouse-gas emissions follow a business-as-usual track through the end of the century.
The research, outlined at a briefing Thursday during the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco, stands as a bookend to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature, which suggests that sustainable populations of the bears could be preserved around the Arctic if greenhouse-gas emissions are aggressively curbed and if traditional wildlife-management approaches are rigorously applied.
IN PICTURES: Climate change and animals
The work in Nature "is talking about what happens if we act to reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions," said Stephanie Pfirman, a marine geologist at Barnard College in New York as well as a researcher with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.
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They’ll head for Algore’s palatial 10,000 square foot manse in Nashville.
Since he keeps it around 50 degrees in the summer, they should be quite comfy.
MEMO TO ALGORE: Keep them well-fed. On second thought...
“Please ship us all to DC, we have heard the land is filled with huge, highly visible and blubbery creatures which may be even better food than walrus.”</Polarbear>
I just can’t bring myself to read this. My suggestion for where the polar bears should go is that every member of PETA should adopt one and keep it in their garden/back yard.
Got global warming? Shave the bears.
Well they could come to Florida, we had 27 degrees here in the SW portion. They can lay under the palm trees and stay cool. Lots of edible wild stuff running around our yards for them to eat.
Thanks for adding that,....haven’t seen it in awhile.
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What good is your future if the polar bears die!?!?!?!
They continue to beat the broken drum
Thanks for doing the work on the article.
Judging by current weather trends, I was thing Scotland, or maybe Paris.
“US and Canadian scientists...” There is no such thing.
Real scientists became extinct a long time ago.
Today, we have politically driven grant writers and grant receivers... not scientists.
I guess these people haven’t been paying attention to the temps this past decade?
I’ll volunteer my freezer, have heard they are pretty good.
But as soon as they migrate down here to Nawth Flawaduh, I'm on it!
Polar bear livers are so rich in vitamin A that they are toxic to humans.
Or we can shoot their fat arses and eat them and make a nice rug for the hearth. Come on down it, will save money for the trip!
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