Where polar bears might go if climate change doesn't slow ( More Research ....UGH!)

Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 16, 2010 | Pete Spotts, Staff writer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

If climate change leads to ice collecting in one general area in the Arctic Ocean, it might be enough to provide a last 'refuge' for many Arctic inhabitants, including polar bears.

Polar bears are shown in this undated photograph from UCLA released to Reuters on Nov. 23.

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.

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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.

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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.

[Dick Bachert]

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...

[Hardraade]

“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>

[FourPeas]

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.

[WOBBLY BOB]

[TheOldLady]

Got global warming? Shave the bears.

[Bringbackthedraft]

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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for adding that,....haven’t seen it in awhile.

[mountainlion]

Polar bear populations have doubled since 1974 when severe hunting restrictions were in acted. Polar bears will be overcrowded and many will starve and decimate other wildlife in the area before turning on themselves and cannibalizing the population.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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• Max 20 hours ago

  Polar bears aren't going anywhere, because global warming, now called, "climate change," since it isn't occurring, is a myth. The world is getting colder you knuckle heads, not warmer. It's disastrous when ignorant imposters try to pretend to be scientists when they are totally unqualified to do so. Just indolent social misfits who want to get a buck the easy way without working for it by stirring up apprehension.

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• John 22 hours ago

  Articles like this should be labled "Junk Science".

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• Roy 5 hours ago

  Max and John You are the types of ignorant and selfish examples that make me ashamed of the human species.

[PATRIOT1876]

the Man-Polar bear-Pig population may completely die out if we don't give the government all of our money and our future!

What good is your future if the polar bears die!?!?!?!

[PATRIOT1876]

*Are these people still at it? Didn’t they get the message, it was all a BIG LIE.*

They continue to beat the broken drum

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for doing the work on the article.

[musicman]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Judging by current weather trends, I was thing Scotland, or maybe Paris.

[Gator113]

“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.

[vpintheak]

I guess these people haven’t been paying attention to the temps this past decade?

[SouthTexas]

I’ll volunteer my freezer, have heard they are pretty good.

[diogenes ghost]

I whacked a Grizzly in Alaska this year, have no hankering to go for a Polar bear, due to their habitat.

But as soon as they migrate down here to Nawth Flawaduh, I'm on it!

[EricT.]

Polar bear livers are so rich in vitamin A that they are toxic to humans.

[Doulos1]

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!