Climate Deniers look to the North to see the real thing

 

 

 

 

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National Wildlife Federation report:

Climate change is the biggest threat wildlife will face this century. The polar bear is officially, seriously endangered. Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change, polar bears were listed as a threatened species in the US under the Endangered Species Act in May 2008. In the following ten years the situation has become more critical.

If polar bears, our 'canaries in the coal mine' that is Earth, go extinct, it will be because they lost their habitat entirely. The Arctic Sea ice will have melted, and that will happen because of increasing temperatures at the poles, where the rise in temperature is happening twice as fast as anywhere else in the world.

Their present situation:

 Bears living on the Arctic islands of Svalbard shows that they are now reproducing at a rate of one-fifth of their normal rate.Given these dismal statistics, scientists now predict that the global population of polar bears could fall from 20,000 at the present time to fewer than 5,000 by 2100 — and beyond that no one knows, but it looks bleak for these majestic and beautiful animals - the world's largest land carnivors.