What is going to happen to the polar bears when the ice caps melt?

Answer 1

They will either adapt to the changes and become a inland/shore animal, or they unfortunately will become extinct.

Answer 2

Although there may be an increase in polar bear death if the ice caps melt, I do not think they will necessarily go extinct. During the summer months, they actually migrate south and can be seen far inland. Those polar bears that are more likely to go further south or less likely to go far into the arctic ocean will most likely be the survivors.

If the ice caps melt partially and especially fully, well, it will be just like it was before the last ice age. I am not too worried.

Answer 3

If the Arctic ice melts (not an ice cap) then Polar bears will struggle. There is already evidence that they are struggling, as the ice they live on is too soft to support their weight. It is most likely that they will die out in the next few centuries, except for ones left in zoos. If the ice caps melt, then Polar bears will not be affected, since ice caps are areas of ice less than 50,000 km square, NOT the ice covering the poles.

Answer 4

Question? In any event from when the earth was first formed then separated and climates change, then is not the changing of climates with the polar caps melting just natural selection for the Polar Bears? Their time to not be on this planet out? As was the dinosaurs or whichever creature was take from the earth by natural selection, so no matter what happens there will only be a few left, unless you can relocate them all, personally I think it will be natural selection for the polar bears.

Answer 5

According to National Geographic and Discovery Channel,polar bears will become extinct if the ice caps continue to melt at such a rapid pace.

Answer 6

The polar bears will all die. According to science, if all the ice in the world melts, the water will be flooded with water as high as about three-fourths of the Eiffel Tower. Polar bears are mammals and they cannot breathe underwater nor can they float.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, it is ALREADY starting to happen:

"Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts

SCIENTISTS have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf. "

See link for the rest of the story. Sad!

Answer 8

no longer something. it relatively is a delusion. The action picture you have considered of the "stranded" polar undergo became especially filmed to make you sense sorry for the "adverse undergo". Polar bears are important swimmers. what isn't nicely understand is that, after that action picture became filmed, the "stranded" polar undergo jumped into the water, and swan some hundred ft to the forged ice cap, which became no longer seen in the action picture. The action picture became RIGGED to make you think of the undergo became stranded, yet particularly he became no longer. there'll continually be a polar ice cap, and the polar bears would be in simple terms wonderful, see you later by using fact the fur hunters do no longer shoot them!

Answer 9

The poles will not melt. Last week we broke the low temperature record which was 22. The new record is now 19. This record had been there for 100 yrs.

Answer 10

They'll get extinct:

if it becomes less cold, they cannot start their winter sleep and as a consequence they need to continue eating. Since it's almost winter now, the ice is closed so they cannot catch fish. There fore they'll descend into Russia and other countries to look for food where locals will kill them because they're a public danger.