ok so the polar bears are drowning. Who cares!!! They deserve to die if they cant swim or make it to a place to where they can be safe. The polar bears that die are weak and thus this is natural selection. Survival of the fittest! So it is a natural proccess just like this global warming mumbo jumbo.
2007-09-27 05:15:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Polar Bears are not in trouble.
Here are the facts:
"Polar bears are abundant and their population in Alaska is healthy in size and distribution.
The polar bear continues to occupy its entire historical range.
Polar bears and their habitats are well managed and protected by international and domestic agreements, conservation programs, regulatory mechanisms, and laws, including the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
There is a current lack of science demonstrating in a reliable manner that polar bears are likely to become extinct in the foreseeable future."
The only bears in trouble are the anamated ones used in Algore's movie "Truth"
(Isn't if funny that a movie aclled Truth uses cartoons for fact?)
2007-09-27 06:45:48 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Polar bears are extremely good swimmers and have survived previous periods of warming and they should survive this one. I am like a broken record, but we have been warming for thousands of years. The polar bears environment has been shrinking and is part of natural trends. It will be pushed into environments for which it is evolved and if and when the warmer environments migrate north, the polar bear will have to migrate north or adapt or die. I am pretty sure it will be OK. It is doing very well now. To those that assume that no polar bears were drowning before and starving, I would suggest an extreme naivete of how nature works. Most polar bears starve or are killed usually when they are young or old.
2007-09-27 12:35:22 · answer #2 · answered by JimZ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Polar bear population went from 5000 in the 60s to 25000 now. There are two sub-populations of polar bears which are down, 15 polar bears lost by natural causes and 49 hunted down and shot.
2007-09-27 15:28:48 · answer #3 · answered by jjprime 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Species are becoming extinct at the rate of 3 per hour, greater than any mass extinction. The polar bears will just have to wait their turn. I assume you feel all of these are also examples of "natural" selection? So when your name ultimately reaches the top of the list, that will be OK, right?
Actually Jello, not everyone shares your level of interest in cartoons.
2007-09-27 13:10:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not natural selection if it's caused by us. You may not especially care about polar bears, but they are just an early warning sign of the desperate problems we are creating for our environment. What will happen when fish populations follow the polar bear? When hungry nations see all their crops fail? When the great rivers of the world dry up in the summer? This is serious stuff. Broaden your vision and try to understand what's happening to your world.
2007-09-27 12:37:51 · answer #5 · answered by TG 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Natural process? Global warming...a natural process? Are you high or something? Global warming is our fault, it is the human's fault. Natural process is...well...natural. Global warming isn't.
And as for the Polar Bear thing, just shut up. I can't even start to imagine how many things are wrong with that statement.
2007-09-27 16:50:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Natural selection is slow process, mass extinction is when environmental conditions change so fast than evolution mechanisms cannot keep up.
2007-09-27 13:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by PD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural selection has to do with organisms selecting others with strong traits to breed with. It has NOTHING to do with environmental extinction.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
2007-09-27 12:47:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to Inbreeding! Population: YOU.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard anybody say. Go read a book and listen to scientific facts before you decide to embarrass yourself by voicing your opinions. By your logic, you should be drowning with them.
2007-09-27 12:37:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋