with global warming do you think there will be no more polar bear left in time???

Question

global warming is melting the ice bergs up north.....they float around on these to find food without them they can not hunt...what is your thoughts about this

Answer 1

Yes polar bears will become extinct, there is no doubt about it. Why? Because EVERYTHING, every single living species eventually goes extinct.

Thus far it's like 99.9% of creatures that have ever walked the earth have gone extinct. There are only a very few rare creatures that seem to be able to survive. A few insects, that live underground for the most part. Crocidiles who can also live underground (most people don't know that) and have a very, very slow metabolism. A few sharks and fish also.

When animals specialize, like bamboo eating panda's, eucalyptus eating koalas, and ice living/hunting polar bears, they slate themselves for a must faster extinction.

Black bears that can eat almost anything, and are not restricted to one type of environment do very well. They can live in the desert, forest, tropics, open plains, ect.

The more adaptable, the more different types of food it will eat, the better it's chance of survival.

We've already had the age of the reptiles. Then the age of the mamals. If we have another massive die off (like an astroid) do you know what "age" I predict?

The age of the rodents. They are small, they currently live underground, and many of them practice food storage, in the form of grains, and seeds. They will be able to get through a long "winter" of several years. Living underground they will be protected from massive fire, or cold that would hit the earth. They often live in colonies. These are all characteristics that will allow them to "rebuild" and recolonize the world.

Animals that are very specialized though, will deffinatly die out. That's what always happend to animals that specialize...they die out. So the earth is in a warming trend right now, and polar bears are not doing well. If we were in a cooling trend, we might instead be worried that all the non-migrating rapotors (birds of prey) since they would be starving to death, unable to find food in the deep snow.

Any animal that specializes is going to have a rough go of it, if their world is joggled in the slightest.

~Garnet
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Answer 2

At the moment I see no threat in the polar bear population. Their numbers are growing and have been since we established good conservation skills for the polar bears and animals alike. Polar bears have survived through many warm periods before and I'm sure they will survive this one as well. People just say the polar bears are in danger when clearly they are not, at least not at the moment and we don't even know what the future climate holds for us. It could cool off in the next 30 yrs!!

Answer 3

Not anytime soon, by soon I mean a few thousands years, if I remember correctly there are 19 subpopulations, of those only two of these groups are decreasing and account for about 16% of the total population, ten are stable about 45% of the total population, two are increasing for about 13% of the population and the rest we don’t know if they are stable, increasing or decreasing.

But, if you believe in man-made global warming what better way to raise money then with a nice cute polar bear cub, and old Al Gore lying about global warming causing polar bears to drown, DROWN I SAY, DID YOU HEAR THAT THEY DIED oh my god don’t let the baby polar bears drown SEND MONEY TO HELP. Of course when you look into the drowning polar bears you find there was a HUGE STORM and the polar bears drowned because of the storm, but you can’t raise millions over a storm, and Al Gore is never wrong.

But don’t let facts get in the way of a good story or a way to raise money.

Answer 4

The "crisis" hasn't started yet. We're just in the early stages of detecting the long-term trends (which scientists began to notice in the 70's). Think of the climate as a massive ocean going freighter. You can't suddenly decide to stop or change direction on a large freighter with a lot of inertia. Likewise, we can't simply wait until the climate crisis actually occurs and then decide "let's drop the temperature 1.5 C now". It will take decades to change the energy forms we need to survive from greenhouse gas emitting ones to clean ones.

Answer 5

Yes they will probably die off in the next 100 years. The effects of global warming are far more damaging than that. The climate has already begun to change dramatically! We,as humans, depended on a STABLE environment to produce all our food. We are at the top of the food chain,and so is the polar bear. What happens to it,happens to us! Everything is interconnected in the Web of Life here on this tiny planet!

Answer 6

Ducks don't freeze into a lake with the onset of winter. Polar bears won't float around on ice bergs if it warms up.

Mother Nature's creatures are smarter and more adaptable than we think. Don't worry.

Answer 7

It's very possible, but we just don't know yet.

In the past creatures like polar bears have adapted to changes in climate. But this change is far faster than any past change they dealt with, and it may be too fast for them to adapt.

The answer, of course, is to slow global warming down. That's what scientists and world leaders are working on.

LAWRENCE - The problem is that their hunting patterns are based on the ice. It's not that easy for those to change.

Answer 8

Right now it's winter. The ice caps are growing and there's plenty of room for the polar bears.

Polar bear population has increased over the last 50 years due to conservation. The polar bears aren't in any danger.

Answer 9

there are two sides to the global warming issue. do more research on it. al gore just might be wrong.p.s. of all the creatures that have ever existed on this planet----99% are now extinct. fact!

Answer 10

Human made global warming is a fact, not something you can beleave or not beleave.

Read the thousands articles in this forum, please, and stop this endless global warming questions!