On the ground in Churchill: Polar bears fight for survival as ice disappears

[bigplinker]

What should be the overarching point is that polar bears evolved and exist as an ice age species. There is no reason to expect that they would continue to exist once the ice age ends.

Yes, they are doomed to extinction. So what?

Same could be said for our species, DEFINITELY our society, as far as surviving the inevitable end of the inter glacial period. Which in the past 3 million or so years of ice ages that Earth has experienced, usually lasts between 10-15000 years.
Guess where we are at, as far as of the timeline of an interglacial period?

Now the scientists are saying that, thanks to global warming, that interglacial period has been extended indefinitely.
I put to you that global warming might be misdirection.
That an ice age will kill us off a lot quicker than global warming.
Would certainly explain the rabid push for population control.
Considering how the majority of the world's bread baskets exist in parts of the world that are 2 more months of snow awry from not having a growing season at all.
We're not looking at global warming.
We're looking at changing weather patterns of a 100000 year cyclic nature, that ends with north of 40° covered in 2 miles of ice.
Just a thought mind you.

 

[Juster]

According to Wikipedia, "A comparison of the nuclear genome of polar bears with that of brown bears revealed a different pattern, the two forming genetically distinct clades that diverged approximately 603,000 years ago". Temperatures have varied a fair bit, but we still have Nanook.

 

[BattleRife]

Same could be said for our species, DEFINITELY our society, as far as surviving the inevitable end of the inter glacial period. Which in the past 3 million or so years of ice ages that Earth has experienced, usually lasts between 10-15000 years.
Guess where we are at, as far as of the timeline of an interglacial period?

Homo Sapiens has proven to be widely adaptable to almost any natural environment. Another glacial period would pose almost no threat to our survival, unless it went to the "snowball earth" extreme.

Polar bears are not so adaptable, they are highly dependent on ice age conditions. If this inter-glacial turns out to mark the end of the Quaternary Ice Age, polar bears are done, except as zoo specimens. Again, so what? Ice ages, and the species that evolve to survive them, have never lasted forever before, why would anyone expect this one to?

Human beings are just being arrogant in assuming the world is supposed to have ice at the poles because that is all our species has ever known. Newsflash: for 80% of the planet's history, it has not had perennial ice caps.

 

[Bushbasher]

I worked up in ft Severn and there are more bears there than you can shake a stick at
Thes ####ing tree huggers should go hang out with the bears sometime