Sentences with phrase «global polar bear»

Figure 2: Global polar bear population status assessment even better than this.

• Abundant prey and adequate sea ice in spring and early summer since 2007 appear to explain why global polar bear numbers have not declined, as might have been expected as a result of low summer sea ice levels.

• Global polar bear numbers have been stable or risen slightly since 2005, despite the fact that summer sea ice since 2007 hit levels not expected until mid-century: the predicted 67 % decline in polar bear numbers did not occur.

If nothing is done to reverse possible scenarios outlined in the report, scientists warn that the global polar bear population — estimated at about 8,500 — could start to see significant trouble.

If you prefer to go with reality, here's the good news from Susan Crockford, who puts the global polar bear population at a very healthy 26,000.

Rather, global polar bear numbers have been stable or slightly improved.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

Not exact matches

«Each purchase of a white Coca - Cola can supports: false testimony on global warming; perpetration of the myth about endangered polar bears... activism to fight the development of affordable coal, oil and natural gas; hypocrites who won't follow their own recommendations; and expansion of already excessive environmental regulations.

In an age in which emotional narratives often trump facts, the polar bear became the icon of global warming hysteria.

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

As Gore shows with a litany of statistics, maps, and charts — not to mention the film's stark images of drowning polar bears, crumbling ice caps, a Katrina - lashed New Orleans, and drunken trees sliding sideways on melting permafrost — global warming is really happening.

The IUCN website also points out that, while the polar bear has come to symbolize the impact of global warming on wildlife, many other species are similarly affected, including the ringed seal and well - known species like the beluga whale, arctic fox, koala and emperor penguin.

It's sad but true that life is getting harder for polar bears due to global warming.

It draws attention to the effects that global warming is having in diminishing glaciers, leaving the future of polar bears decidedly uncertain.

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated global warming.

The Obama administration mulls whether the plight of the polar bear should prompt efforts to combat global warming

But places like the ancient icy oasis of Svalbard, should they endure relatively unchanged through human - induced global warming, may not be enough to save the polar bear this time.

But it could leave the polar bear at risk from an influx of infections as global temperatures rise.

If adaptation for survival in the Arctic environment has led to a less versatile immune system, then Arctic species such as the polar bear may be at risk from an influx of pathogens as global temperatures rise, the researchers warn.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

They concluded that, based on a median value across all scenarios, there's a high probability of a 30 percent decline in the global population of polar bears over the next three to four decades, which supports listing the species as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

«With most [species], we can identify a localized threat, but the threat to the polar bear comes from global influences on sea ice.»

Although the polar bear's listing does recognize the impact of changing global conditions, the department is quick to point out that it does not assign blame for these conditions on anyone in particular.

The seller noted that the pelt was «imported from Canada, and it's the last chance to have such a polar bear skin since the species is endangered due to the global warming.»

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told a crowd recently that efforts to include the polar bear on the endangered species list are based on «these global warming studies that now we're seeing (is) a bunch of snake oil science.»

Global warming has caused big problems for polar bears, which depend on sea ice for access to the ocean so they can hunt seals and other prey.

Lead author Nicholas Pilfold, now a postdoctoral fellow at San Diego Zoo Global, said «the pattern of long - distance swimming by polar bears in the Beaufort Sea shows the fingerprint of climate change.

(This status allowed the Administration to create a special rule exempting greenhouse gas emissions — which are, through global warming, melting the artic sea ice used by the polar bears for hunting — from regulation under the Endangered Species Act.)

Rapid global warming is said to be ringing the death knell for polar bears, by melting their icy hunting grounds.

Global warming also puts stress on wildlife such as walruses and polar bears as they lose their habitat areas.

POLAR bears have patrolled the planet's icy regions for millions of years longer than previously thought — riding out several episodes of global warming in that time.

To date therefore, a combination of insufficient resolution in marine and terrestrial sediments bearing the YTT and a lack of YTT ash in the polar ice cores has prevented precise evaluation of the YTT's impact on global climate and hominin populations.

Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

«The polar bear was the first species protected under the Endangered Species Act solely because of threats from global warming,» said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.

«The listing not only raised public awareness that climate change is already driving vulnerable species like the polar bear toward extinction, but also forced the Bush administration to adopt the consensus view of the world's scientists on global warming.»

Because they depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the polar bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.

For Hannes Jaenicke, tough - guy actor and animal welfare campaigner, polar bears are more than a symbol of global warming and shrinking Arctic ice.

Whether filming in HD or with a hidden camcorder, actor and animal - rights activist Hannes Jaenicke aims to reveal the global chain that leads to the extinction of the most amazing animals, such as polar bears and sharks.

«Report from the North Pole» Our polar bear hosts sing of the dangers of global warming, while their cub reporter learns how other bears around the world are affected.

Finally, pupils are asked to think about the problems polar bears are facing and to contemplate the bigger picture concerning global warming.

You hear things all of the time about how the glaciers are melting, global warming, polar bears floating away on icebergs — and all the other buzzwords about glaciers — but I never really took the time to look up the definition of a glacier.

Craig asks about polar bear reporting in the Telegraph: Polar bear expert barred by global warmists

It is not just be the polar bears that will suffer when the global climate is disrupted.

He tells us global warming will turn hurricanes into super storms, produce droughts, wipe out the polar bears and result in bleaching of coral reefs.

«The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday, saying it must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming.»

Promoting polar bears as endangered due to global warming is one of the dumbest ideas the environmental movement has come up with so far.

Thus, articles that link the loss of Arctic sea ice to global warming are acceptable, and any news article on Arctic sea ice will generally touch on the role of global warming — usually with a mention for polar bears, which are indeed cute (not too cuddly, tho).

From the standpoint of doing something about global warming, the uncertainties are irrelevant unless we don't care what kind of world we leave for future generations - of humans and polar bears.

Let's see that one fact, and four polar bears drowned in a storm does not equal a fact supporting «global warming.»

Mitchell Taylor, a Canadian expert on polar bears who was in the specialists» group for many years, told some reporters that he was excluded this year because he disputes that the bears are in danger and that human - caused global warming poses a substantial threat to them.