The article begins off by saying that the polar bear has been added as “threatened species” under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. It was added to the list because of the melting ice due to global warming, this is why the polar bear was listed as “threatened”. It has the chance to become extinct, because the ice is a vital part of a polar bears life. The decision to add them to the endangered list was presented by a computer model that states that if nothing is done, 30% of the sea ice will be gone, in 2050. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, stated during a press conference “the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=polar-bears-threatened
Yeah thats sad... we should do something about it because i wish that in the future my kids could see polar bears in real life not only pictures in the book. I heard that that some kind of penguins going to vanish by 2050 too.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is sad, I wish the same thing as well. and the government is not helping at all, when you read another of my article about Obama, he is just going to destroy the homes of the polar bears.
ReplyDeleteYeah i read that, how he could do stuff like this? does he actually care about our world?
ReplyDeleteumm waht could we do to stop global worming or is it to late to try and stop it. because i think that we need to save them or at least try beacuse if we dont then there wont be anymore of the polar bears left
ReplyDeleteHe is looking to fuel the economy by finding more oil, but he is up against environmentalists that will not let him do that. They will fight to save the polar bears.
ReplyDeletewe should find all polar bears and poot them in some big, nice surrounding spacial for them and feed them. Olny this way can save them.
ReplyDeletethat's a good idea! But that would be very hard to complete. We, as a people, need to increase the amount of people interested in the topic. This way more people will care and fight for the cause.
ReplyDelete@Kim: I personally believe that the earth is on a cycle between the ice age and and a time of heating up. We are still in that heating up period, and we should not try anything, the environment will regulate it's self. How did we come out the last ice age? Things had to melt, things heated up.
ReplyDeletetrue but waht will happen to the polar bears if they dont have ice or cold temps due to the heat and things mealting?
ReplyDeleteThey polar bears will become extinct, sadly.
ReplyDeleteexactly so why dont people try to stop it if they can so the polar bears dont die. the best they coulddo is at least try right ?
ReplyDeleteYes, all we can do it try.
ReplyDeleteso how would you get people to try to stop global worming?
ReplyDeleteGet people to form a fan base. and then popularity will rise. Thus increasing the power of the people.
ReplyDelete