As Arctic winters warm, polar bears are faced with a troubling situation.
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First of all, DUSTIN, that was freakin HILARIOUS! I love people who get up on their soapbox to poo-poo on everything and everyone and then misspell a bunch of easy words. Now…I have to say this. Some of you are crazy! These people that are saying that what we do affects the earth are correct. And to whomever wrote that these animals will rip our faces off. Not sure about that and I have the brains to stay far enough away. BUT, that isn’t the point…we shouldn’t just not care because they are dangerous. I live in the city and i don’t need to worry that my face will ever be ripped off by a polar bear. As humans, so many of us will not give up any of our comforts for the sake of any other living thing. we pollute our water terribly because we HAVE to get that big ol’ boat and go fishin’ on saturday. We have to pollute our airways because we need that big ol’ SUV to get us around. If we aren’t willing to change then of COURSE extinction is the next logical step. We need to stop being so greedy and pull together. We are all humans, and in the end, we will ALL be affected the exact same way by our actions.
I have to wonder if “GOD” didn’t make a mistake by placing us (humans) on Mother Earth! Did you ever stop to think that this is a “PERFECT PLANET” with the exception of HUMANS? We have done more to destroy this planet in the last 300 years than NATURE has done in BILLIONS of years! We don’t belong here! Either we get it together (Stop ruining this planet) or we will go the way of the dinosaurs! I pray every night that “GOD” will open our hearts to what we should be doing to undo the damage we’ve done to this planet! Money and profits are all that’s important to big business and until that mode of thought changes or enough of us “SCREAM” nothing will change and we will be the cause of our own demise!!!
The footage at the end with the bear under water was staged.
This was a very sad clip, but should be a commercial to open the minds of everyone to be more careful about how we treat the environment and Mother Earth. The Polar bears are such beautiful and majestic animals. They command your attention, but demand respect. Sadly this is not the only effect of global warming.
Here’s a video of them killing innocent seal pups…
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/arctic-bears/video-polar-bears-hunt-for-seal-pups/783/
Maybe God was punishing them.
O.K. it is still 3-5 degrees cooler than it was during the Medieval Optimum (ever wonder why it’s called “Optimum”?)
It is still 2-3 degrees cooler than during the Early Roman Warm Period.
How is it that all of the Polar Bears did not die off during either one of those warm periods …. or, for that matter, any of the other warm (warmer than now) periods since the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago.
Do any of you understand that there was between 1-1/2 and 2 miles of ice over the State of Missouri?
Of course it’s getting warmer – that’s what happens at the end of an Ice Age …. otherwise the Ice age would not end ….. Duh!
….. and, BTW, 1975 – 5000 Polar Bears, 2005 – 25,000 Polar Bears.
Yep! Endangered fur shur!
I just want to say that for all the alarmists and warmists and complainers about man made pollution why the hell are you using a computer to write all of this on the internet when we know that manufactureing and distributing and throwing away our used computers puts much much toxic waste into our environment. Go back to using a pencil and paper morons!
We all should agree to disagree. We do not have the answers to our problems, the creator does. So now explain deforestation, growing deserts, raw sewage and oil in our oceans, ozone at dangerous levels, acid rain, toxic levels of chemicals in sea life, and the dreaded words global warming. Something is happening and man started it but can’t stop it. Man does not have the right to choose what animal lives and what animal dies. This earth was given to all life on this planet and mankind is doing its best to destroy it.
This is not the first time this planet has gone through a climate change ( according to many geologists ). That it is going through a change is obvious to any but the most ardent of the ‘ tree hugger haters’. From the studies I’ve have looked at regarding the emissions of the planet itself vs the pollution the human race causes I can not say that the human race is to blame. I wish I could, and can not shake the feeling that we have. Polar bears are nice to see at long range. At close range, not so nice, unless one is crazy enough want to be chewed up and perhaps killed. It has been demonstrated many, many, times that extinction is a part of nature, and nature is a cruel mother. If one loves nature…..then one must love it all. I see often the efforts of quite a few people to ‘ save ‘ a species and at the same time show a callous disregard for the effect those efforts have on other species. Example : Tigers reintroduced into areas where they have happily and frequently killed, and eaten people for thousands of years. Yet the people there are not allowed the means to defend themselves. Crocodiles, same thing. Lets turn them loose and take ourselves back to the other side of the world were there are none.
All this shows what a selfish, sorry and often illiterate lot that humans are. Also unappreciative, stiff-necked and irresponsible. Humans take everything for granted and each one KNOWS that s/he is correct, especially if they are wrong or just sarcastic. Obviously,many are also poor spellers. The bears are noble creatures, such a shame that humans are not.
what a bunch of propaganda!! dramatized.
The only movie I have ever wanted to buy, right now perfect gift for 17 yo. daughter, not available whats up?
отличные съемки! познавательно, спасибо!
that is so sad me and my friend is doing global warming