So much for the Polar Bear :/

[MrAngryFace]

"The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears," according to Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. "They are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the ice melts and global warming transforms the Arctic, polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they don't have access to their usual food sources."

Scientists have noticed increasing reports of starving Arctic polar bears attacking and feeding on one another in recent years. In one documented 2004 incident in northern Alaska, a male bear broke into a female's den and killed her.

In May, the U.S. Department of Interior listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act. In a news release, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne stated, "loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat. This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species."

[Tauntaun]

I'd love a polar bear carpet, can you imagine how soft that would be?

[Brehvolution]

Where are the polar bear cannibalism kits when they are needed most?

[Phoenix Dark]

Time for Dharma to step in

[Powerslave]

I kill polar bears for fun.

[xnikki118x]

I love polar bears and the whole thing makes me sad.

[MrAngryFace]

its a shame what evidence people still may need to believe global warming is a problem. Do they need Polar Bears on their lawn killing each other?

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I'm hopeful for conservation efforts.  They always seem to kick in for the cute endangered animals.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Probably too late.  I doubt they can reverse 150 years of industrialization caused CO2 in just a couple years.  With the scant measures taken now, by the time it gets corrected, the Polar Bear will be long since extinct.

Probably better off just relocating them as many as possible to zoos and other protected habitat areas.

[Powerslave]

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[Positive Touch]

vote palin/mccain so that they can finally wipe out the polar bear menace in 2010!

Probably better off just relocating them as many as possible to zoos and other protected habitat areas.

two of the three polar bears at the local zoo died last year

[Bildi]

I kill polar bears for fun.

That's so irresponsible.  I kill them for sport.

[Cormacaroni]

These animals have always been one or two bad seasons away from extinction.  Their on-going existence is so reliant on very particular weather conditions.

and yet they've lived for how many years? get real

[MrAngryFace]

not sure he's refuting the idea of global warming causing their issues, so much as pointing out the delicate balance that is required.

[DJ_Tet]

The polar bear section of Planet Earth was really hard to watch.  Basically they detailed this very problem and the outlook was beyond grim.