Here We Go With Another Polar Bear Panic

When I flipped on the news yesterday afternoon the anchorette stated something like "if you ever want to see a polar bear again, you better hurry". I immediately declared the story B.S. without even needing to hear it, but if you must, here's the latest global warming scare scam:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050, even under moderate projections for shrinking summer sea ice caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, government scientists reported on Friday.

The finding is part of a yearlong review of the effects of climate and ice changes on polar bears to help determine whether they should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Scientists estimate the current polar bear population at 22,000.

The report, which the United States Geological Survey released here, offers stark prospects for polar bears as the world grows warmer.

The scientists concluded that, while the bears were not likely to be driven to extinction, they would be largely relegated to the Arctic archipelago of Canada and spots off the northern Greenland coast, where summer sea ice tends to persist even in warm summers like this one, a shrinking that could be enough to reduce the bear population by two-thirds.

The bears would disappear entirely from Alaska, the study said.

In other words, we're not going to run out of polar bears, they just might decided to move to other areas and in some areas they may disappear. And yet, according to one study I saw, of 19 documented polar bear populations, 17 are increasing and only 2 decreasing. I guess they don't read the New York Times.

Scrappleface thinks that evolution will take care of the polar bear problem. He forsees the day when the big white bears will become big winged green bears soaring through the temperate skies in search of large fish in the swollen oceans. That makes as much sense to me as the New York Times story. Read his take here:

Evolution to Save Polar Bear from Global Warming