Polar Bears

[sonny6909]

If for instance it's true and the Northern Polar Bears are going to be extinct by 2040, now, on the edge of starvation in some areas due to melting polar ice and, no way to travel the sea ice to search for food have been wandering inland but, have fewer ways to reproduce due to this melting.
Is it possible to transplant these beautiful animals in the South Arctic where they can live off seals, Penquins and other sea life. Granted it's also melting but at a much slower rate.

[dougmanxx]

To give you some food for thought about Polar Bear populations:

http://www.ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/200701_taylor.pdf
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p13s ... tml?page=1
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 132549.htm
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/origi ... tives.html

FYI The antarctic ice sheet hit an all time high this summer. The idea that it is "shrinking/melting" is simply untrue. The past year had the most Antarctic ice "ever recorded". I will of course put the same caution to this data that I give with Arctic ice statements like "lowest ever recorded", records of ice extent are a mere 30 years long, pretty meaningless in systems that have cycles we know last thousands or tens of thousands of years. We have no idea whether what is being seen now is simply noise or is an actual trend, our time scales are too short to be sure.


http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png

[Eskie]

I believe it will be more disasterous if we introduced Polar Bear to the Southern Hemisphere. I know the polar bears will not become extinct due to climate conditions. These bears will be are different in lifestyle and size even though they are polar bears. New born and their moms, get to go everywhere, 500 km inland, or 300 km out in the ocean. These bears are very adaptable, and can eat a wide range of variety of foods, and not only seals. They even sometimes resort to cannabalism. These pb have senses, and knowledge too. Small ones tend to travel a lot all over the map, including inland and mostly near the shore. Medium sizes tend to hang around the floe edge and the really large ones never touch the land, they just try and be cool 5 km out in the ocean. These are notibly different in sizes.

If you see a bear swimming in a deep waters, you can approach these beasts and pat them in the back without being chased, and only if you're in a boat. If you see one on the land, I suggest you get inside the tundra buggy or get inside a house or a shelter right away.