Pretty good
lead article in today's
Anchorage Daily News about the fate of Alaska's nearly 4,000 polar bears over the next century, if present trends continue.
Excerpt:
"This is the first time that we've evaluated the plight of polar bears (with) respect to climate change, and we found that they were vulnerable to extinction," said the group's outgoing chairman, biologist Scott Schliebe, who oversees management of polar bears in Alaska for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Polar bears don't have a place to go if they lose the ice."
more below...
Politicians who could do something about reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are at least partly responsible for heating the earth have been reluctant to act. While the U.S. Senate passed a nonbinding resolution last week acknowledging the role of human-generated greenhouse gases in causing the climate to warm and suggesting that U.S. emissions should be cut back, Alaska Sens. Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski voted against a measure that would have imposed limits on those emissions.
a long time ago, an old boss said, humans are very adaptable and we can find a way to survive... but the plants and animals of the planet will be irrepairably harmed. he just shook his head.
what a sorry situation.