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Halli’s Comments

By Halli Moore
What Will Really Happen To

The Polar Bears Because Of

Climate Change

To all the naysayers Polar Bear family
regarding climate change;
take a look at these beautiful presentations based on his Academy Award winning
animals and what will movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” showed a segment
happen to them regarding of the film to a live audience at a luncheon I attended
their future. How can anyone describing how global warming is wiping out most of the
with a brain reading what is polar bear population in the Arctic because of the effects Polar bear walks across melting ice
changing in the world today of a changing climate and the effect on polar ice.
deny Climate Change? Currently the polar bear population is at about polar bears would be unavoidable for decades, no matter
Jeff Conley, a local 22,000. Experts say that by the year 2050, two thirds what happens with emissions of heat-trapping gasses like
architect/engineer who of the world’s polar bears will disappear because of the carbon dioxide. “The amount of floating Arctic ice will
is involved in Al Gore’s shrinking polar ice during the summer months, caused continue to shrink wiping out much of the bears’ habitats
Climate Project and is one of 1,000 people personally by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. for the next 50 years at a rapid rate-even if all of the
trained by the former Vice president to give live The United States Geological Society issued a report world’s major economies could agree on a significant
that offers little hope for the polar bear, as the world grows reduction in emissions of all hear-trapping gasses.
warmer. Although the bears would not become entirely Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
computer services extinct, they would be relegated to the Arctic Archipelago Administration say “sea ice coverage of the Arctic Ocean
$25 per hour of Canada and the coast of Greenland, where summer will decline by more than 40 percent before the summer of
ice still persists even during the warmer summers. Polar 2050 compared to the average ice extent from 1979 to 1999.”
Conley reiterated, “Once you understand the extent
cell: 561-542-1647 bears would no longer exist in Alaska of climate change and its ongoing threat to your current

“As the sea goes, so goes the polar bear,” said
Steven Amstrad, lead biologist for the team sent to way of life, you become obliged to do something about
survey the situation. “Sea ice conditions would have to it, but with a keen understanding that everything we use
Heidi mackler be substantially better than even the most conservative and everything we do has an element of embodied energy
computer services support computer simulations of warming and sea ice to avoid that we must reduce, replace or eliminate.”
email: hmackler@att.net the expected disappearance of the bear population.”
A warmer world with less Arctic sea ice and fewer Halli Moore is a resident of The Palms. 

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