It seems increasingly likely that polar bears will go extinct in the wild by 2100. Trump's next 4 years will very probably seal their fate.
Originally shared by Brian Gauspohl
Arctic satellite images
http://qz.com/861727/climate-change-continues-to-ravage-habitats-for-polar-bears-and-reindeer-nasa-satellite-imagery-shows/
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That is sad news. "We had the best bears, biggest bears, whitest bears, Obama does not like anything white, he extincted them"
ReplyDeleteThat's going to apply to a number of species, I think, given his stated goals of eliminating environmental protections.
ReplyDeleteOne of those species might well be us for that matter.
James Karaganis but hey, somebody's making a profit. This is the most important thing, right?
ReplyDeleteOn our current course, according to the science I've read (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/11/e1501923.full), we'll see +6C warming (±1.2C) by the end of the century. That means that humans will probably not make it to 2100 either. In other words, we may have just voted ourselves off the planet.
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History has a way of repeating. Humanity's greatest challenge is its failure to comprehend the exponential function.
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