Re:World Energy Outlook 2022
by another_story on Thursday October 27, 2022 @06:25AM
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After they were over hunted, much like everything in the area in the 1800 to 1900s their numbers have rebounded due to more strict rules around hunting and the fur trade. That doesn't mean their habit is not under serious threat.
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Their habit is not under serious threat, simply because it isn't. Polar bears who are used to living in temperatures between -30C and 20C or so, will not mind neither 1.5C increase in average temperature nor even twice or four times that.
What would make anyone believe that they would?
Re:World Energy Outlook 2022
by colechristensen on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:06AM
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They depend on ice and there’s going to be a whole lot less of it at the North Pole, entirely possible that there will be an ice free North Pole in the next two or three decades, habitat =gone.
Global average temperatures aren’t the whole story.