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German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

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Re: German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

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Post by deanCommie »

irrational wrote: post #2

I feel terrible for the polar bears. I wonder if there is any possibility that they wont go extinct.

I remain optimistic that the human race will figure things out before we completely decimate all ocean life and before we make half of the planet inhospitable.

However, I am certain the powers that be will not take any action until MAJOR death waves in the western world such as the destruction of a major picturesque city from a freak weather event. Before that, I expect we will lose:

* Polar bears * Wild Tuna * Wild Salmon * Arctic sea ice * Greenland ice shelf

The last 2 will cause a substantial sea level rise, and decimate places like Bangladesh causing tens of millions of climate refugees that we will be dealing for the next century.

The western world will just shrug and build seawalls kind of like you see on The Expanse: * https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TnhgVnv-iVM/XfQ660L31xI/AAAAAAAAM... * https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/f05ais/i_love_t...

Re: German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

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Post by bamboozled »

irrational wrote: post #2

I feel terrible for the polar bears. I wonder if there is any possibility that they wont go extinct.

You should probably also feel bad for every living create on earth including for yourself. Their extinction is likely a sign ours might not be so far behind.

Edit: Go for the down vote, but the uncomfortable truth is that we're not likely to colonize Mars in 50 years or live underground, we need the biosphere just like these creatures. No level of denial will alter this fact.

Re: German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

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Post by deanCommie »

feralimal wrote: post #4
irrational wrote: post #2

I feel terrible for the polar bears. I wonder if there is any possibility that they wont go extinct.

But numbers are increasing! https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/03/05/study-polar-bear-num... So, don't worry!

Shame on you: * https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/climate-depot/

> ClimateDepot.com is the website of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) employee Marc Morano, a conservative global warming denier who previously served as environmental communications director for a vocal political denier of climate change, Republican Sen. James Inhofe.

Re: German ship completes historic Arctic expedition

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Post by BelleOfTheBall »

feralimal wrote: post #4
irrational wrote: post #2

I feel terrible for the polar bears. I wonder if there is any possibility that they wont go extinct.

But numbers are increasing! https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/03/05/study-polar-bear-num... So, don't worry!

Does that really matter if they lose their habitat? No matter how many of them there are, without a place where they can thrive, the bears will just die off.
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