The five Arctic countries that are bound by a 36-year-old treaty to protect polar bears issued a joint statement today concluding that climate change is the chief threat to the future welfare of the ice-loving predators.(Via.)This is good news- sort of. The bad news (here) is that polar bears as well as their habitat are already changing as a result of the warming trend in the arctic.
Scientists say the animals are now only two-thirds as big as they were 30 years ago as melting ice makes it harder for them to catch seals, and that they have begun to hunt each other instead.[Fingers in ears singing "la la la la la." Can't deal.]
Speaking of sea ice, we've started watching the ice charts again. It's more relevant than the Dow. But does anyone else think it's weird that "Arctic Ice" has its own Twitter account? We just wish it was written in the first person. Like, "I'm feeling sort of down today," or, "No one listens to me." That would be awesome.
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