Sunday, April 06, 2008

Summertime Listing for Polar Bear?

According to the department of interior by early summer polar bear might be in danger of being extinction because the greenhouse effect has been part of the earth's workings since its earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane allow sunlight to reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of carbon dioxide have been released along with the development of industrial economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate: Since 1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the 20th century.
Acording to the New York Times science report from the climate panel predicted that the global climate is likely to rise between 3.5 and 8 degrees Fahrenheit if the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reaches twice the level of 1750.
Another reason that can be a cause of the issue of the polar bears being in the danger species is oils spills because its toxicity to exposed wildlife, the USGS Polar bears, the apical predator of the Arctic, are widely dispersed near the continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean, an area also undergoing considerable hydrocarbon exploration and development there has been no way to quantify the probability that polar bears dispersed over the seascape would be exposed to spilled oil.
we need to have a petition to help this cause and to make a petition to clean the oils spills because we have all the tools to prevent the extinction of the polar bears


Posted By: Rafael Leon

4 Comments:

At 10:00 PM, April 06, 2008, Blogger PWH said...

Good Topic. However, this article is a bit confusing. Are you concerned with greenhouse gases or oil spills? How are the oil spills happening and how are the polar bears affected? I have never read about oil spills interfering with the polar bears survival and I want to learn more information about this topic. I think you should narrow your topic to just one specific thing either green house gases or the oil spills.

C. Varela

 
At 3:05 PM, April 07, 2008, Blogger PWH said...

Very interesting. I recently watched a special on the history channel about methane frozen beneath the ocean floor melting and being released as bubbles through the ocean. This is happening particularly outside Santa Barbara, CA, did you find anything about similar things happening elsewhere?

Nicole Eckart

 
At 5:36 PM, April 07, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am a little bit confused! I've read articles saying that polar bears are in danger due to global warming, but a petition is not going to help this environmental issue. Thus, what do you mean? I like how you incorporated the oil spills, because the chemicals left in the open ocean is definitely a factor that can cause health issues to bears considering that it is part of their natural habitat.
Posted by Vanessa Raphaƫl

 
At 11:06 PM, April 07, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a great post because it is another example of how much our lifestyles impact the world we live in. Our society needs to become more aware of things like the possible extinction of polar bears because it helps us open our eyes to the real problems we our facing. We should be spending less money on pointless wars and more on protecting the environment. Great post but it could use a little grammatical revision.

Posted by Ben Tummino

 

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