Save the Polar Bears? They’re Fine, Actually

Two years ago, following guidance from the U.S. Geological Survey, the federal Fish and Wildlife Service officially listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The idea is that global warming will reduce—or even eliminate—sea ice in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer, and this is where the bears go fishing.

But recent scientific findings (as well as some older ones) show that the polar bear has survived several millennia with little or no sea-ice. The ruling was clearly based upon less than the totality of science, and we should hope that the Survey’s new chief, Suzette Kimball, who was schooled in the proud tradition of the Survey to put “science first,” will see fit to advise the Fish and Wildlife Service to de-list the bears.

This Earth Day, it’s time to give the polar bear the respect it deserves. Nothing humans can do to the climate is going to wipe it out.

That’s because we can’t change the Arctic as much as Nature has during the bear’s existence.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-j-michaels/polar-bears-earth-day_b_9752044.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change

This point of view does not necessarily reflect my own