Global Warming:

Every summer polar bears roam large chunks of floating ice.  The polar bear can drift for hundreds of miles in the search for mates & food. Polar bears hunt seals and the more ice they have the easier it is to catch their prey.

Enter the global warming phenomenon. With each passing year there's less and less ice. The end result is that a polar bear has to swim for extended periods of time to move from one chunk of ice to another.  This extended swimming may result in a higher risk of drowning. 

Another problem with less ice is that it is more difficult to locate food sources. With less food caught in the summer it increases the polar bears risk of starvation over the long winter months.

With the bears returning to land sooner and hungrier, the weight of polar bears has been decreasing over the years.  It is also more difficult for males and females to meet, this results in less females with cubs.

In Hudson Bay where weather patterns have been extensively documented scientists claim that the ice season has been reduced by approximately three weeks over the past 20 years. That is three weeks with polar bear having a shorter mating season, and less time to capture prey. It is also three weeks longer that the polar bears have to survive off of the prior years food source.

There has been extensive documentation concerning the global warming phenomenon. The main culprit is greenhouse gas emissions. Burning fossil fuels is a horrible way to pollute the atmosphere and global warming is a by-product. It is up to governments and corporations both to create renewable sources of energy.

We can only hope that governments wake up and that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced in the near future. The polar bear depends on it.

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