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And by we, I mean the polar bears.

Polar bears and other rare species are in danger of dying out, scientists fear, as latest figures show the Artic sea ice is at record lows.

Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund, who are recording the ice cover over the North Pole, said less ice is predicted in the Arctic this year than in any other.

Experts say this not only means a loss of habitat to species like polar bears and loss of livelihood for indigenous peoples but could speed up global warming as water absorbs heat rather than reflecting the sun’s rays back into space.

Dr Martin Sommerkorn, senior climate change advisor at WWF International’s Arctic Programme, said: “We are expecting confirmation of 2008 being either the lowest or the second-lowest year in terms of summer ice coverage.

“This means two years in a row of record lows since we started recording Arctic sea ice coverage.“

I bolded the key point there, in case you missed it.  Sometimes I wonder how smart people can be so dumb.  I don’t know exactly how long we’ve been recording sea ice coverage, but it can’t be very long, at most around 50 years.  Polar bears, to make an understatement, have been around a bit longer than that.  They’ve survived with less ice, with more ice, with warm temperatures, with cold temperatures.  They’re not so delicate as to whither and die from fluctuations within, in the perspective of earth’s climactic history, a normal temperature range.

Global Warming We're All Gonna Die!