I'm tired and this is the only place I could find to rest during my swim

[Ichingcarpenter]

[midnight]

1. That bear is so darn cute, but this is heart breaking because of the environmental

conditions that are creating very little habitat for these beautiful animals....

[dipsydoodle]

2. Apart from that its Monday again

[Javaman]

3. And here I thought you were referring to DU

and how the you were tired of the BS in the world.

A polar bear maybe able to eat my head, but I will defend it's right to do it.

Cheers!

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Melting Arctic sea ice: Alaska-sized polar bear habitat disappears

Basking under clear, calm skies that delivered startling warmth to the Arctic Ocean, the polar ice cap shrank to the smallest extent ever recorded for the month of July, continuing a decades-long decline in the size of the summer floes.

Arctic ice cover averaged only about 3.06 million square miles during the month — about 81,000 square miles below the previous record low set in 2007, according to the latest update posted by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. That’s about 842,000 square miles below the average for the month as recorded by satellites between 1979 and 2000.

This stunning loss of ice -- which has slowed dramatically in the last few weeks -- is at once a boon to commerce and a harbinger for future sea ice shrinkage.

"Shipping routes in the Arctic have less ice than usual for this time of year," the NSIDC reported. "And new data indicate that more of the Arctic's store of its oldest ice disappeared."


http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/melting-arctic-sea-ice-alaska-sized-polar-bear-habitat-disappears

Hey Don't Panic........Arthur C. Clarke said Douglas Adams' use of "Don't panic" was perhaps the best advice that could be given to humanity