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by tstactplsignore 3044 days ago
Hi! Until quite recently most scientists I know agreed that we did not have conclusive evidence that climate change was directly harming polar bear populations. However, a recent study provided the first empirical evidence of that happening [0]. I hope you read and maybe change your mind about it!

[0] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6375/568

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I don't have access to article but the keyword is "likely" in the abstract. And doesn't take away from the fact this article used a misleading video to bolster it's argument. Climate Change is real but understanding the impact is something that is still uncertain.
What's uncertain is how apocalyptically bad it's going to be on a scale of "society collapses" to "everyone dies", plus when that's going to happen on a time scale of "ten years" to "two hundred years".

Every year they adjust their estimates things get worse.