Global Warming refugees on DC streets

These refugees provide dramatic images underlinign "how global warming is making polar bears homeless by causing the sea ice they rely on to melt, threatening many polar bear populations with extinction."
These refugees are a Greenpeace effort to highlighting what is going on in Arctic and globally.

The Arctic sea ice has fallen to a low of 1.74 million square miles in September, roughly 860,000 square miles below the long-term average.

"That's an area of polar bear habitat three times the size of Texas lost this summer as a direct result of global warming," said Carroll Muffett, Deputy Campaigns Director for Greenpeace.   "Our intent with this project was both to communicate in human terms how that global warming is affecting the polar bear and to highlight the very real connection between the polar bear's fate and our own."

Rising tides and severe storms intensified by global warming have already displaced millions of people around the world, from Galveston to Gambia. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that millions more will be displaced by global warming in the next few decades as a result of rising sea levels, extended droughts, and more extreme weather events that force migrations and make returning difficult or even impossible.
"My intention with this project was to raise awareness of global warming and the plight of the polar bear," said Jenkins.  "Our destinies are bound closely together."

Maybe if these polar bears would get off crack and get jobs they wouldn't be in this plight.

And for other sightings of Polar Bears in DC.

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