Offshore Drilling Ban to be Lifted by Bush

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Polar Bears are close to extinct. They're drowning because the ice is melting.

Certainly debatable - I can find many references to the contrary.

Polar bears thriving as arctic warms up

In the Davis Strait area, a 140,000-square kilometre region, the polar bear population has grown from 850 in the mid-1980s to 2,100 today.

Much of what I've read on the subject says that counting polar bears is very difficult because of the vastness and unfriendliness of their habitat. It also seems as if it isn't actual numbers that appear to be in decline, but that there is more a sense that they will be in danger.