Do Polar Bears Breed in Captivity?

Good post from DarkSyde about the disappearing Arctic ice and the polar amplification effect, which is the likelihood that global warming will effect the poles more than the equator and we'll see a general flattening of temperatures around the planet.

The closing paragraph reads:

The fact is we have no experience with this phenomenon. The Arctic Ice Cap isn't just older than recorded human history, it's probably much older than anatomically modern humans, and it likely spans a good chunk of relatively recent hominid evolution: We evolved during a period of repeating glaciations on a planet with a permanent ice-covered North Pole. But while H. sapiens will undoubtedly survive the demise of that ice-cap, the effect of those tumbling, melting dominoes on our globally intertwined civilization, and on the massive, growing ocean of human flesh now smothering the planet in greenhouse gases, may be a disaster of epic proportion.

Yep. A disaster completely unknown to humanity.