The Polar bears are feeling the effects of global warming because the polar ice caps are melting. Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first ice- free summer by 2040 or earlier, and the polar bears are already suffering because of this. Global warming also effects the weather causeing extreme weather evernts such as wildfires, heatwaves and strong tropical storms.

Some facts:

At the rate the climate is changing, the world will soon be warmer then at any point in the last 10,00r years.

There is scientific proof that air pollution from humans is partly responsible for global warming.

Climate changes will alter natural vegatation, wild life habitats, crop growing seasons, and distrubution of pests and diseases.

85% of the remaining wetlands in southern Europe are in danger.

About 30 new infectious diseases have emerged in the past 20 years.

Global warming will expose millions of people to health risks.

2006 was on record for the hottest year in the continental United States.

America is the top polluter of the world.

There has been a 20% increase of America's carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels since 1990.

80% decrease in U.S. global warming pollution required by 2050 to prevent the worst consequences of global warming.

200 million people around the world may be displaced by more intense droughts, sea level rise and flooding by 2080.

There has not been 1 federal bill passed to cap america's global warming polltion.