Polar Bears "Dropping Like Flies" From Heat Exhaustion (中暑)

(Cold Bay, Alaska) Warming temperatures in polar regions are causing an increasing number of polar bears to collapse from heat exhaustion, local hunters report.
(因為氣溫的不斷上升使北極熊們熱到中暑紛紛倒下)

Local TV meteorologist Sky McCloud explained, "Average annual temperatures in the area have risen from 20 degrees below zero to 15 below zero in the last 30 years, and these giant creatures simply can not withstand the excess heat."
(當地氣象學家解釋，在最近的30年來，每年平均溫度已從零下20度上升為零下15度，這些大型生物簡直無法抵擋如此過熱的氣溫)

Bear researchers concur with McCloud. Dr. Phillip Slander, of the University of Alaska's Wildlife Health and Comfort Department, said "People don't realize how much heat stress these temperatures put on polar bears. The bears are increasingly being seen taking dips in the ocean in their attempts to cool off."  (人類無法瞭解這種高溫為北極熊帶來的壓力，所以熊熊們開始泡在水裡消暑、降溫)

Researchers believe that it is only a matter of time before polar bears are pushed to the brink of extinction (瀕臨絕種). "Ten degrees below zero seems to be the generally agreed tipping point", said McCloud. "Once average temperatures reach this level for several days in a row, the bears start dropping like flies."

Dr. Slander recounted a recent incident in which a polar bear attacked a local homeless man, and had devoured only a small part of the man's body before collapsing from exhaustion. "Because of global warming (全球暖化), the bears' normal way of life is changing rapidly..it's tragic."

^{數字因為版面的關係…呈現出來的是直的}

居然有一千六百多人一點都不關心耶…

many  people  Chill About Global Warming

英文是原文，中文是在下翻的，(想讓更多人知道)，不過翻到後面就懶的翻了…(汗顏)…

quoted from : http://www.ecoenquirer.com/polar-bear-heat.htm