It’s that time of year again, and ABC News is rolling out polar bear science to fearmonger about climate change.
The outlet rushed to X to share a UK study that says the bears are effectively having their genetic structure rewritten in real time, and of course, the culprit is climate change.
“It’s kind of the first time that we believe we’ve seen a mammal system such as the polar bear, where temperature has been the lead cause, and environmental stress at increased temperature, is impacting their DNA, their genome in real time,” lead author of the University of East Anglia study, Alice Godden, told the outlet.
“This unique group of polar bears is essentially rewriting parts of its own genome to survive,” she added, stating that it is “a desperate survival mechanism against melting sea ice.”
Scientists came to this conclusion after analyzing “data from an earlier University of Washington study that collected blood samples from polar bears across northern and southern Greenland. The experiment found that the southeastern polar bears of Greenland have diverged genetically from their northeastern counterparts, who live in a colder part of the region and were separated from each other roughly 200 years ago.”
“Godden and her team took this previous discovery a step further by analyzing data collected from 17 polar bears to investigate how those genetic changes could be linked to the warming temperature and environmental changes,” ABC News reported.
X users reacted:
— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🥥Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) December 12, 2025
I was told evolution to millions of years, but suddenly it can happen in a couple decades?
— BuddyPalChiefBigGuy (@RedJohn5150) December 12, 2025
I thought we stopped talking about polar bears and climate change since the polar bear population exploded. 🤣
— Matt Culpepper (@2300gearjammer) December 12, 2025
It isn’t warming in the arctic. Not enough for genes to alter.
— Hikenomics (@allabouttheUV) December 12, 2025
Some dude back a couple centuries ago came up with that thing called evolution.
— FunkySynapse (@FunkySynapse) December 13, 2025
“It’s so hot that it’s cold!”
“The oceans are rising so high it’s not measurable!”
“The ice caps are shrinking so fast they aren’t changing!”
“Polar bear scientists are splicing their own DNA to survive manmade global warm…climate change!”
👆The Experts
— Common Sense Todd (@CommonSenseTodd) December 12, 2025
We should come up with a name for when some genes get passed on more than other genes and eventually result in different species. This discovery could break biology wide open!
— Jeremy E. Neuman (@JerOHMee) December 14, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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