Because of the massive summer time melting of the Arctic ice sheet, the polar bears have been having a very hard time as of late. They rely on a the ice pack to hunt seals, without the floating ice they are forced to swim for miles to even find some place to rest. This often means that they starve to death, or because of exhaustion drown.
Many people estimate that 2/3’s of the wild population could be gone in as little as 50 years. But putting them on the endangered species list mean that they would be the first species put on the list specifically because of global warming. This presents a problem to an administration that has gone out of its way to deny that global warming is a problem, and only recently admitted it was real! What is a denier to do? If they put the polar bear on the list then that means they are bound legally to do something about global warming, or perhaps that they could be sued for not doing something.
So of course when Greenpeace showed up in a polar bear suite to protest this lack of action, they were promptly arrested.
You know of course that the arctic ice pack froze early and fast this year and is now back to its normal size. You are also aware, I’m sure, that the polar bear population has increased from around 5000 in the sixtries to about 25,000 today. Polar bears are not endangered. The only people who think that are catastrophe-minded biologists who fly into Churchchill for a week, photograph a skinny bear (while ignoring all the fat ones) and then anounce an impending disaster. Canadian biologists and the Inuit who hunt polar bears say if anything there are more bears than usual.
As for that photo of two polar bears on a melting iceberg, I don’t know why everyone is so surprised that the iceberg is melting. That is what all icebergs do from the moment they separate from glaciers. Global warming has nothing to do with it.