Chicago is experiencing some global warming. It got up to 50 degrees today, which sounds nice, except that the top layer of snow melted, and a complex snow-melt-ice situation has made walking around the ‘hood treacherous.

I’m watching PBS. It must be an artic life program, someplace with both polar and grizzley bears. The global warming is hard on polar bears. The ice upon which they–and their food source, seals–live is melting, and they must swim further and further and further to find food. They literally swim for days, but when they read another land/ice mass, there is no guarantee of food. It is hard for me to watch things suffer.

They look a little doglike, with their snouts, which undoubtedly adds to my sympathy for them.

Oh. A polar is meeting a grizzley bear. Oooohhhh. There’s some interspecies lovin’ going on.