Wait just a minute..."
Posted on 01/27/2011 12:34:44 PM PST by XHogPilot
The indigenous Sami peoples in the Arctic have found a way to help reindeer survive the ravages of climate change—but we’re guessing the deer don’t like it too much. Fluctuating temperatures have been a challenge for the reindeer, because melting snow often refreezes and forms ice over the pastures they feed on. Sami researchers have found that castrating male reindeer allows them to more easily break the ice, in part because they keep their antlers later into winter.
It also makes the males more likely to share their food with calves that would otherwise starve to death. “To make herds more resilient in the future, we need to relearn the traditional knowledge of castration,” one professor tells Reuters. Specifically, they’re aiming for “half-castration,” which renders animals sterile, but able to produce testosterone. In Norway, where the law forbids castration without anesthetics, researchers are experimenting with an injection that could mimic the effects.
This is what the wacko-greens have planned for us too....
These findings could suggest an approach for calming the nerves of AGW cult members in academia and the government.
I bet it would work on democRATs too. What do we have to lose by trying?
Another vicious, greedy conservative move invented by Sarah Palin and inflicted upon the natives of her home state. Oh, when will the suffering and pestilence stoppp??
Are you sure Al would fear castration?
>> My apologies. I confused Gore with John Edwards
No worries, FRiend. It’s an easy mistake to make — smarmy ‘Rats are essentially plug-interchangeable.
You first, Doc.
Why can’t they just leave the damn reindeer alone? They have gotten on with it for hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions. Now they need the enviros to come along and interrupt their lives and decide whether they should reproduce. Animals adapt. By interfering with their reproductive abilities, they are interfering with adaptation and, ultimately, natural selection. This will not do the animals any good in the long run.
Oh no you don't!
He said it’s only “half castration”... so I guess that’s not so bad.
Kinda like Whoopie’s “it wasn’t rape rape”.
What about the so called declining caribou numbers, don’t those corelate with an increase in polar bear populations???
Fluctuating temperatures have been a challenge for the reindeer, because melting snow often refreezes and forms ice over the pastures they feed on.And this is new.
This is "climate change".
There's never been fluctuating temperatures before.
Fluctuating temperatures (aka weather) never existed before "climate change".
So we have a new designation: BW and AW.
Before Weather.
After Weather.
Weather began sometime in the second half of the 20th century.
Before that, there was no weather.
[ This is what the wacko-greens have planned for us too.... ]
We are the cattle and they are they are the enlightened ranchers...
I can see where THIS is headed.............
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