Polar bears proposed as endangered species

ScottFuller.net ^ | 2/21/07 | Scott Fuller

[broncoholic]

Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA) is encouraging the U.S. government and the public to act now to protect polar bears from the life-threatening effects of melting sea ice in the arctic. In a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Alliance supported the FWS’ proposal to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

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15 years ago it was poachers. They told us none of them would make it through that! And given the choice between being hunted by helicopter by four rednecks with assault rifles, or trying to survive slowly melting sea ice… do we really have to ‘be’ the polar bear to know which one Fluffy’s going to choose?

[Calpernia]

polar bear ping

[RaceBannon]

oh, good grief...

[DBrow]

How did the bears survive the medieval Warm period (which the UN has taken out of their climate graphs better than Winston Smith could have).

During this period there was no ice around Iceland and several explorers documented sailing all the way around the North Pole without seeing ice.

Greenland was, um, green, Labrador was settled and called Vinland (for the grapes).

What did the polar bears do? How did they survive?

As for the UN graphs look up Christopher Moncton's reports in the Telegraph.

[Jaysun]

Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA) is encouraging........

Why does anyone listen to these groups? They're given far too much consideration.

[relictele]

Why does anyone listen to these groups? They're given far too much consideration.

Correct. Squeaky wheel etc. etc. but essentially the MSM are the laziest bunch of pencil pushers you will ever see. The AP is a press release/DNC talking points reprint shop and their wire service clients in the local papers are even worse.

If the National Association of Drunks wanted to ban hangovers you can bet it would get a headline no matter how nonsensical.

[SevenofNine]

OH MONK have any good photoshop of Cooter the Looter guy with Polar bears LOL!

[o_zarkman44]

save the whales! save the snail darter! save the black toed crawfish! save the horned owl, the pallid sturgeon! The bears, the wolves, the trees, the fish! It's always the same groups with the same fanatical agenda that the sky is falling and we should get down on our knees and let them save us.

But when it comes to the salvation of people only the ones who serve someone elses agenda get attention. And the preacher man is silenced beyond the pulpit.

[TomGuy]

Move over Amblyopsis rosae (Ozark Cavefish), a new emblem of endangered species has emerged -- the cuddly cute polar bear.

The polar bear is becoming the poster emblem for the global warming climage change fanatics.

An FR title search on polar bear shows several interesting topics, including:

Ice packs (and polar bears) thwart Iceland fishing

NO: It's a fact that their numbers [Polar Bears] are up fivefold since the 1970s

Global warming sees polar bears stranded on melting ice

Polar Bear Politics

Polar Bears "Dropping Like Flies" From Heat Exhaustion

Study: Polar Bear Genitals Are Shrinking

Study: Polar Bears May Turn To Cannibalism

[monkapotamus]

[martin_fierro]

They just can't read to save themselves.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

No one hunts from helicopters. In much of northern Canada, you can't even hunt on the same day that you fly into an area (so you don't simply land next to the game).

Meanwhile, some polar bear populations are actually increasing.

[SevenofNine]

That just wrongggggggg very funny LMAO that so funy LMAO

[libertarianPA]

The main threat to the polar bear in the eyes of IUCN is global warming. For a minute let's assume that the IUCN doomsday-scenario becomes reality. By 2050 polar bears will have experienced more than a 30 percent population decline. But even then the population would still be bigger than it was 50 years ago.

In the same week the IUCN came out with the polar bear list, Dr. Mitch Taylor, a polar bear biologist from the Eskimo nation Nunavut (four times as big as France, 30,000 inhabitants) wrote in the Toronto Star: "Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present. This complexity is why so many people find the truth less entertaining than a good story. It is entirely appropriate to be concerned about climate change, but it is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media-assisted hysteria."

tcs daily

[Grizzled Bear]

You are my hero!

[RunningWolf]

The Polar Bears are not endangered, they are mating with the Grizzly, breeding 'hybrid bears'.

IOW this notion of species fails at this juncture.