Posted on 07/25/2008 6:14:22 PM PDT by Libloather
Scientists Debate Moving Polar Bears to Antarctica as Arctic Melts
July 24, 2008
Scientists are obviously reaching a point of true desperation. While the world still debates whether climate change is even real (eye roll), the scientific community is coming back to an idea that was once considered wrongheaded and dangerous: moving species to new areas of the world as their natural habitats become inhabitable. First up: moving the polar bears to the other side of the globe.
From Wired:
Caught between climate change and human pressure, species are going extinct 100 times faster than at any point in human history.
And some scientists say that figure is too conservative. The real extinction rate, they say, is a full 1,000 times higher than normal. The last time such annihilation took place was during the time of the dinosaurs. And though many conservationists say that saving species by transplanting them is foolish, others say there’s no choice.
“They want the world to be what it was before. But it’s not going to happen,” said Australian ecologist Hugh Possingham, author of an assisted-colonization article published Thursday in Science (citation page).
This does indeed seem like a very bad idea. Who knows what the effects could be of moving species so far away from their natural habitats? After all, such a move will affect the entire global ecosystem. The animal kingdom would have to figure out a new hierarchy. The consequences would be massive. It’s truly frightening to imagine that we are nearly to the point of needing a modern-day Noah’s Ark.
t”The bears may end up living at both extremes, but it is these “scientists” who are bi-polar..”
That’s funny!
I hear they taste kinda like spotted owl...
It’s generally a mistake to mess with the natural order of things. Recall the brilliant move introduce water hiacinyth to Florida, the following decision to introduce the manatee to eat the waterway choking plants, and the ensuing chopping up of the manatee with boat props. Now we have pythons and boa constrictors loose in florida. Thousands of examples of the unintended effects of man fooling around with natural selection exist throughout history - usually with disastrous consequences. The on thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
Could they be considered 'disenfranchised'?
LOL....five years from now we'll be debating moving the endangered penguin to the north pole.
Why not? It's working so well here in the states with Islam and MS13.
“Taste like spotted owl” - that’s really funny! LOL!
Scientists Debate Moving Polar Bears to Antarctica as Arctic Melts
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What an enormous task!!!! Any idiot scientist should know that it’d be a lot easier to simply move the ice from Antarctica up north. The U.N. should be in on this effort ofcourse. /s
Here is a better solution.
A radical notion about ‘the wild’
Toronto Star July 13, 2008 Murray Whyte
Posted on Thursday July 24, 15:10:46 GMT-0700 2008 by girlangler
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050807/posts
Didn’t I read a few days ago that Anchorage is experiencing their coldest winter on record?
That's all I needed to know...
One other bright idea that “scientists” had, was back in the ‘70s when “Global Cooling” was all the rage. Their solution to “Global Cooling” was to spread crude oil on the snow covered Arctic in order to absorb the sun’s heat rather than reflecting it back into the sky.
I kid you not.
They're gonna need plenty of heating oil. Do they know where to get it? Imported, I assume...
It’s going to cost billions to move the bears from one pole to the other. And guess who they want to pay for it all?
You're kidding.
I kid you not.
No, really...
Real or not, its still a joke.
Da bears.
The polar bears will do well the first year as they eat every Emperor penguin in sight.
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