Gonna need to move the caribou, too. That'll take a pretty big boat.
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.
How would you know? (BTW, don't the claws mess up your keyboard?)
And after we move them can we have ANWR?
That's all I needed to know...
Earth First. We'll log the other planets later.
sounds like a job for Ice Truckers.
Gonna need to move the caribou, too. That'll take a pretty big boat.
wait till they get a taste for penguins...
***Caught between climate change and human pressure, species are going extinct 100 times faster than at any point in human history.***
Ok, so I can think of maybe the carrier pigeon, the dodo, and good Hollywood movies stars. What else is dying out?
Bussing didn’t work with white kids, why should it work with white bears?
Probably because the idea is wrongheaded and dangerous.
I really do have dreams of coming up with lines like that.
Great line.
YUM!! Fresh Penguin for dinner every night for 20 years.
Nah. They’ll train the penguins to convince the bears it is better to live in peace and harmony. As one with each other rather than resort to violence and eating them.
They should also take up jogging, just in case.
‘Bussing didn’t work with white kids, why should it work with white bears?
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I really do have dreams of coming up with lines like that.’
“If they think polar bears are tough on seals, wait til they see what they can do to a flock of penguins!”
Amen.
“I hear they taste kinda like spotted owl...”
I thought it was like chicken.
Where is the evidence that polar ice is melting/shrinking?
Think we have space enough for ‘em here.
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