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Scientists Debate Moving Polar Bears to Antarctica as Arctic Melts (This is not a joke!)
Earth First ^ | 7/24/08

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.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antarctica; bears; climatechange; environment; polar; satire; scientists
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To: AndyTheBear
Real or not, its still a joke.

How would you know? (BTW, don't the claws mess up your keyboard?)

41 posted on 07/25/2008 7:39:51 PM PDT by Libloather (July is Liberal Awareness Month.)
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To: Libloather

And after we move them can we have ANWR?


42 posted on 07/25/2008 7:43:10 PM PDT by SouthTexas (Invert the 5-4 and you have no rights.)
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To: JDoutrider
Earth First ^| 7/24/08

That's all I needed to know...

Earth First. We'll log the other planets later.

43 posted on 07/25/2008 7:46:35 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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To: Libloather

sounds like a job for Ice Truckers.


44 posted on 07/25/2008 7:59:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: SouthTexas; MurryMom
And after we move them can we have ANWR?

Gonna need to move the caribou, too. That'll take a pretty big boat.


45 posted on 07/25/2008 8:03:15 PM PDT by Libloather (July is Liberal Awareness Month.)
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To: Libloather
wait till they get a taste for penguins...
46 posted on 07/25/2008 8:08:55 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: Libloather

***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?


47 posted on 07/25/2008 8:10:24 PM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: Libloather

Bussing didn’t work with white kids, why should it work with white bears?


48 posted on 07/25/2008 8:10:50 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Libloather
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.

Probably because the idea is wrongheaded and dangerous.

49 posted on 07/25/2008 8:13:37 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: Libloather
The whole idea is bogus. Extinction rates are minimal and the polar bear is flourishing right where it is. The fact is, sadly, journals like Science and Nature have discredited themselves from further serious consideration due to contaminated politicking like this.
50 posted on 07/25/2008 8:20:57 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Rembrandt; writer33; AT7Saluki
Bussing didn’t work with white kids, why should it work with white bears?

I really do have dreams of coming up with lines like that.

51 posted on 07/25/2008 8:29:07 PM PDT by Libloather (July is Liberal Awareness Month.)
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To: Libloather

Great line.


52 posted on 07/25/2008 8:31:25 PM PDT by writer33 (I'm Still Whining That Rush Limbaugh Isn't Doing Enough To Elect A Conservative)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Maybe something like this: http://www.southpolestrip.com/
53 posted on 07/25/2008 8:34:19 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: Libloather

YUM!! Fresh Penguin for dinner every night for 20 years.


54 posted on 07/25/2008 8:37:01 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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.


55 posted on 07/25/2008 8:40:19 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama=Jimmy Carter Part Douche)
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To: Libloather

‘Bussing didn’t work with white kids, why should it work with white bears?

I really do have dreams of coming up with lines like that.’


You will, you will.


56 posted on 07/25/2008 8:42:19 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“If they think polar bears are tough on seals, wait til they see what they can do to a flock of penguins!”

Amen.


57 posted on 07/25/2008 8:43:41 PM PDT by VA Voter
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To: Libloather

“I hear they taste kinda like spotted owl...”

I thought it was like chicken.


58 posted on 07/25/2008 8:48:02 PM PDT by VA Voter
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To: Libloather

Where is the evidence that polar ice is melting/shrinking?


59 posted on 07/25/2008 8:59:27 PM PDT by TheBattman (Vote your conscience, or don't complain about RINOs!)
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To: Libloather

Think we have space enough for ‘em here.


60 posted on 07/25/2008 9:09:07 PM PDT by SouthTexas (Invert the 5-4 and you have no rights.)
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