Posted on 04/06/2016 12:32:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama administration brushed over the threat that climate change poses to the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ordered wildlife officials to act as quickly as possible to protect the species as it becomes vulnerable to a warming planet. Wolverines need deep mountain snows to den, and scientists warn that such habitat will shrink as Earth heats up.
The ruling comes two years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected the views of many of its own scientists and decided not to protect the wolverine under the Endangered Species Act, saying the effects of climate change on the animals remained ambiguous.
The judge said in his 85-page order that the "time is now" to take action to protect the wolverine.
"No greater level of certainty is needed to see the writing on the wall for this snow-dependent species squarely in the path of climate change," Christensen wrote.
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The climate has been changing for billions of years.
C’mon wolverines, EVOLVE dammit!!
The wolverine had sense enough to go north, I guess.
85 pages? Sheesh!
All we have to do is to just understand them and the trials they go through and everything will be alright.
All we have to do is to just understand them and the trials they go through and everything will be alright.
the definitive rant on Global Warming and environmentalist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4&nohtml5=False
I was all set to say “IBTFFCKWCAK-47”*, but I was too late.
*In Before The First Furcapped Kid With Captured AK-47...
They’ll just move further north.....
Esta mierda otra vez?
If it is okay for wolverines to be taken during trapping season in Alaska, a couple of other states and-I think-in the Yukon-just how endangered can they really be?
While they may be poisonous, Buckeye nuts are far too small to cause harm, even to a laboratory amoeba.
I beg to differ with you. I have lost two of my Alpacas to them and my neighbor has lost two cows. We cut them down whenever we find one. (The trees, that is.)
Thanks MCB...looking forward to leveling the W/L thing again. :)
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Beat me to it!
I wonder if he can be disbarred?
Clearly baseless dictates that even our EPA couldn’t support.
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