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Help for the polar bears

Been watching this story? I have. The Bush administration finally accepted a tad of science and declared the polar bear is endangered threatened because, hey, there's not so much ice anymore. The Bushies don't intend to do anything about greenhouse gas emissions, however. Who can prove they're helping to melt the bears' ice?

"We know Earth is warming. We know man is a factor in that. But we cannot tell you to what extent," said Kempthorne.

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Only when the Bushcons become extinct can we feel safe.
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Despicable troglodytes.

Max, and everybody else: A big difference between "endangered" and "threatened", the latter being the designation. Nothing but smoke and mirrors: bureaucratic bullshit. Nothing changes as far as environmental "policy". Another hushpuppy thrown under the table by this bunch of sorry porch sitters. Why expect anything else?

When will the Bush administration put the US soldier on the Endangered Species list?

Look in the bear's eyes.

Google "polar bear extinction" -- "images," "news" or "general."

Read about it.

Oh, it's down the road a bit. But it's over for polar bears.

Further around the bend, it may be "over" for us too.

I don't know.

Are we looking at stranded bears?

Or are they confronting us?

Quietly resigned to whatever comes . . . .

More distortion and lies. The polar bear population has increased by five fold in the last 40 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalarctos_maritimus#Population_and_distribution

Sorry, Anonymous. You're dead wrong. Or a liar. Or ignorant of facts. The US Interior Department just yesterday put polar bears on the threatened species list.

Try reading the news before making an idiot of yourself here, sweet petunia.

Yawn! Polar bears are growing in number by leaps and bounds (have doubled in the last few decades). They are already protected under a much more strict marine mammal act of some sort.
GREAT day for polar bears.
BAD day for us lowly humans and our ever decreasing wallets. Thank you Democrats and thanks Bush for pandering to the environmental morons.


*****cross post from heyyou, RedState******


One bear said, "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the global warming radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Gore and his followers crossed into the movie theatres with his nobel prize, one important bear declared: 'Lord, if I could only have told Gore that our numbers were increasing and we were thriving, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false portrayal of global climate change, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

PS Norma, it is not difficult to get on the threatened list as some 1300+ species are. They are listed this way due to a shrinking of ice caps despite their growth. So now any possible economic growth in that area will be halted, property rights will be taken away (not that you believe us lowly humans deserve any rights). Before too long, polar bears will be over run by themselves, and some sort of polar bear hunting will have to be instated to help them survive. I hope you have to kill the first poor polar bear that is starving to death because of this stupid nonsense!

link at name

Sorry, Anonymous and MAK, but you're both dead wrong. Not only dead wrong, but apparently parroting some right-wing propaganda you heard somewhere. Took me awhile to find, but here's the link disproving what you call "stupid nonsense."

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/

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