Bearing down
May 15, 2008Now you know. Every time you turn on a light, you’re helping kill the polar bears. It’s your fault:
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act yesterday, saying the loss of Arctic sea ice in a warming climate could drive them to the brink of extinction in less than four decades.
Too bad the ringed and bearded seals didn’t have their own Coke commercial.
Tags: Arctic ice, global warming, polar bears
May 15, 2008 at 5:54 pm
There are currently more than 25,000 wild polar bears in the world, and their numbers are growing – not declining – at an explosive pace in this time of “unprecedented global warming.” According to the February 7, 2005 Edinburgh Scotsman ( http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=143012005), “The world’s polar bear population is on the increase despite global warming.
“According to new research,” the Scotsman reports, “the numbers of the giant predator have grown by between 15 and 25 per cent over the last decade.
May 15, 2008 at 6:01 pm
OOPS …sorry about the dead-end web address in the my post. Read more about this subject with more web references in the article, Polar Bear Scare on Thin Ice here:
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=21966
May 15, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Most people agree that clean air and water are pretty important. I suspect you are among them.
But the next thing you know, you’ll be pointing out that we turned the corner in 1998, and the globe has been cooling since then. Confronting people who believe in “faith based science” with the facts can be dangerous, whether it’s creationism or global warming.