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Date Posted: 09:45:08 05/16/07 Wed
In reply to:
Curmudgeon
's message, "Meanwhile polar bear populaiton in the Davis Strait area grew from 850 to 2100!!!" on 15:38:42 05/14/07 Mon
that's like basing the number of Republicans in the US by surveying DE's and your house.
>Instead of disgorging the DNC talking points, why
>don't yo do a littel independent research. Took me
>less than a minute to find this:
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>Canadian controversy: How do polar bears fare?
>Despite global warming, an ongoing study says polar
>bear populations are rising in the country's eastern
>Arctic region.
>By Fred Langan | Correspondent of The Christian
>Science Monitor
>Page 1 of 3
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>Toronto - Polar bears are the poster animals of global
>warming. The image of a polar bear floating on an ice
>floe is one of the most dramatic visual statements in
>the fight against rising temperatures in the Arctic.
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>But global warming is not killing the polar bears of
>Canada's eastern Arctic, according to one ongoing
>study. Scheduled for release next year, it says the
>number of polar bears in the Davis Strait area of
>Canada's eastern Arctic – one of 19 polar bear
>populations worldwide – has grown to 2,100, up from
>850 in the mid-1980s.
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>"There aren't just a few more bears. There are a ...
>lot more bears," biologist Mitchell Taylor told the
>Nunatsiaq News of Iqaluit in the Arctic territory of
>Nunavut. Earlier, in a long telephone conversation,
>Dr. Taylor explained his conviction that threats to
>polar bears from global warming are exaggerated and
>that their numbers are increasing. He has studied the
>animals for the Nunavut government for two decades.
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>The article continues at
>href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p13s01-wogi.ht
>ml">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p13s01-wogi.html
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>>Or didn't the RNC talking points go that far?
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>>In point of fact, polar bears are struggling due to
>>lack of sea ice, meaning that when they are swimming
>>out to find the ice so they can hunt, they are having
>>to swim to the point of exhaustion and drown. I know
>>that you don't find this to be a problem, but it's
>>only one out of all species that have to live or die
>>with the effects of global warming.
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>>>now handle existing temperature variations, which are
>>>far greater than 2 degrees, just fine? Why would
>they
>>>not continue to do so? Of didn't the DNC talking
>>>points go that far?
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>>>>Lets see.... we've already wiped out many species,
>>>>and many more are on the verge....
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>>>>for one, climate change is going to wipe out the
>>Polar
>>>>bear. Do you not think that the loss of a top
>>>>predator will have many repercussions????
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>>>>>What "life" depends on humans? The answer to that
>>>>>escapes me at the moment.
>>>>>
>>>>>>But I don't expect a mental midget like you to
>>>>>>understand that, even though many have tried
>>>>>>explaining how all life is dependant on all other
>>>>>>life....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Keep polluting things.... toxify your lakes....
>>>>see
>>>>>>how much you enjoy your fishing trips when all the
>>>>>>fish are dead.
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>>>>>>>azz hole. I want to leave your children NO
>>>>>>>alternative other than to recreate the world in
>>>>THEIR
>>>>>>>IMAGE, THEIR NEEDS, THEIR DESIRES not whimsical
>>>>>>>happanstance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I want to leave your children a cesspool and a
>>>>toilet
>>>>>>>and FORCE THEM weither they want to or not
>>redesign
>>>>>>>the entire world or as much of it as they can to
>>>>meet
>>>>>>>the GREED and
>>>>>>>SELFISH desires of the SUPER Alpha Species
>>mankind.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>IF half the worlds species are deemed irrelevant
>>>>then
>>>>>>>they shall die. SO BE IT..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>AS TO MYSELF I will aready be dead. Dead people
>>do
>>>>>>>not give a rats azz about anything.
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