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Date Posted: 09:53:58 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
if you'd actually READ the article.....
"The critical problem is, the sea ice is changing. We're looking ahead three generations, 30 to 50 years. To say that bear populations are growing in one area now is irrelevant," says Derocher.
and
Animal rights activists can take some credit for the growth of polar bear numbers in the eastern Arctic. The battle to ban the hunting of harp seal pups has meant that the harp seal population has jumped from 2 million to 5 million. It also means sealers, especially those from Norway, are no longer hunting the polar bears, which they used to do when the seal hunt was larger. "The increase in the population is not a climate-change related issue," Derocher claims. It's the result of "conservation and an increase in the harp seal population," he says.
and most telling....
Derocher worries about Taylor's evidence. Taylor and his team work for the Inuit-dominated government. For cultural reasons, that government wants to preserve hunting and keep polar bears off the endangered species list, Derocher says.
Go figure... a special interest group that hires a guy to fudge the numbers...
>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....
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>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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