ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming.
The ruling is a victory for conservation groups that claim the Bush administration has delayed a polar bear decision to avoid addressing global warming and to avoid roadblocks to development such as the transfer of offshore petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast to oil company bidders.
“We hope that this decision marks the end of the Bush administration’s delays and denial so that immediate action may be taken to protect polar bears from extinction,” Greenpeace representative Melanie Duchin said in a statement.
The Seattle Times: Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing
Polar bears in Canada are at risk from climate change but not threatened with extinction, a panel of accutane experts has advised the Canadian government.
The government should develop a plan to protect the country’s estimated 15,000 polar bears, the panel said.
The animals face loss of habitat on two fronts, the panel said – hunting, and melting ice in the Arctic, which is widely blamed on climate change.
BBC News: Polar bears ‘at risk’ in Canada
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
Are polar bears good to eat? Of so, maybe we can just eat them until they are extinct. Problem solved.
These people are nuts …
What sort of gas guzzler do you drive bill-tb that makes the discussion so unpalatable?
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Greenpeace is showing the way to stupid environmentalism.
The Polar Bears are in no way endangered.The population is now over 22,000 bears.Up from around………… 5,000 just 40 years ago.
This is a simple power grab attempt.
bill – If you start eating polar bear meat, save a skin or two for me, because with the PDO and AMO shift it’s going to get damn cold out here in California, and I could use a nice fur coat.
bill-tb, they are OK but don’t overindulge in the liver!
It’s a killer, literally, too much vitamin A.
Or is it vitamin E!??
It’s vitamin A.
The best way to make sure an animal doesn’t go extinct is to eat them. For example, cows, chickens, and pigs are in no danger of extinction. It is the animals that we don’t eat that end up on the endangered species list.
Russ, there is some truth to what you say, but I think we are, at the moment at least, in a position, where we can have both.
I am in no way advocating eating polar bears, or hunting them for their fur either, but neither do I think they are in any danger of extinction.
We can eat our domestic animals and at the same time, take “care” of the wildlife.
And by taking “care”, I mean, leave them alone!
They have to take their chances the same as us!
If the climate or anything else changes, so what?
If we die OK, if they die OK too.
The world has in one way or other survived a few catastrophes before and I am sure it can survive a few more.
Not saying we should go out of our way to hasten it though, but are we?
That’s the question!
I think it’s vitamin K.
Paul, all I know of vitamin K, is, that it’s a treatment for dogs who ingested rat poison.
We had a little aussie terrier who would eat anything!
Costs us more than $3000.00 in the end (not just eating rat poison of course), but she was worth every penny, loyal, good snake hunter, and a lovely dog all round.
I always say, “if you are not prepared to spend money on, or look after your pets, than don’t have them.
Cheers
I may sound a bit silly here, but I have to add, she excepted without a fuss the vitamin K tablets and happily chomped them, while we had to go to great lengths to hide the worming pills.
Vitamin K is an anticoagulant.
(I tasted V. K, it was vile, to me anyway)
“loyal, good snake hunter, and a lovely dog all round..”
Would she bite AGW alarmists, do you think? If she goes after snakes, it shouldn’t be a problem.
But then again, I guess if she did, she would have to lick her backside to get the taste out of her mouth.
Denialist,
I think not, she was a “LADY” by breeding and behavior.
I am sure she would have done the Tim Flannery thing though, “lofty disdain”.
You’re an alround charmer Scum. Into seeing harm done to others and crass to boot. No wonder your arguments are so convincing.
Paul B, I think Paul W is right and it is vitamin A – what Scott’s men suffered from after eating seal livers.
Now I remember it was polar bear liver that contains high levels of, yes, vitamin A.
Not to mention polar bears with cirrhosis of the liver. I think those migrated from Russia.
Kenn,
Wrong explorer and species. It was Mawson’s men and dog’s livers.
thank you, dude
Thank you so much greenpeace I have been reading up or your NGO Keep up the awesome work!