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An inconvenient truth: More polar bears alive today than 40 years ago
DailyCaller ^
| 02/04/2013
| Michael Bastasch
Posted on 02/04/2013 1:53:46 PM PST by Daffynition
Author Zac Unger was originally drawn to the arctic circle to write a “mournful elegy” about how global warming was decimating the polar bear populations. He was surprised to find that the polar bears were not in such dire straits after all.
“There are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago,” Unger told NPR in an interview about his new book, “Never Look a Polar Bear in The Eye.” “There are about 25,000 polar bears alive today worldwide. In 1973, there was a global hunting ban. So once hunting was dramatically reduced, the population exploded.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: arctic; globalwarming; wildlife
In the Polar Bear Capital of the World...
To: Daffynition
Gore tool Leo DiCrapio can have his picture taken with them.
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posted on
02/04/2013 1:57:20 PM PST
by
max americana
(Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
To: Daffynition
It’s a real mystery how the population of polar bears could bee growing so large with all of those polar bears raining out of the sky in those Green commercials.
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posted on
02/04/2013 1:57:34 PM PST
by
WhiskeyX
To: Daffynition
Must be nice to be able to sit on your ice all day long...
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posted on
02/04/2013 1:57:47 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
To: Daffynition
Next thing you know, seals will be "endangered" and bears will be back on the "OK to hunt list"...
sigh...doesn't it seem like a good idea to stop trying to manage Mother nature and just let the bears and the seals (and the wolves and the elk) &c, &c, come to their own "balance of nature"?
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:01:45 PM PST
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: max americana
Even a dump fire in Churchill won't keep them at bay.
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:02:19 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. D.H.)
To: Gandalf_The_Gray; WhiskeyX
In the U.S. the bears are protected from hunting by non-Alaska Natives — who can hunt some polar bears for tribal needs. There are also special importation rules for polar bears and polar bear parts and products.
Polar bears are also protected by international conservation agreements between the U.S. and other countries, such as the Russian Federation.
A federal court recently threw out a federal government plan to protect polar bears and designate a 187,000-square mile area of Alaska — larger than the state of California — as a critical habitat for polar bears. The court ruled that the plan went too far, and that the government needed to correct “substantive and procedural deficiencies.”
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:06:03 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. D.H.)
To: Daffynition
“There are also special importation rules for polar bears and polar bear parts and products.”
Which has been a stumbling block in my personal quest to acquire a polar bear skin rug for my bachelor pad :(
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:12:33 PM PST
by
Boogieman
To: Daffynition
Polar bears falling out of the New York City sky to impact the urban landscapee and cars parked at the curbs..., where do you suppose the Global Warming crusaders got all of those polar bears to bomb New York City? (smile)
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:14:05 PM PST
by
WhiskeyX
To: Daffynition
Several thousand are said to be living on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.
To: Daffynition
Several thousand are said to be living on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.
To: max americana
“Paging Mr DeCrapio, please pick up the white courtesy phone.”
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:24:27 PM PST
by
JaguarXKE
(Welcome to the new America.)
To: Gandalf_The_Gray
Next thing you know, seals will be "endangered" and bears will be back on the "OK to hunt list"...I think we should train polar bears to hunt baby seals.
To: gov_bean_ counter
Must be nice to be able to sit on your ice all day long... Do that too much and they'll get Polaroids.
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:31:03 PM PST
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Daffynition
Okay, I don’t write or edit for a living but if there are 25K polar bears today and the article is about how they have thrived since 1973, do you think it might be significant to mention how many there were 40 years ago?
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:36:32 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: Daffynition
They all quit drinking those 32 ounce sodas.
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posted on
02/04/2013 2:48:25 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Daffynition
Somehow I think polar bears are behind this whole thing —
To: Daffynition
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posted on
02/04/2013 3:08:15 PM PST
by
Silentgypsy
(If you love your freedom, thank a vet.)
To: Daffynition
For a solitary predator like a polar bear, that is a very dense crowd.
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posted on
02/04/2013 3:43:00 PM PST
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: jmcenanly
Makes perfect sense the back assward moronic democrats would push and receive an ENDANGERED SPECIES act on polar bears while the population has tripled over the last 30+ years.
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posted on
02/04/2013 3:55:36 PM PST
by
spawn44
(MOO)
To: BerryDingle
HA!!!
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posted on
02/04/2013 3:58:20 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
To: BerryDingle
"Must be nice to be able to sit on your ice all day long... "Do that too much and they'll get Polaroids."
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posted on
02/04/2013 4:14:05 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
Some URSAnine puns, indeed!
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posted on
02/04/2013 4:46:07 PM PST
by
left that other site
(Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
To: Boogieman
"my personal quest to acquire a polar bear skin rug for my bachelor pad "
Got an uncle that brought back a tiger skin rug from his early 60's - 1st visit to 'nam...
Wish I was on better terms with him so he would 'will' it to me!
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posted on
02/04/2013 5:42:39 PM PST
by
45semi
(A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
To: Daffynition; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
To: Daffynition; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
02/04/2013 8:35:16 PM PST
by
neverdem
( Xin loi min oi)
To: Daffynition
NYT: This is some of the news which is not fit to print.
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posted on
02/05/2013 4:11:53 AM PST
by
Rocky
(Obama is pure evil.)
To: Daffynition
More polar bears alive today than 40 years ago
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posted on
02/05/2013 4:23:17 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
To: Daffynition
Well, whattaya expect from ol’ “number 13”?
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posted on
02/05/2013 4:38:48 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Daffynition
Some populations of polar bears are still culled up to 10% a year (about 5% legal and 5% poached). The Inuit who do the hunting believe they are not endangered. Those northern populations are also doing better with some Arctic warming.
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posted on
02/05/2013 4:53:59 AM PST
by
palmer
(Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
To: Daffynition
The country could have a well deserved laugh if our newspaper industry wasn’t run by a bunch of butt kissers... Hey New York Times and Washington Post - talking ‘bout YOU here...
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posted on
02/05/2013 9:17:30 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(What EVIDENCE justified blaming Benghazi on... an obscure video? Freeper TexasVoter)
To: Daffynition
The country could have a well deserved laugh if our newspaper industry wasn't run by a bunch of butt kissers... Hey New York Times and Washington Post - talking 'bout YOU here...
Liberal newspapers don't make fun of blowhards like Al Gore... hits too close to home. Or maybe they're cowards. Or they're afraid their dem handlers won't give them the 'good stuff'... Eff you New York Times.
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posted on
02/05/2013 9:19:34 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(What EVIDENCE justified blaming Benghazi on... an obscure video? Freeper TexasVoter)
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