Associated Press
A polar bear mother and her two cubs are shown in Wapusk National Park
on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada in this
Nov. 6, 2007 file photo.
Posted on 02/03/2008 12:41:10 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Associated Press
A polar bear mother and her two cubs are shown in Wapusk National Park
on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada in this
Nov. 6, 2007 file photo.
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The Bush administration is nearing a decision that would officially acknowledge the environmental damage of global warming, and name its first potential victim: the polar bear.
The Interior Department may act as soon as this week on its year-old proposal to make the polar bear the first species to be listed as threatened with extinction because of melting ice due to a warming planet.
Both sides agree that conservationists finally have the poster species they have sought to use the Endangered Species Act as a lever to force federal limits on the greenhouse gases linked to global warming, and possibly to battle smokestack industry projects far from the Arctic.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. "And then there is the polar bear."
Even Frank Luntz, the political consultant who advised President Bush six years ago to focus on discrediting the science of global warming and refer to it as "climate change," has recognized the bear's potency. In an interview on the environmental website Grist.org, he said the public has a "soft side" for the bear.
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Ahem...
Global warming will ease your hard drive. Not the data, but your actual hard drive! Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
Global warming will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Global warming, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
Global warming will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.
Listen to me. Global warming does not exist.
It cannot do anything to you. But I can. I am sending this message to everyone in the world. Tell your friends, tell your family. If anyone else bothers me with fearmongering concerning Global warming, I will turn hating them into a religion. I will do things to them that would make a horsehead in your bed look like Easter Sunday brunch.
Hey buddy. Do I need to call my lawyer?
Oh, Bush will approve it. He wants to make friends with his friends at the DNC.
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Actually, I’ve read the current number is 22,000, but it’s still a good point.
'far from the Arctic'?
If The Endangered Species Act can use the polar bear's 'potential extinction' threat to beat China over the head, I'm all for it. We know where the majority of air polution originates, don't we?
I personally don’t spare a lot of sympathy for animals that have us on the menu.
Thank Gawd we have those with concerning priority in charge of maintaining our sovereignty. /s
As early as 1998, scientists were claiming that industrial pollution from China was spreading to the United States where pollution in the U.S. was rising to two-thirds the federal health limits. The current storm proves this theory to be true. Pollution from Asia is reaching in the U.S. in alarming amounts.
I am only reporting what the grizzly bear said. You would have to take it up with the bears.
Then who the blank are these pointy-heads who spill out this nonsense, who are we to believe? A Polar Bear Hunt costs: forty-thousand dollars and the Native-*(are we still allowed to say this word?)*, Inuits are allowed to hunt them, no quota’s imposed. Remember this is a money making industry for the Native Inuits. So what do these global warming dopes, expect the Native Inuits to do, to survive - what?????? Oh, yes - ask the United Nations for immediate relief./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Nice.
Odd bias here (har, har)
It’s the enviro’s who are using “climate change”. And the enviro’s who are discredited.
Why blame Luntz? (Other than the obvious propaganda effect, of course.) Also - recognizing the propaganda value is NOT the same as USING the propaganda value of the bears. (And recognizing the value of propaganda symbols is NOT the same as exploiting photo’s for propaganda - when the science shows the propaganda is FALSE.)
But the DECLARATION is the propaganda value to the enviro’s ...
We should at least wait until the bears wake up. They’re sleeping right now. :)
QUIET, I SAID QUIET!!!
There is a great story in "North To The Night" about a guy who winters over in his sailboat in Baffin Bay near the Artic Circle.
As he was motoring out of the bay the following spring, he was making 5 knots when he was passed by a Polar Bear headed for an island 25 miles out to sea.
The Interior Department may act as soon as this week on its year-old proposal to make the polar bear the first species to be listed as threatened with extinction because of melting ice due to a warming planet.
Both sides agree that conservationists finally have the poster species they have sought to use the Endangered Species Act as a lever to force federal limits on the greenhouse gases linked to global warming, and possibly to battle smokestack industry projects far from the Arctic.
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