Posted on 05/27/2008 5:57:42 PM PDT by pissant
Republican presidential candidate John McCain voiced support on March 31 for the Polar Bear Conservancy's Antarctic Relocation Program.
"This is exactly the kind of creative public-private partnership we ought to be exploring. I support the basic concepts of this program," McCain said.
Conservancy biologists and engineers will begin moving the first polar bears to Antarctica on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at polarbearconservancy.org ...
got to be a spoof. belongs in the Onion.
It looks like McCain has bought this crap hook line and sinker!
Gotta be. Nuthin’ to eat down there but penguins and scientists.
read the dates ... WILL begin moving polar bears to Antarctica on APRIL 22, 2008 ... from a story dated in May of 2008.
Clever but sloppy spoof.
Actually, it is most likely the Sierra Club's money is in McCain's sights and is looking good to him.
It’s a nutty website that proclaims Polar Bears will be extinct within 100 years... somebody forgot to tell them that Polar bear population has been INCREASING the past few years...
LOL! That has got to be one of the funniest photos I’ve seen in a while... Thanks!
I’ll kick in a hundred if Johnny Mac goes with the bears.
My bad, actual story is dated MARCH of 2008. Site looks legit.
McCain of course is not legit.
Sounds like we might be in for another demonstration of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
In partnership with the Polar Bear Conservancy, Iceland's Reykjavik Zoo has been test-feeding samples of various Antarctic species to their polar bears. "They really like the minke and blue whale meat supplied by our government research expeditions," said chief zoo biologist Katrin Jonsdottir.
Sounds too ridiculous to be true, but... it looks like a genuine article and website.
Kind of like turning the mongooses loose in the Caribbean - didn't that result in the destruction of lots of the native birds?
And lets not forget that wonderful experiment with which all Southerners are familiar - the introduction of Kudzu, the vine that ate the South.
McScream is a spoof. He is also an idiot. Sadly I will have to vote for this McScreaming nutt bag to keep Obama out of the White House. But, then again, I don’t want this idiot fool in the WH either. Damn. What to do.
Scientists say polar bears face near-certain extinction by 2020 as global climate change accelerates melting of their habitat in the Northern Arctic. Antarctica, in contrast, can be a viable home for the bears. Though experiencing melting of its own, the southernmost continent still has sufficient ice coverage to support the polar bear indefinitely in its traditional climate, and it has abundant food stocks, including penguins, seals, dolphins, and migratory whales.
"The public sees images of polar bears drowning on television and they expect us to do something about it," says Polar Bear Conservancy Executive Director Jason Fairbanks. "The time to act is now." Fairbanks says the entire program will be complete by 2012.
The program is expected to cost $30 million U.S., or approximately $10,000 U.S. per polar bear. The Polar Bear Conservancy has raised the first $15 million from corporate donors and is seeking additional funding through industry and government partnerships...
How to Relocate A Polar Bear to Antarctica.
Step One. First, VERY CAREFULLY, catch your polar bear.
Step Two......
They should be exterminated, the sooner the better.
If it opens up Alaksa to oil drilling, than I say let’s do it. I’d prefer we make use of a Polar Bear cook book, but I can live with this, as well.
Polar Bears “Dropping Like Flies” From Heat Exhaustion
“Hunter Jeremiah Johnson comforts a polar bear that had collapsed from heat exhaustion before he could shoot it.”
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/polar-bear-heat.htm
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