Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Polar Bear Politics

US has declared the Polar Bear a threat­ened spe­cies Wednes­day be­cause of the loss of Arc­tic sea ice. But bec­ause the root cause is be­lieved to be the thorny po­li­ti­cal issue of glo­bal warm­ing, there are doubts as to whe­ther the listi­ng will lead to action to save the ani­mal.

"In­te­ri­or Sec­re­tary Dirk Kempthorne cit­ed dra­m at­ic de­clines in sea ice over the last three dec­ades and pro­jec­tions of con­tin­ued losses, mean­ing, he said, that the po­lar bear is a spe­cies likely to be in dan­ger of ex­tinc­tion in the near fu­ture. But Kempthorne said it would be “wholly in­ap­pro­priate to use the pro­tec­tion of the be ar to re­duce green­house gas­es, or to broadly ad­dress cli­mate change."

They are going to take all the polar bears into the Bush estates and keep them there so that no one can see them or do any harm to them. Ha Ha Ha


U.S. to list polar bears as threatened

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