Another story Globe web site took down.
I can't imagine why!!!!
Case closed, readers!
"Canada panel declines to say polar bear threatened"
"OTTAWA, April 25 (Reuters) - The polar bear is in trouble in Canada because of overhunting and global warming, but it is not endangered or threatened with extinction, an independent committee advising the Canadian government said yesterday....
Canada has an estimated 15,500 polar bears, or roughly two-thirds of the global population. Disappearing summer sea ice is causing a decline in numbers in some areas but other regions are stable and in some the population is rising.
WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hutchings said that in addition to global warming, overhunting and oil and gas activity was also hurting the population....
In looking over my memory holes, readers, I found I still believed this crock of shit a year ago!
I'm embarrassed to admit it to you, readers, but it is the truth (that's all you get here).
The U.S. Geological Survey said last September that two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be gone by mid-century if predictions of melting sea ice hold true.
That's a MIGHTY BIG IF!!! See: Arctic Poles' Ice Expansion
The Canadian environmental group David Suzuki Foundation said five of Canada's 13 polar bear populations were thought to be in decline.
LESS than HALF in DECLINE?! Sigh!
Readers, that is NOT the IMPRESSION the AGENDA-PUSHING MSM has presented!
The western Hudson Bay population declined by 22 percent between 1987 and 2004, it said."
So what did they do, take the WORST CASE and RELAY that to you?
Never mind, readers.
Read this next item, and then tell me the fuckers aren't lying!!!
"Climate change poses great risk for narwhals"
"by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | April 26, 2008
WASHINGTON - The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study has found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
Yup, they got that bullshit about the polar bear accepted as conventional wisdom!
Nice job of propagating the public, MSM!!
The narwhal, a whale with a long spiral tusk that inspired the myth of the unicorn, edged out the polar bear for the ranking of most potentially vulnerable in a climate change risk analysis of Arctic marine mammals.
You read the above article about polar bears, right, readers?
Then you need this grain of salt, don't you?
The study was published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Ecological Applications. Polar bears are considered marine mammals because they are dependent on the water and are included as a species in the US Marine Mammal Protection Act.
WTF?! I thought they depended on ICE!!!!
Scientists from three countries quantified the vulnerabilities that 11 year-round Arctic sea mammals have as the world warms. After the narwhal - which is also known as the "corpse whale" - and polar bear, the most at risk are the hooded seal, the bowhead whale, and the walrus.
Please see: The Expanding Arctic Ice Sheet?
I'm tired of commenting on the bullshit, readers!"What we wanted to do was look at the whole picture, because there's been a lot of attention on polar bears," said study coauthor Ian Stirling, a polar bear and seal specialist for the Canadian government. "We're talking about a whole ecosystem. We're talking about several different species that use ice extensively and are very vulnerable."
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The study looked at nine variables that help determine ability to withstand future climate changes. Those factors included population size, habitat uniqueness, diet diversity, and ability to cope with sea ice changes.
This doesn't mean the narwhal - with a current population of 50,000 to 80,000 - will die off first; polar bear counts are closer to 20,000, and they are directly harmed by melting ice, scientists said.
Well, they SHOULDN'T BE WORRYING THEN!!!
Also see: Global Warming = Longer Colder Winters
But it does mean the potential for harm is slightly greater for the less-studied narwhal, said study lead author Kristin Laidre, a research scientist at the University of Washington.
Stanford University biologist Terry Root, who wasn't part of the study, said the analysis reinforces her concern that the narwhal "is going to be one of the first to go extinct" from global warming despite their population size.
"There could a bazillion of them, but if the habitat or the things that they need are not going to be around, they're not going to make it," Root said.
Unless, of course, the "global warming" is a FUCKING HOAX!!!!
Polar bears can adapt a bit to the changing Arctic climate, she said, and narwhals can't."
Now the bears can adapt?
Good God, readers!!!
Have you eaten enough shit for today?!
Oh, and I am not a heartless bastard, either, readers.
I love the bears just as much as anyone else!
What I DON'T LIKE is the bears being used as PROPS to SELL a SHIT AGENDA!!!
