Virtually every federal government action anywhere in the country can be connected to increased greenhouse gas emissions, which after all, are the cause of the destruction of the polar bear’s habitat according to the Interior Department.
So Conn Carroll asks, how about we stop new government programs by suing on behalf of the endangered Polar Bear?
It's high time to take it to the courts, for freedom.
Showing posts with label polar bears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polar bears. Show all posts
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Polar Bears
The push is on amongst the alarmists to "save the polar bears". As if they needed saving, polar bears have been around for thousands of years. Polar bear fossils have been dated back to the last interglacial period, so they went through at least on full glaciation cycle.
Let's get one thing straight from the start, polar bears are apex predators, weighing in a 1200 pounds, and can kill humans with a flick of their paw. They are not warm cuddly animals, you approach a polar bear at your own peril. I have seen full grown polar bears in the wild, up close and personal, and they are to be respected. If you go out in polar bear land, I would recommend a rifle of .338 magnum or larger, for your own protection. Polar bears are great swimmers, often swimming 100 miles in open water, so don't think just because you are on an ice flow, there will be no polar bears around,
A short history lesson ... Polar Bears population took a real nose dive in numbers when the high powered rifle was introduced to the native people surrounding the Arctic Ocean. They were shooting them for food and clothing, the skins are very valuable on the world market and for indigenous use. If hunting continued at the accelerated pace, the polar bear population would have very likely been decimated, and may have even forced them to extinction. Hunting became regulated, the slaughter was stopped, the polar bears have recovered about 3X from the low of the 1970 time frame.
Help for the dwindling polar bear population came in 1973, in the form of treaty restricting hunting of polar bears. In 1973, the "International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears" was signed by all five nations whose territory is inhabited by polar bears. The Governments of Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, signed on. Also known as the Oslo Agreement, it was a rare case of international cooperation during the Cold War.
Today there are even more regulations, for instance, rules restricting indigenous people taking polar bears and so on. Bag limits are now strictly limited and monitored worldwide. The subsistence and market hunting had likely reduced the polar bear population to under 15,000 animals by the time the 1973 accord was signed. Today the polar bear has rebounded to around 45,000 animals worldwide, and it is still increasing. A success story of taking action and restricting hunting to save a species.
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Now comes the global warming hoaxers and a scheme to shut down energy production in the US. The alarmists want the recovered polar bear listed as an endangered species. It's an ingenious scheme, polar bears use the Arctic ice to hunt seals, the ice is melting, no seal hunting for polar bears, no polar bears. Any activity that might effect global warming, oil wells, shipping and such, would be litigated and stopped. So the plan goes.
One minor problem for the schemers, the ice in the Arctic has been far lesser extent than it is today, and the polar bears happily survived. You knew that, right?
Yes that's right, the conifer forests, called "Boreal Forests" which encircle the Arctic, once grew right up to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. The area is now barren tundra since it's now too cold. But the records of the trees that were, are buried in the tundra soils. Yes and this includes ANWR, where hardly nothing lives and nothing except tourists go. In 2005 there was a sturdy done by a group of scientists, the results were published in a paper The work “Last interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change” was published in Quaternary Science Reviews. The paper showed that the Boreal Forests in many areas, grew right up to the edge of the Arctic Ocean. In fact, across most of northern Russia, they report that the Boreal Forests were displaced northward by as much as 400 to 1000 km.
Deduction is your friend -- It's obvious it was warmer on the Arctic Ocean shores than today, and it's also obvious the polar bear survived, torching the lie that the Arctic ice melting has anything to do with polar bear survival. The idea of modern Arctic warming in excess of that of the rest of Earth is not new or unnatural – Arctic warming clearly defined the climate of the last interglacial period many years ago. The polar bears, they simply adapted to the changing climate and thrived.
It's settled science, since the scientific evidence PROVES the fact that the trees grew next to the Arctic Ocean. End of story, which is why you hardly ever hear anyone talk about it any more.
Taken as it's total, the polar bears now have a much harder time hunting and surviving than they did when the lush Boreal Froests grew to the Arctic Ocean shore. Back then it was easy living, if you were a polar bear.
Let's get one thing straight from the start, polar bears are apex predators, weighing in a 1200 pounds, and can kill humans with a flick of their paw. They are not warm cuddly animals, you approach a polar bear at your own peril. I have seen full grown polar bears in the wild, up close and personal, and they are to be respected. If you go out in polar bear land, I would recommend a rifle of .338 magnum or larger, for your own protection. Polar bears are great swimmers, often swimming 100 miles in open water, so don't think just because you are on an ice flow, there will be no polar bears around,
A short history lesson ... Polar Bears population took a real nose dive in numbers when the high powered rifle was introduced to the native people surrounding the Arctic Ocean. They were shooting them for food and clothing, the skins are very valuable on the world market and for indigenous use. If hunting continued at the accelerated pace, the polar bear population would have very likely been decimated, and may have even forced them to extinction. Hunting became regulated, the slaughter was stopped, the polar bears have recovered about 3X from the low of the 1970 time frame.
Help for the dwindling polar bear population came in 1973, in the form of treaty restricting hunting of polar bears. In 1973, the "International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears" was signed by all five nations whose territory is inhabited by polar bears. The Governments of Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, signed on. Also known as the Oslo Agreement, it was a rare case of international cooperation during the Cold War.
Today there are even more regulations, for instance, rules restricting indigenous people taking polar bears and so on. Bag limits are now strictly limited and monitored worldwide. The subsistence and market hunting had likely reduced the polar bear population to under 15,000 animals by the time the 1973 accord was signed. Today the polar bear has rebounded to around 45,000 animals worldwide, and it is still increasing. A success story of taking action and restricting hunting to save a species.
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Now comes the global warming hoaxers and a scheme to shut down energy production in the US. The alarmists want the recovered polar bear listed as an endangered species. It's an ingenious scheme, polar bears use the Arctic ice to hunt seals, the ice is melting, no seal hunting for polar bears, no polar bears. Any activity that might effect global warming, oil wells, shipping and such, would be litigated and stopped. So the plan goes.
One minor problem for the schemers, the ice in the Arctic has been far lesser extent than it is today, and the polar bears happily survived. You knew that, right?
Yes that's right, the conifer forests, called "Boreal Forests" which encircle the Arctic, once grew right up to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. The area is now barren tundra since it's now too cold. But the records of the trees that were, are buried in the tundra soils. Yes and this includes ANWR, where hardly nothing lives and nothing except tourists go. In 2005 there was a sturdy done by a group of scientists, the results were published in a paper The work “Last interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change” was published in Quaternary Science Reviews. The paper showed that the Boreal Forests in many areas, grew right up to the edge of the Arctic Ocean. In fact, across most of northern Russia, they report that the Boreal Forests were displaced northward by as much as 400 to 1000 km.
Deduction is your friend -- It's obvious it was warmer on the Arctic Ocean shores than today, and it's also obvious the polar bear survived, torching the lie that the Arctic ice melting has anything to do with polar bear survival. The idea of modern Arctic warming in excess of that of the rest of Earth is not new or unnatural – Arctic warming clearly defined the climate of the last interglacial period many years ago. The polar bears, they simply adapted to the changing climate and thrived.
It's settled science, since the scientific evidence PROVES the fact that the trees grew next to the Arctic Ocean. End of story, which is why you hardly ever hear anyone talk about it any more.
Taken as it's total, the polar bears now have a much harder time hunting and surviving than they did when the lush Boreal Froests grew to the Arctic Ocean shore. Back then it was easy living, if you were a polar bear.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Canada Reviewing Polar Bear Problem
Yes Canada has now entered into the fray about the polar bears. But it's not what you think. Seems Canada have too many and they are becoming a nuisance. People want guns to rid them of the nuisance. Clearly the world has too many polar bears.
There is currently a review period on allowing CCW in National Parks. Go here to comment.
Read the rest here.
Arctic adventurer and writer Jerry Kobalenko is usually happy to see wildlife on his excursions, but his most recent trip to Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve on Labrador's northern tip offered more than he needed.Sounds like sound reasoning by sane people. Handy advice for venturing out in the wild wherever you go. Man may be intelligent, but he is not at the top of the food chain in the wilderness. Best to go armed, That's what I have done for years. On only a few occasions were any problems encountered. Several times was with wild feral dogs running in a pack, that can be really tricky, and the others were of the two legged kind. The most frightening was a happenstance encounter with drug smugglers. At that encounter I was actually hunting and had a 12 ga semi-automatic that I proudly displayed -- As I carefully backed down the entire length of the trail. When not hunting a 9 mm, 45 auto or 44 mag is my companion, carried mostly concealed -- Even the wife doesn't know if I am packing. Discreet, careful and deliberate applies to CCW holders -- And always be willing to back away.
"We had 13 polar bear encounters in six days and one was really close," Mr. Kobalenko said. "A bear came into camp and would not go away. It took us seven flares and half an hour to chase it."
Now, his rule for travel in polar bear country is simple. "You either have a firearm or you don't go."
Parks Canada is beginning to agree.
There is currently a review period on allowing CCW in National Parks. Go here to comment.
Read the rest here.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
When Polar Bears Grow Up
Fangs for the memories: Knut is separated from this little boy by six inches of glass
Knut now weighs 22 stone and has six-inch claws and a fearsome set of fangs to match.
And he seemed to be particularly keen to test them on the three-year-old boy lying on the ground next to his enclosure.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Scientists Debunk Polar Bear Extinction Fears
When all you have is fear, you have nothing ...
Scientists Debunk Fears of Global Warming Related Polar Bear Endangerment:
Canadian biologist Dr. Mitchell Taylor, the director of wildlife research with the Arctic government of Nunavut: “Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present,” Taylor said. “It is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media-assisted hysteria.” (LINK)Evolutionary Biologist and Paleozoologist Dr. Susan Crockford of University of Victoria in Canada has published a number of papers in peer-reviewed academic journals. “Polar bears, for example, survived several episodes of much warmer climate over the last 10,000 years than exists today,” Crockford wrote. “There is no evidence to suggest that the polar bear or its food supply is in danger of disappearing entirely with increased Arctic warming, regardless of the dire fairy-tale scenarios predicted by computer models.” (LINK)
Award-winning quaternary geologist Dr. Olafur Ingolfsson, a professor from the University of Iceland, has conducted extensive expeditions and field research in both the Arctic and Antarctic. “We have this specimen that confirms the polar bear was a morphologically distinct species at least 100,000 years ago, and this basically means that the polar bear has already survived one interglacial period,” Ingolfsson said. “This is telling us that despite the on-going warming in the Arctic today, maybe we don’t have to be quite so worried about the polar bear.” (LINK)
Internationally known forecasting pioneer Dr. Scott Armstrong of the Wharton School at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and his colleague, forecasting expert Dr. Kesten Green of Monash University in Australia, co-authored a January 27, 2008 paper with Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon which found that polar bear extinction predictions violate “scientific forecasting procedures.” Excerpt: The study analyzed the methodology behind key polar bear population prediction and found that one of the two key reports in support of listing the bears had “extrapolated nearly 100 years into the future on the basis of only five years data - and data for these years were of doubtful validity.” (LINK)
Biologist Dr. Matthew Cronin, a research professor at the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks: “We don’t know what the future ice conditions will be, as there is apparently considerable uncertainty in the sea ice models regarding the timing and extent of sea ice loss. Also, polar bear populations are generally healthy and have increased worldwide over the last few decades,” Cronin said. (LINK) & (LINK)
Naturalist Nigel Marven is a trained zoologist, botanist, and a UK wildlife documentary maker who spent three months studying and filming polar bears in Canada’s arctic in 2007. “I think climate change is happening, but as far as the polar bear disappearing is concerned, I have never been more convinced that this is just scaremongering. People are deliberately seeking out skinny bears and filming them to show they are dying out. That’s not right,” Marven said. (LINK) & (LINK)
Biologist Josef Reichholf, who heads the Vertebrates Department at the National Zoological Collection in Munich: “In warmer regions it takes far less effort to ensure survival,” Reichholf said. “How did the polar bear survive the last warm period? … Look at the polar bear’s close relative, the brown bear. It is found across a broad geographic region, ranging from Europe across the Near East and North Asia, to Canada and the United States. Whether bears survive will depend on human beings, not the climate.” (LINK)
Polar bear expert Dennis Compayre, formerly of the conservation group Polar Bears International, has studied the bears for almost 30 years in their natural habitat and is working on a new UK documentary about the bears. “I tell you there are as many bears here now as there were when I was a kid,” Compayre said. “Churchill [in Northern Canada] is full of these scientists going on about vanishing bears and thinner bears. They come here preaching doom, but I question whether some of them really have the bears’ best interests at heart.” (LINK)
Botanist Dr. David Bellamy, a famed UK environmental campaigner, former lecturer at Durham University, and host of a popular UK TV series on wildlife: “Why scare the families of the world with tales that polar bears are heading for extinction when there is good evidence that there are now twice as many of these iconic animals, most doing well in the Arctic than there were 20 years ago?” (LINK)
Man eating Polar Bear
The issue is that the wackos get the Polar Bear declared endangered, this then makes the Chukchi Sea an endangered habit, this then implies that there can be no oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea. The Chukchi Sea is a large body of water, north of the Bering Sea, the division line was bridged by a land bridge when the sea level went down by about 400 feet during the last ice age.
The fascists environmentalist have put all their effort in blocking drilling in the Chukchi Sea, that's how we help the Polar Bears. If you think Polar Bears are endangered, read the links, they are thriving and the contrived extinction fears is total BS. Even if it weren't, putting Polar Bears before people, it's what liberals do all the time, isn't it?
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