Comments on: Scientists: Most Polar Bears Dead By 2050

Government Scientists Project Two-Thirds Drop In Bear Population Due To Global Warming

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by lorinkundert September 8, 2007 5:24 PM EDT
So What! It''s called evolution, species that can''t adapt always become extinct as they have since the dawn of time.
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by sblake63 September 8, 2007 3:57 PM EDT
We are all going to die folks! Bush caused this problem that evil polar bear killer! You evil SUV drivers are planet killers! Vote for the democrats, they will punish the evil planet killers and ban all their evil vices that are killing mother earth!

What I just typed above was a translation for the more simpler folk that come to this forum so all may understand what the radical environmentalist movement is really about.

Is anybody retared enough to believe one man (Bush) or anybody else can stop this trend. Does anybody realize that the core samples taking from the antartic ice cap has shown us that this planet has gone thru periods of gloabal warming that exceeds our current "plight"?

What a shame some of these cry baby enviromentalists wont go the same way the polor bears do.. Extinct!

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by jerr11 September 8, 2007 3:51 PM EDT
What great news!

When all the wild life is gone from the Alaskan wilderness, there''ll be nothing to stop the Republicans from drilling there!
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by zoltaric September 8, 2007 3:42 PM EDT
Good! Polar bears eat humans. Let them die.
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by keithle1 September 8, 2007 12:18 PM EDT
Wow. That really grabs your attention. Is this for real?
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by omega39-2009 September 8, 2007 11:47 AM EDT
I couldn''''t read all the posts but I bet I can summarize them.
All Bush''''s fault
Posted by Xlib

Nope, Bush is blameless...for everything, it''s all someone else''s fault. The buck hasn''t stopped with Bush in 7 years, why would you expect it now?
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by jjp735i September 8, 2007 10:55 AM EDT
What, you mean Bush allowed government scientists to release a report that was not watered down or blacked out? That in it''s self is a shock!
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by xlib September 8, 2007 10:12 AM EDT
I couldn''t read all the posts but I bet I can summarize them.
All Bush''s fault
Everything was great until 1/20/00
It''s all America''s fault, we are dooming the planet. The rest of the world is fine, it''s all us.
You won''t read it here but there was another "global warming" trend back in, I think 1922. There were dire predictions then, polar bears dying out, etc, etc.
Then we had "the new ice age" back in the 70''s during the "we''re a selfish nation and need to suck it up carter years". What happened then?
Does anyone realize that the climate is constantly changing and shifting? Do we really know what the norm is?
You know how the left is saying that the whole global war on terror is a hoax? Well lefties, I think your powers that be and your msm is playing this up big time.
NOw, about the polar bears. Could this be the over population from the ice age 70''s?? That question is no dumber than those that think we can change the climate. That is the ultimate in elitism.
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by the_quietman September 8, 2007 6:52 AM EDT
brianbwb
The earth and other bodies with gaseous atmospheres are constantly losing atmosphere into space, helped along by the solar wind. Space is mostly hydrogen not oxygen. The issue is closed system versus open system so please do not confuse matters. Earth recieves minerals and water on a regular basis via "shooting stars" (meteorites and cometary debris). The earth recycles it''s surface by subduction (usually slowly) and volcanic expulsion (rapidly). The interaction of an open system is what created the moon, added mass to the planet and most likely changed it''s orbit.
Mars has similar warnubg problems currently due to these same interactions but lacks a "Van Allen" belt so radioactivity and solar wind have an increased effect. Computer models that do not include ALL factors result in errors (GIGO).

For matters of health the pollution needs to be addressed but climate change will still occur as it has for the last 4.5 billion years. That is, as frightening as it may be, the way it is. Man has no control over the climate of Earth, we adapt or die like all the creatures before us.
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by brianbwb-2009 September 8, 2007 6:12 AM EDT
Posted by the_quietman

Ok, so lets accept for a moment your logic, so where does toxic waste go when dumped into the rivers, lakes, and oceans, to Pluto? Where do the emissions from autos, factories, and coal burning plants go once emitted?

The influences of remote objects in the universe are so negligible that the Earth can be considered, for all intents and purposes a closed system. True, there are oxygen atoms in space, but can you breathe out there? This is the only biosphere we have, and ignoring our effects on it only hasten our doom. Poisoning the hydrosphere is akin to defecating in the kitchen, dude, that is our only water supply. same goes for the atmosphere.
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