Comments on: U.S. Gives Polar Bear Protected Status
Declines In Sea Ice Cited, Though Interior Secretary Says Using Status To Reduce Greenhouse Gases "Inappropriate"
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- Choke on this, you nature-hating, money-obsessed rightwing crackpots! Some of us think the earth is worth preserving, and see more than dollar-signs when looking at the planet.
Nature bats last. - Reply to this comment
- Sorry. ANWR would generate 1 million barrels per day. Given our current domistic production is 5 million per day, that would be about a 20% jump. I dare say that would have a very positive affect on prices. No matter that the population is 5x greater now than in 1972.
The real goal is to cut the legs from under the US economy by filling lawsuits against everything that has a carbon footprint. That would include your Prius.
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Posted by cbintn at 05:39 PM : May 14, 2008
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Isn''t THIS how we got into this mess to begin with. After the Oil Embargo Fascist said all we needed to do was increase our production here... that would take care of the problem they said. Guess what? It DIDN''T. Someday soon thinking people are going to have to understand that we need a NEW source of energy, one that renews itself. Reason? Oil is running out! Sieg Heil Bush - Reply to this comment
- What on earth are you talking about Edward1975.
(1) Polar bears are NOT declining; they have never been more plentiful.
(2) Those famous bears that were found drowned were drowned BY A SEVERE STORM; they were just offshore from solid land.
(3) Polar bears can and regularly do swim hundreds of miles.
(4) Polar bears survived the last interglacial period before the last ice age, when their wasn''''t any ice for them to mess about on.
Time to get yourself some high school education, and stop spouting nonsense.
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Posted by Seafang at 06:21 PM : May 14, 2008
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YOU are a LIAR! That''s the ONLY way to put it. The Polar Bear is ON THE ENDANGERED LIST for a REASON! It''s certainly is NOT because they are plentiful! Talk about someone needing an education... Sieg Heil Bush - Reply to this comment
- Kill as many as you want, it will stimulate them to make more!
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- HELLO, when are the american people going to wake up? The polar bears and others endangered are a shame,BUT we have humans in Our America that need the money and attention being spent on animals. I love animals, but when I have extra it will go towards helping humans in need, not animals.
Posted by cseninnie
Good luck to you and your views on animals. However, animals and environmental concerns only get three per cent of charitable contributions in the US. If you have a gripe about people charities not getting enough, you''re focused on the wrong group. Religious groups get about ten times what animals get in charitable giving and this, to my mind, is a total waste. Go after those nutty religious holier-than-thou Jesus freaks, why don''t you? We share this planet with animals and they should have rights too. - Reply to this comment
- HELLO, when are the american people going to wake up? The polar bears and others endangered are a shame,BUT we have humans in Our America that need the money and attention being spent on animals. I love animals, but when I have extra it will go towards helping humans in need, not animals.
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- A token. Give it all the status you want, but until you start to do something, it means nothing.
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- "With polar ice declining and these bears being found floating dead looking for solid ice, having to swim sometimes in excess of several miles, it may be too late to help these Alaskian icons. What a shame it took so long for people to realize we as a world have a serious problem.
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Posted by Edward1975 at 05:42 PM : May 14, 2008
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What on earth are you talking about Edward1975.
(1) Polar bears are NOT declining; they have never been more plentiful.
(2) Those famous bears that were found drowned were drowned BY A SEVERE STORM; they were just offshore from solid land.
(3) Polar bears can and regularly do swim hundreds of miles.
(4) Polar bears survived the last interglacial period before the last ice age, when their wasn''t any ice for them to mess about on.
Time to get yourself some high school education, and stop spouting nonsense. - Reply to this comment
- Don''t worry...El Presidente Booosshhh will send the polar bears ice machines with long extension cords so they can make their own ice. The government contract will go to Halliburton''s Ice Division.
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- I have always been a supporter of protecting the environment and the animals we share this planet with, but this is just plain dumb. How can one expect the Endangered Species Act to protect an overly robust polar bear population from a natural temperature variation? This is a purely political decision that will do nothing to protect the bears which don''t need protection in the first place. This decision will likely have unintended consequences that will have the same people who whined to get this decision implemented crying over the results. Oh well, what%u2019s one more foolish decision form the worst administration in my lifetime, possibly of all time?
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- With polar ice declining and these bears being found floating dead looking for solid ice, having to swim sometimes in excess of several miles, it may be too late to help these Alaskian icons. What a shame it took so long for people to realize we as a world have a serious problem.
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- Sorry. ANWR would generate 1 million barrels per day. Given our current domistic production is 5 million per day, that would be about a 20% jump. I dare say that would have a very positive affect on prices. No matter that the population is 5x greater now than in 1972.
The real goal is to cut the legs from under the US economy by filling lawsuits against everything that has a carbon footprint. That would include your Prius. - Reply to this comment
- YEAH!!! Now if only something would be done about the aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska, we''d really be on the right track.....
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- Kempthorne also said, though, that it would be "inappropriate" to use the protection of the bear to reduce greenhouse gases, or to broadly address climate change.
This is like some of the fine-print in insurance policies. The bear is a bona-fide endangered species, but it is up to the bear to lobby for his own right to live without man interfering with the global warming of his environment. Ah... the semantics of it all. - Reply to this comment
- Leave Alaska alone and leave it for the wildlife who call this place home.
Posted by noaanhc
Well said - opening ANWAR would only add 1% to the country''s oil supply. We can make that back by incresing the average gas mileage by about 0.4 mpg. - Reply to this comment
- I am so please this beautiful aninmal and a symbol of the Arctic has been given protection.
To drill for oil in Alaska is the last thing we need to do!!!! This is pristine territory and I for one sure don''t want this beautiful land spoiled forever just to get a few more barrels of oil.If we would all just drive less and also try and I mean REALLY TRY some conservation efforts we would save millions of barrels of oil that is wasted yearly in this nation.
Leave Alaska alone and leave it for the wildlife who call this place home. - Reply to this comment
- Yes we need to protect the polar bears
And yes we need to start drilling for oil in Alaska too
At $4.00 + a gallon for gas we better do some thing fast, and let''s stop paying people not to pump oil like our goverment does - Reply to this comment
- Wow! The federal government finally does something based on science rather than political expediency. Who''d of guessed?
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- The Alaska legislature appropriated two million dollars to create their very own science. The belief that science is a matter of opinion tells one a lot about the morals and educational attainment of the legislature. The perception that scientists are ****** waiting for money only makes sense to those whose own morals and beliefs come cheap.
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- The Alaska legislature apparently in the belief that science was a matter of opinion offered two million dollars to create their own science. Believing that science is buyable should give one a firm idea of the moral caliber and educational knowledge of the body.
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