Walter, Walter.... Du nimmst uns doch wohl nicht auf den Arm???;-):lol:
How about snakes? I wouldn't mind if they disappeared!
How about snakes? I wouldn't mind if they disappeared!
Polar Bears an endangered species!!!
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Spass beiseite - Ernst in die Ecke!!;-)
Alaska challenges polar bears' threatened status
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska's governor says the state will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Sarah Palin says there is insufficient evidence to support the decision that U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made last week.
Mr. Kempthorne says the best available science indicates that the bears' primary habitat, sea ice, is shrinking and is likely to further recede.
Ms. Palin says polar bears are well managed and that their numbers have dramatically increased over the last 30 years.
Conservation groups say the increase is due to measures that halted over-hunting but that populations are likely to crash as summer sea ice diminishes.
Enlarge Image American sporthunters, Mark Beeler, 49, and Allyn Ladd, 33, pose with a freshly killed polar bear taken by a local Inuk hunter. (Patrick Kane for The Globe and Mail)
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Look at those MEN!!! Disgusting!!! What do they need the dead animal for? For show-off, of course and Ego-stroking!!
So, now what? Mad and pessimistic as I am , I'd say the law will be overturned, so the men can keep on enjoying their "sport"!!:angryfire::angry3:
Pfui for the Inuk Hunter! Money speaks louder than his love for nature, I guess. Everything honorable and beautiful has gone to pots.
Alaska challenges polar bears' threatened status
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska's governor says the state will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Sarah Palin says there is insufficient evidence to support the decision that U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made last week.
Mr. Kempthorne says the best available science indicates that the bears' primary habitat, sea ice, is shrinking and is likely to further recede.
Ms. Palin says polar bears are well managed and that their numbers have dramatically increased over the last 30 years.
Conservation groups say the increase is due to measures that halted over-hunting but that populations are likely to crash as summer sea ice diminishes.
Enlarge Image American sporthunters, Mark Beeler, 49, and Allyn Ladd, 33, pose with a freshly killed polar bear taken by a local Inuk hunter. (Patrick Kane for The Globe and Mail)
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Look at those MEN!!! Disgusting!!! What do they need the dead animal for? For show-off, of course and Ego-stroking!!
So, now what? Mad and pessimistic as I am , I'd say the law will be overturned, so the men can keep on enjoying their "sport"!!:angryfire::angry3:
Pfui for the Inuk Hunter! Money speaks louder than his love for nature, I guess. Everything honorable and beautiful has gone to pots.
Perhaps if all hunters had to donate their cadaver back to the bears on death then the bears might get that extra little snack that allows them to swim that extra little bit.
The ice seems to be receding towards Greenland, once that place become too crowded it would be time to bring them 'ashore'.
The ice seems to be receding towards Greenland, once that place become too crowded it would be time to bring them 'ashore'.
Spass beiseite - Ernst in die Ecke!!;-)
Alaska challenges polar bears' threatened status
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska's governor says the state will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Sarah Palin says there is insufficient evidence to support the decision that U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made last week.
Mr. Kempthorne says the best available science indicates that the bears' primary habitat, sea ice, is shrinking and is likely to further recede.
Ms. Palin says polar bears are well managed and that their numbers have dramatically increased over the last 30 years.
Conservation groups say the increase is due to measures that halted over-hunting but that populations are likely to crash as summer sea ice diminishes.
Enlarge Image American sporthunters, Mark Beeler, 49, and Allyn Ladd, 33, pose with a freshly killed polar bear taken by a local Inuk hunter. (Patrick Kane for The Globe and Mail)
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Look at those MEN!!! Disgusting!!! What do they need the dead animal for? For show-off, of course and Ego-stroking!!
So, now what? Mad and pessimistic as I am , I'd say the law will be overturned, so the men can keep on enjoying their "sport"!!:angryfire::angry3:
Pfui for the Inuk Hunter! Money speaks louder than his love for nature, I guess. Everything honorable and beautiful has gone to pots.
Pfui for brain dead idiots that don't have a clue as to what they are talking about.
The facts:
The "subsistence" hunters would be the Inuk. DO you know what "subsistence" means?
George Will: Washington's latest pre-emptive war
Article Launched: 05/21/2008 05:36:22 PM PDT
A preventive war worked out so well in Iraq that Washington last week launched another. The new preventive war - the government responding forcefully against a postulated future threat - has been declared on behalf of polar bears, the first species whose supposed jeopardy has been ascribed to global warming.
The Interior Department, bound by the Endangered Species Act, has declared polar bears a "threatened" species because they might be endangered "in the foreseeable future," meaning 45 years. (Note: 45 years ago, the now-long-forgotten global cooling menace of 35 years ago was not yet foreseen.) The bears will be threatened if the current episode of warming, if there really is one, is, unlike all the previous episodes, irreversible, and if it intensifies, and if it continues to melt sea ice vital to the bears, and if the bears, unlike in many previous warming episodes, cannot adapt.
Because of restrictions on hunting, polar bears might be more numerous today than ever and might be twice as numerous as they were three decades ago - when the media were fanning frenzy about global cooling. (The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1975, reported "many signs" that "Earth may be heading for another ice age.") As Nigel Lawson, a former British Cabinet member, writes in his new book "An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming": "Over the past two-and-a-half-million years, a period during which the planet's climate fluctuated substantially, remarkably few of the
earth's millions of plant and animal species became extinct. This applies not least, incidentally, to polar bears, which have been around for millennia, during which there is ample evidence that polar temperatures have varied considerably."
But Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne says the "threatened" label is mandatory because sea ice has been melting and computer models postulate future melting caused by human activity. So, now that human activity is assumed to be the primary cause, or even a measurable cause, of warming, the decision to classify the bears as threatened has become a mighty lever.
Now that polar bears are wards of the government, and now that it is a legal doctrine that humans are responsible for global warming, the Endangered Species Act has acquired unlimited application. Anything that can be said to increase global warming can - must - be said to threaten bears already designated as threatened.
Want to build a power plant in Arizona? A building in Florida? Do you want to drive an SUV? Or leave your cell phone charger plugged in overnight? Some judge might construe federal policy as proscribing these activities. Kempthorne says such uses of the act, unintended by those who wrote it in 1973, would be "wholly inappropriate." But in 1973, climate Cassandras were saying that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age" (Science Digest, February 1973). And no authors of the Constitution or the Fourteenth Amendment intended to create a "fundamental" right to abortion, but there it is.
No one can anticipate or control the implications that judges might discover in the polar bear designation. Give litigious environmentalists a compliant judge and the Endangered Species Act might become what New Dealers wanted the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 to be - authority to regulate almost everything.
What Friedrich Hayek called the "fatal conceit" - the idea that government can know the future's possibilities and can and should control the future's unfolding - is the left's agenda. The left exists to enlarge the state's supervision of life, narrowing individual choices in the name of collective goods. Hence the left's hostility to markets. And to automobiles - people going wherever they want whenever they want.
Today's "green left" is the old "red left" revised. Marx, a short-term pessimist but a long-term optimist, prophesied deepening class conflict, but thought that history's violent dialectic would culminate in a revolution that would usher in material abundance and such spontaneous cooperation that the state would wither away.
The green left preaches pessimism: Ineluctable scarcities (of energy, food, animal habitats, humans' living space) will require a perpetual regime of comprehensive rationing. The green left understands that the direct route to government control of almost everything is to stigmatize, as a planetary menace, something involved in almost everything - carbon. Environmentalism is, as Lawson writes, an unlimited "license to intrude." "Eco-fundamentalism," which is "the quasi-religion of green alarmism," promises "global salvationism." Onward, green soldiers, into preventive war on behalf of some bears who are simultaneously flourishing and "threatened."
Article Launched: 05/21/2008 05:36:22 PM PDT
A preventive war worked out so well in Iraq that Washington last week launched another. The new preventive war - the government responding forcefully against a postulated future threat - has been declared on behalf of polar bears, the first species whose supposed jeopardy has been ascribed to global warming.
The Interior Department, bound by the Endangered Species Act, has declared polar bears a "threatened" species because they might be endangered "in the foreseeable future," meaning 45 years. (Note: 45 years ago, the now-long-forgotten global cooling menace of 35 years ago was not yet foreseen.) The bears will be threatened if the current episode of warming, if there really is one, is, unlike all the previous episodes, irreversible, and if it intensifies, and if it continues to melt sea ice vital to the bears, and if the bears, unlike in many previous warming episodes, cannot adapt.
Because of restrictions on hunting, polar bears might be more numerous today than ever and might be twice as numerous as they were three decades ago - when the media were fanning frenzy about global cooling. (The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1975, reported "many signs" that "Earth may be heading for another ice age.") As Nigel Lawson, a former British Cabinet member, writes in his new book "An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming": "Over the past two-and-a-half-million years, a period during which the planet's climate fluctuated substantially, remarkably few of the
earth's millions of plant and animal species became extinct. This applies not least, incidentally, to polar bears, which have been around for millennia, during which there is ample evidence that polar temperatures have varied considerably."
But Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne says the "threatened" label is mandatory because sea ice has been melting and computer models postulate future melting caused by human activity. So, now that human activity is assumed to be the primary cause, or even a measurable cause, of warming, the decision to classify the bears as threatened has become a mighty lever.
Now that polar bears are wards of the government, and now that it is a legal doctrine that humans are responsible for global warming, the Endangered Species Act has acquired unlimited application. Anything that can be said to increase global warming can - must - be said to threaten bears already designated as threatened.
Want to build a power plant in Arizona? A building in Florida? Do you want to drive an SUV? Or leave your cell phone charger plugged in overnight? Some judge might construe federal policy as proscribing these activities. Kempthorne says such uses of the act, unintended by those who wrote it in 1973, would be "wholly inappropriate." But in 1973, climate Cassandras were saying that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age" (Science Digest, February 1973). And no authors of the Constitution or the Fourteenth Amendment intended to create a "fundamental" right to abortion, but there it is.
No one can anticipate or control the implications that judges might discover in the polar bear designation. Give litigious environmentalists a compliant judge and the Endangered Species Act might become what New Dealers wanted the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 to be - authority to regulate almost everything.
What Friedrich Hayek called the "fatal conceit" - the idea that government can know the future's possibilities and can and should control the future's unfolding - is the left's agenda. The left exists to enlarge the state's supervision of life, narrowing individual choices in the name of collective goods. Hence the left's hostility to markets. And to automobiles - people going wherever they want whenever they want.
Today's "green left" is the old "red left" revised. Marx, a short-term pessimist but a long-term optimist, prophesied deepening class conflict, but thought that history's violent dialectic would culminate in a revolution that would usher in material abundance and such spontaneous cooperation that the state would wither away.
The green left preaches pessimism: Ineluctable scarcities (of energy, food, animal habitats, humans' living space) will require a perpetual regime of comprehensive rationing. The green left understands that the direct route to government control of almost everything is to stigmatize, as a planetary menace, something involved in almost everything - carbon. Environmentalism is, as Lawson writes, an unlimited "license to intrude." "Eco-fundamentalism," which is "the quasi-religion of green alarmism," promises "global salvationism." Onward, green soldiers, into preventive war on behalf of some bears who are simultaneously flourishing and "threatened."
Hi Walter,
Machen Sie Speisenspaß von mir?
Polar Bear and forget about the rest--Just focus on Polar Bear, Polar Bear Greenpeace-good boy
Point is numerous -birds, reptiles , insects, fishes, mammals, amphibians etc. populations are decreasing
at an alarming rate. If you live in a rural area, Walter, you must be aware . If you reside and play in urban areas continous observation is impossible. One may only have a few days to count the fish, the frogs, turtles, Snowshoe Hares--YAH see when they is breedin, the Hares on frozen snow on a full moon night in March they so horny that you kin step right up and watch em----you gotta hit the right nights for each
In the early to late 1970's, during the summer, Radio, Newspaper and TV would ask all in Bonita Springs, Florida to close their windows and stay inside from 1 until 2. Twice a week.
Three DC3s-single engine jets in formation, made passes several hundered feet up and fog came out. After a few years no mosquitoes, no frogs no mollies, --all gone- from thirteen turtles on a log to one or none, butterflies? , On our back door in 1974 there were 100+little tree frogs chirping, geko eggs everywhere--- last summer I found one OLD treefrog in my old well--he wasn't there at Christmas but he may have relocated ??
-we drink out of bottles?? Just think Polar Bear, Whale, Cute Baby seals
And if you find the shelves short of food, animals find it poisonous-- animals that we don't even bother like bees are not around in in numbers in South Central Ontario
-some animal groups -garbage eaters have really increased their numbers-like the Canada Goose<<<has become an infestation
but we have a Polar Bear special-
Machen Sie Speisenspaß von mir?
Polar Bear and forget about the rest--Just focus on Polar Bear, Polar Bear Greenpeace-good boy
Point is numerous -birds, reptiles , insects, fishes, mammals, amphibians etc. populations are decreasing
at an alarming rate. If you live in a rural area, Walter, you must be aware . If you reside and play in urban areas continous observation is impossible. One may only have a few days to count the fish, the frogs, turtles, Snowshoe Hares--YAH see when they is breedin, the Hares on frozen snow on a full moon night in March they so horny that you kin step right up and watch em----you gotta hit the right nights for each
In the early to late 1970's, during the summer, Radio, Newspaper and TV would ask all in Bonita Springs, Florida to close their windows and stay inside from 1 until 2. Twice a week.
Three DC3s-single engine jets in formation, made passes several hundered feet up and fog came out. After a few years no mosquitoes, no frogs no mollies, --all gone- from thirteen turtles on a log to one or none, butterflies? , On our back door in 1974 there were 100+little tree frogs chirping, geko eggs everywhere--- last summer I found one OLD treefrog in my old well--he wasn't there at Christmas but he may have relocated ??
-we drink out of bottles?? Just think Polar Bear, Whale, Cute Baby seals
And if you find the shelves short of food, animals find it poisonous-- animals that we don't even bother like bees are not around in in numbers in South Central Ontario
-some animal groups -garbage eaters have really increased their numbers-like the Canada Goose<<<has become an infestation
but we have a Polar Bear special-