Alaska Fights to Reverse Polar Bear "Threatened" Listing

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What do you mean "Over millions of years and killed 97% of the life on earth"?

PAXTON of NM 1:12PM May 11, 2010

Polar Bears are not meant for collors cuz they are wild animals.

Heather of TX 1:32PM March 10, 2010

Believe this: Parnell, you will NOT be elected to a second term.

life long Alaskan of AK 9:11PM December 10, 2009

1. Maybe, but the second part is irrelevant, the oil in WWII didn't spill in the arctic.
2. True; THEY WERE PROTECTED!
3. Site a source for that one buddy. The Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) has only been distinct from Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) about 20,000 years ago at most.
4. That is a political statement, your point?
5. And kill hundreds or thousand of unique species and have far worse consiquese then that plus, ever hear of the Humboldt squid?
6. Over millions of years and killed 97% of the life on earth.
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Adam of AK 2:58PM December 10, 2009

A few quick bullet points;
1. More oil spilled into the world's oceans every year of World War II than in the entire 65 years since the wars end. Polar bears and the oceans seem to have weathered that storm okay. In comparison, the Exxon Valdez wasn't even a drop in the bucket. The clean up was far more injurious to the ecosystem than the spill.
2 Polar bear populations have increased for the past 3 decades.
3. Polar bears survived previous meltings of the polar ice caps and sea ice...ah... before modern man.
4. This is just another example of government using the environmental/global
warming cudgel to beat populations under their control into the party line.
5. If long term Global Warming were a fact it would provide more areas of arable land for crops and biomass.
6. Co2 concentrations have been higher before the advent of man. Stuff grew and it all worked out.
Remember, it's more fun sitting under a palm tree than a glacier - Fear the return of the ice - it's a civilization killer.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:54PM November 16, 2009