Forget about 'threatened', we want 'ENDANGERED'
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Forget about 'threatened', we want 'ENDANGERED'
Critics: Polar bear plan must fight global warming
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Conservation groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials' refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species Act.
In court documents filed late Friday, the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups asked a federal judge to reject Interior Department actions that were announced last week.
Polar bears are threatened with extinction in many areas because of the melting of their sea ice habitat. The groups say greenhouse gas emissions have led to rapid melting in the Arctic.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, facing a court deadline because of the groups' earlier lawsuit, had announced Wednesday that polar bears would be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Kassie Siegel, climate director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said the administration's proposal "violates both logic and the law" because it did not address the primary threat to polar bears. The listing of polar bears under the law is significant, she acknowledged, but the groups want them classified as endangered, a more serious category than threatened.
Joining in the court case were Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council. They announced their new federal court filing on Tuesday.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Polar_Bears.html
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Re: Forget about 'threatened', we want 'ENDANGERED'
Compare sea ice from 2o years ago to today...
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Re: Forget about 'threatened', we want 'ENDANGERED'
Armon Ayers wrote:Compare sea ice from 20 years ago to today...
OK, then compare the Polar Bear population increase to the decrease in sea ice.
And here I have done that by adding a Polar Bear "line" onto the following graph.
Thus, if in the past 40 years the world’s Polar Bear population has increased from 12,000 to 25,000, ......... then in the past 20 years that increase was probably from 18,000 to 25,000. To wit:
Thus, it is quite obvious to me that the more ice that melts, the better nourishment the Polar Bears are getting ........ and their survival and birth rates are increasing.
A Canadian Press Newswire story earlier this year reported that, in three Arctic villages, polar bears “are so abundant there’s a public safety issue.” The local polar bear population reportedly increased from about 2,100 in 1997 to as many as 2,600 in 2004. Inuit hunters wanted to be able to kill more bears because they are “fearsome predators.”
An aerial survey of Alaskan polar bears published in Arctic (December 2003) reported a greater polar bear density than previous survey estimates dating back to 1987.
http://www.junkscience.com/fox/milloy111204.html
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