Polar bear numbers have tripled, says new Canadian study
Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 08:36AM Far from warranting placement on the latest Green extinction list, a new Canadian study reveals that polar bear number in have tripled since the 1980s. Though most Greens on Planet Gore are not particularly interested in facts, those of us who live on Planet Earth might might be pleased to be acquainted (and perhaps email friends) with this good news (unless you are a seal or PB fodder) from yesterday's National Post:
"Their status ranges from a "vulnerable" to "endangered" and could be declared "threatened" if the U.S. decides the polar bear is collateral damage of climate change. Nobody talks about "overpopulated" when discussing the bears' outlook.
"Yet despite the Canadian government 's $150-million commitment last week to fund 44 International Polar Year research projects, a key question is not up for detailed scientific assessment: If the polar bear is the 650-kilogram canary in the climate change coal mine, why are its numbers INCREASING?
"The latest government survey of polar bears roaming the vast Arctic expanses of northern Quebec, Labrador and southern Baffin Island show the population of polar bears has jumped to 2,100 animals from around 800 in the mid-1980s.
Even so, facts don't seem to weigh too heavily with Democrat Congressmen politicians from Seattle.
Ed. The only thing I don't understand is how you're supposed to get a polar bear down a mine shaft...
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dangle Al Gore down the mine shaft, it will find a way down!