Comments on: Lawsuits Will Save the Polar Bear http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907 for environmentalists who don't take themselves too seriously Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:39:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: liairercisa http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907/comment-page-1#comment-178580 liairercisa Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:13:33 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907#comment-178580 I'm new here.. just wanted to say hi! I’m new here.. just wanted to say hi!

]]> By: Wonk Room » Blog Archive » Wildlife Director Traps Employees in Ethics Catch-22, Violates Own Code http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907/comment-page-1#comment-25209 Wonk Room » Blog Archive » Wildlife Director Traps Employees in Ethics Catch-22, Violates Own Code Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:03:12 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907#comment-25209 [...] under investigation by the Interior Inspector General for possibly violating the Scientific Code by repeatedly missing Endangered Species Act deadlines to list the polar bear, despite clear scientific [...] [...] under investigation by the Interior Inspector General for possibly violating the Scientific Code by repeatedly missing Endangered Species Act deadlines to list the polar bear, despite clear scientific [...]

]]> By: Duscany http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907/comment-page-1#comment-23635 Duscany Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:11:44 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907#comment-23635 It's hard to too excited over the alleged plight of the polar bears given that their numbers have gone up 400% (from 5,000 in ther 1960s to 25,000 today). No wonder one government biologist said that it's hard to justify puting an animal on the endangered species list when its numbers are increasing so fast. As for the notion that polar bears will starve if the polar icecap melts and they can't hunt seals, polar bears, like the grizzlies from which they are closely related and with which they sometimes interbreed, are omniverous creatures. They can and will eat the same things that grizzlies do. If grizzlies manage to make it through the winter earch year, polar bears can do the same thing. This notion that polar bears are going to vanish is an old wive's tale for scaring children and credulous city folk. We've had four previous warming periods like the current one in the last 1,500 years. The polar bears made it though those times just fine. They will make it through the current global warming too. That is, if they need to make it through anything. There is lots of evidence, including the current bitter winter and at the moment a larger and thicker ice pack than we've had for the past three winters, to suggest the latest warming cycle is over and we are already headed for cooler times. It’s hard to too excited over the alleged plight of the polar bears given that their numbers have gone up 400% (from 5,000 in ther 1960s to 25,000 today). No wonder one government biologist said that it’s hard to justify puting an animal on the endangered species list when its numbers are increasing so fast.

As for the notion that polar bears will starve if the polar icecap melts and they can’t hunt seals, polar bears, like the grizzlies from which they are closely related and with which they sometimes interbreed, are omniverous creatures. They can and will eat the same things that grizzlies do. If grizzlies manage to make it through the winter earch year, polar bears can do the same thing.

This notion that polar bears are going to vanish is an old wive’s tale for scaring children and credulous city folk. We’ve had four previous warming periods like the current one in the last 1,500 years. The polar bears made it though those times just fine. They will make it through the current global warming too.

That is, if they need to make it through anything. There is lots of evidence, including the current bitter winter and at the moment a larger and thicker ice pack than we’ve had for the past three winters, to suggest the latest warming cycle is over and we are already headed for cooler times.

]]> By: Endangered Species http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907/comment-page-1#comment-23579 Endangered Species Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:46:00 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/lawsuits-will-save-the-polar-bear/907#comment-23579 Don't knock the legal system! Squeaky Wheels need some way to get the grease. The "frivolous lawsuit" myth is pushed by the right wing, but in reality it's pretty hard to file a lawsuit -- some people I know considered filing a medical malpractice lawsuit, and found that it would cost them $25,000 to $50,000 just to get started. Don’t knock the legal system! Squeaky Wheels need some way to get the grease.

The “frivolous lawsuit” myth is pushed by the right wing, but in reality it’s pretty hard to file a lawsuit — some people I know considered filing a medical malpractice lawsuit, and found that it would cost them $25,000 to $50,000 just to get started.

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