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Polar Bears Are Smarter Than Them

Hey folks,

In the Health and Science segment today, let’s talk about what made BIG news on Friday and Saturday. The Polar Bears are dying!!!! And It’s ALL your fault. Didn’t they do this already? Fake Polar Bear Pictures, ETC? Anyway, THEY ARE DYING,,again.

It doesn’t matter where you looked, the basic jist is YOU, through Global Warming of course, are killing off the Polar Bears. I mean ANYWHERE you looked.

AFP -Shrinking ice could put polar bear on endangered list: US
AP- Polar bear population seen declining
Reuters -Most polar bears could be lost by 2050: report

Just to name a few. A group, lead by a Steve Amstrup,

“who is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the Unites States Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center, Anchorage AK. He holds a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Washington (1972), a M.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Idaho (1975), and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Management from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1995). He has been conducting research on all aspects of polar bear ecology in the Beaufort Sea for 24 years. His interests include distribution and movement patterns as well as population dynamics of wildlife, and how information on those topics can be used to assure wise stewardship. He is particularly interested in how science can help to reconcile the ever enlarging human footprint on our environment with the needs of other species for that same environment. Prior work experiences include studies of black bears in central Idaho, and pronghorns and grouse in Wyoming. On their honeymoon in New Zealand in 1999, Steven and his wife Virginia helped in a tagging study of little blue penguins. That experience gave Steve the honor of being one of the very few people ever to have been bitten by both polar bears and penguins.”

wrote a report saying that Global Warming is killing the Polar Bears. {Sigh} He is a card carrying member of the Chicken Little Crowd. Who do you think FUNDS all these hops around the world? Anyway, According to Reuters -Most polar bears could be lost by 2050: report By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment CorrespondentFri Sep 7, 6:27 PM ET

Two-thirds of the world's polar bear population could be gone by midcentury if predictions of melting sea ice hold true, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Friday.

STOP!! Follow this with me.

Two-thirds of the world's polar bear population could be gone by midcentury if predictions of melting sea ice hold true, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Friday.

The fate of polar bears could be even bleaker than that estimate, because sea ice in the Arctic might be vanishing faster than the available computer models predict, the geological survey said in a report aimed at determining whether the big white bear should be listed as a threatened species.

STOP!! The fate of polar bears could be even bleaker, sea ice in the Arctic might be vanishing faster than the available computer models predict. Who puts in the information? A computer is great. But ALWAYS remember this, it only knows what it is TOLD to know.

"There is a definite link between changes in the sea ice and the welfare of polar bears," said Steve Amstrup, who led the research team. Arctic sea ice is already at an all-time low this year and is expected to retreat farther this month, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center.

That means that polar bears -- some 16,000 of them -- will disappear by 2050 from parts of the Arctic where sea ice is melting most rapidly, along the north coasts of Alaska and Russia, researchers said in a telephone briefing.

OK enough. But GET THIS. From the AP- Polar bear population seen declining By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press WriterSat Sep 8, 3:35 AM ET

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — and the entire population gone from Alaska — because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.

STOP!!! AGAIN!!

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — and the entire population gone from Alaska — because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.

It’s a done deal folks. It WILL happen. Not. Even the “Government Scientist” Say “might, could, possibly, ETC” Because there is NO scientific PROOF that Global Warming even exists, let alone it being manmade.

Only in the northern Canadian Arctic islands and the west coast of Greenland are any of the world's 16,000 polar bears expected to survive through the end of the century, said the U.S. Geological Survey, which is the scientific arm of the Interior Department.

Really? Proof of this is? If it’s GLOBAL WARMING, would they not die too?

USGS projects that polar bears during the next half-century will disappear along the north coasts of Alaska and Russia and lose 42 percent of the Arctic range they need to live in during summer in the Polar Basin when they hunt and breed. A polar bear's life usually lasts about 30 years.

There’s “WILL” again. Done deal. Nothing you can do to stop it. Really?

"Projected changes in future sea ice conditions, if realized, will result in loss of approximately two-thirds of the world's current polar bear population by the mid 21st century," the report says.

“IF REALIZED” Not a done deal. It’s a HYPOTHESES. A theory. With nothing backing it up. Besides, who says Global Warming is bad? According to LiveScience.com-Global Warming Good News: No More Ice Ages By Andrea Thomson

Finally, there’s some "good" news about global warming: All that carbon dioxide we’ve emitted into the atmosphere could mean no more ice ages anytime soon, new research says.

Most research into the effects of the carbon dioxide accumulating in our atmosphere has looked ahead only to the next century or two.

But the emitted carbon dioxide isn't just going to disappear after that—research has shown that some of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now will hang around for quite awhile, probably tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. So the effects of burning fossil fuels today will extend long beyond the next couple hundred years, possibly delaying the onset of Earth's next ice age, says researcher Toby Tyrrell of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.

So we are saving ourselves. This IS good news .

Advancing ice

Ice ages naturally occur about every 100,000 years or so as the pattern of Earth's orbit changes with time and alters the way the sun strikes the planet's surface.

When less solar energy hits a given area of the surface, temperatures become cooler (this is what causes the difference in temperatures between summer and winter). Long-term changes in Earth's orbit that cause less solar energy to hit the surface can cool down summer temperatures so that less ice melts at the poles.

CYCLES! Natural cycles.

If ice sheets and glaciers don't melt a bit in the summer, the ice accumulates and starts to advance—in past ice ages, sheets of ice covered all of Canada and most of the Northern United States.

Notice what time of year it is? They are warning of Global Warming melting the ice?

The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is also an important factor in triggering an ice age. In the past, lower carbon dioxide levels (caused by natural processes) helped cool the Earth and again allowed ice to advance.

Rising carbon dioxide levels, as is the case with global warming, can have the opposite effect.

So we are doing good. We should burn MORE fossil fuels. We need more cows farting. We need to save ourselves from the coming ICE AGE,,,,wait,,oh yeah, they were warning about that in the 70's. Well, maybe we just got a little over ambitions. We heated things up too much. {Sigh}

Folks, we cannot control the natural cycles of the earth if we TRIED. It is all bunk. It’s all about money and control. It’s natural. It happens over and over again. I’m telling you, these Polar Bears are smarter then these people. They are living their lives happy and carefree. Playing, eating, sleeping. They couldn’t careless what you drive, the bulbs in your house, or how much a cow farts. They are not the ones running around saying the sky is falling.
Peter


Sources:
AFP -Shrinking ice could put polar bear on endangered list: US
AP- Polar bear population seen declining
Reuters -Most polar bears could be lost by 2050: report
USGS- Reports
LiveScience.com-Global Warming Good News: No More Ice Ages
Polor Bears International