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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do, to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see....I'm in The Red Queen's Race
Brrrr....Spring Still Could be Warmer, Couldn't It?
By Janet Evans
Wednesday, May 14 2008, 05:31 PM
I guess it can’t be blamed on global warming climate change, though.
I mean, if it was...we would consistently be getting warmer.
But our temperature keeps fluctuating and dipping back into low temperatures.
We even had a frost warning this past week.
Oh, well....
By the way, polar bears are now officially classified as "threatened with extinction."
"The animal, whose habitat has been shrinking with the melting of arctic sea ice, is the first to be designated as threatened with extinction mainly because of global warming."
"Today's decision came after a U.S. District Court in Oakland forced the Bush administration's hand by imposing a May 15 deadline for the decision that was supposed to have been completed by Jan. 9.
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"The court's deadline evolved from a lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to comply with a legal deadline for the decision and from another suit challenging the offshore leases. The Interior Department's inspector general then opened an investigation into allegations that the decision had been detained by "inappropriate political influence."
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"The proposal did not include a scientific analysis of the causes of climate change, which Kempthorne said was beyond the scope of scientific review under the Endangered Species Act. He directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work with the public and the scientific community to broaden understanding of what is happening to the species."
Read the full story from the Los Angeles Times É here
So, now what?
I sure hope El Niño pays very close attention…
"Populations Are Growing"
"Environmental activists have presented only one academic study that shows any negative effect of warming temperatures on polar bears. That study examined only one population of polar bears, in Canada's Western Hudson Bay, and linked the early breakup of ice in the bay to a 21 percent decline in the polar bear population.Other, more comprehensive research suggests the plight of that one population does not reflect the polar bear population trend as a whole.
Since the 1970s, while much of the world was warming, polar bear numbers increased dramatically, from roughly 5,000 to 25,000 bears, a higher polar bear population than has existed at any time in the twentieth century. "
ESA Listing Not Needed for Polar Bears É here
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