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Are Polar Bears Really Disappearing?
Wall Street Journal, by Zack Unger
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/9/2013 1:05:25 PM
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| I knew I was in trouble when the biologist from the Manitoba Conservation Department sat down next to me. "The bears look good," he said. "I haven´t seen them this fat in years." We´d both been hanging around the tiny town of Churchill, Manitoba, ground zero for everything having to do with polar bears. Every fall the town is overrun with bears waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze. The bears, in turn, are trailed by herds of tourists, tour guides, scientists, green-leaning types and B-list celebrities—all looking for communion with The Most Important Animal of Our Time.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JediJerry, 2/9/2013 1:33:57 PM (No. 9167577)
It can´t be too bad for the big white fluffie garbage dump varmints, just look at dub dub dub dot polarbearhunts dot net, sign up and participate in true wildlife conservation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
horacer, 2/9/2013 1:48:18 PM (No. 9167595)
The population is growing and they´re getting fat. Rats. All those poor PhD´s who live for the demise of another species. It must be so hard for them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 2/9/2013 2:49:43 PM (No. 9167668)
I hate those stinking polar bears. Black bears and even Grizzly bears normally avoid people. But to a polar bear you are lunch. It doesn´t have to sit by a hole in the ice waiting for a seal to come up for air. All it has to do is out run you. And when you go out of the igloo to the mail box they are waiting for you. Plus being lily white they are racist bears. Give me a brown, black, or even a panda bear. Those Russian circuses always have brown and black bears for a reason. The only thing a polar bear wants to do is eat you.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 2/9/2013 3:22:22 PM (No. 9167696)
Animals highest on the food chain are the last to be at risk, and the polar bear is the highest, other than an armed human. Unarmed humans are food.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
msjena, 2/9/2013 3:44:45 PM (No. 9167726)
Maybe they will simply evolve into a new species. Survival of the fittest and all...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Grant Hodges, 2/9/2013 4:08:30 PM (No. 9167750)
The information to know polar bear populations are increasing has been available for years. Its just that it isn´t popular to know this fact. I did the research about five years ago, checking on the various populations as recorded on web resources. They were growing then and all indications were they had been growing for some time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ASAvet, 2/9/2013 4:17:54 PM (No. 9167759)
Several years ago (six or seven) I read a Canadian report about these bears. There were eleven distinct population groups, and of those nine were stable, one was growing and one was declining. The reason for the decline was there were so damn many of them harassing/killing people that the gov´t declared a hunting season on them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dvc, 2/9/2013 5:08:49 PM (No. 9167807)
Of course not, this has always been just another leftist econNazi lie.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Srhea, 2/9/2013 5:19:37 PM (No. 9167820)
Another sky is falling scenario perpetrated upon the people that have other things to do than worry about a merciless predator who likes to live in the cold.
I´m glad that they are not going to be extinct as that hurts the world. I just wish the doomsayers would become extinct and that only truth is spoken.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 2/9/2013 5:26:15 PM (No. 9167829)
NO, no and no.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Salt5792, 2/9/2013 6:39:32 PM (No. 9167900)
It was a mistake for GWB to allow his SecInterior to declare that Polar Bears were endangered.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
billp, 2/9/2013 7:58:43 PM (No. 9167949)
It sounds like they´d be fine if their ´cheerleaders´ would quit harassing the daylights out of them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 2/10/2013 9:05:40 AM (No. 9168436)
No.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
harper, 2/10/2013 2:36:03 PM (No. 9168917)
They are a Dirt Worship icon and they will remain endangered until the media arm of DW says otherwise.
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