Which means you didnt' do any research....Originally Posted by Trigg
You also didn't count how many each side had because if you had, you'd still be counting if there were really "millions per side"...
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Which means you didnt' do any research....
You also didn't count how many each side had because if you had, you'd still be counting if there were really "millions per side"...
Extra Heavy
They wouldn't starve OR drown if we hunted them into extinction.
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Why are you nit-picking her? the point was this: Given Google and 3 minutes, one could find MANY (As in 'A shit load') of articles which are both Pro and Con of this issue.
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Because she claimed there are "millions of articles" supporting both sides... and I'm just asking her to prove it....
I HIGHLY doubt she counted them all - much less took the time to read each one to see which side they support...
It doesn't help anyone to make empty claims like that....
secret agent mouse
I can't believe you are getting your panties in such a twist over this.
I googled polar bears and noticed there were MANY articles for both arguments. I then read through a few and pulled out one I thought was interresting.
Geez
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Well, thanks to the benefit of context I'm very sure most people know by 'millions' she meant 'many'. IMO, you're being too picky.
btw - tomorrow night - show up around 6:30, aight?
“… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.
Transplanted Yankee
The answer is simple...everybody chill!How can we stop the polar bear from dying out due to global warming?
Scoundrel
You just reminded me of one of the worst movies of all time. It rhymes with Fatman and Bobbin.
"Lighght"
- This 'poem' was bought and paid for with $2,250 of YOUR money.
Name one thing the government does better than the private sector and I'll show you something that requires the use of force to accomplish.
nuke-u-lar get it right
Well no shit sherlock of course she didn't count them all. Do you count every article that comes up on google or yahoo that relates to a topic you post on. I think we should hold you accountable in the future to make sure you are giving us a running count of all articles.
I for one used COMMON sense and realized that "millions" meant a whole lot.
Do you always take everything "literaly"??
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Nobody liked my custom animation of the bear swatting the head off the seal?? C'mon!
“… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.
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I loved it ! Good job----I watched it 1 million times !!!Nobody liked my custom animation of the bear swatting the head off the seal?? C'mon!
A nutcase will do nutty things.
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The bears are drowning in search of food, not getaways.
Actually, I have found that most of the reliable sources state they are dying out.
I only posted that once. Pictures sometimes help to get the word out faster. It's important to make one's posts visually attractive, otherwise, they get drowned amongst all the tremendously negative posts on here.
That study was likely not conducted in a scientific fashion. Some of the local hunters think the number of bears are increasing as more move inland in search of food but in actuality they do so simply because they cannot find food close to the floes on the coast and also because the floes are drifting futher apart.
These are exactly the type of comments that are not required. The point of the OP was to ask how to save the bears, not discuss different ways of killing them.
Once again, how would you propose saving the bears?
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The question is, how?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/fe..._printout.html
The Arctic is warming at a faster pace than any other part of the world, according to a new report - the most complete evaluation of the Earth's northern cap - released Monday.
A rise in temperature around the North Pole is melting large areas of Arctic ice, causing dramatic weather changes and declines in populations of polar bears and walruses, among other changes, scientists say.
While Arctic warming has been going on for decades and has been studied before, this is the first thorough assessment of the causes and consequences of the trend. The report supports the broad but politically controversial scientific consensus that global warming is caused mainly by heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
"While some historical changes in climate have resulted from natural causes and variations, the strength of the trends and the patterns of change that have emerged in recent decades indicate that human influences, resulting primarily from increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, have now become the dominant factor," according the report.
The findings are likely to increase pressure on the Bush administration, which has acknowledged a possible human role in global warming but says the science is still too murky to justify mandatory reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
The Arctic Council, a group made up of Canada, the United States, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, commissioned the 140-page Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). Nearly 300 scientists worked on the study, as did elders from the native communities in the region.
The group found that the region's temperatures have risen almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 100 years, which is twice the global average. Average winter temperatures have risen 4 degrees. But in specific areas of Alaska and Russia the temperature changes have been more dramatic - an 11-degree increase in winter temperatures since the 1970s.
The rising temperatures have decreased the amount of the ocean that is covered by ice to the lowest amount ever recorded. The Greenland ice cap and other Arctic glaciers could disappear in summers by 2060-2100, according to scientists, who worry that the resulting rise in ocean levels could cause flooding at ocean coasts all over the world.
Impact on Indigenous peoples
The impact on the people living in the Arctic has been dramatic. Indigenous people report hunters falling through melting sea ice; declining polar bears, walruses, ice-living seals, and reindeer - all primary sources of food; and difficulty traveling in roadless areas where there is no snow for sleds and snowmobiles.
In some more developed areas, the permanently frozen layer of earth -- the permafrost -- has melted, destabilizing buildings and causing roads to crack.
Many young people in the area face increased chances of skin cancers and immune system disorders due to heightened exposure to ultraviolet radiation - estimated at about 30 percent higher than any earlier generation.
"Global warming connects us all," Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian Inuit who chairs the Inuit Circumpolar Council, told the Los Angeles Times. "The Arctic is the world's health barometer, and the Inuit are the mercury in that barometer."
Why?
Most of the warming is blamed on increased use of fossil fuels like crude oil, natural gas and coal, which create greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases have increased in the atmosphere by almost 30 percent since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuels, which are used in cars, factories and power plants, make up 80 percent of the world's energy use.
The Arctic is especially vulnerable to warming because snow and ice reflect heat and when they melt, the dark ground and water accelerate the warming by absorbing heat.
"The polar regions are essentially the Earth's air conditioner," explained Michael McCracken, president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. "Imagine the Earth having a less efficient air conditioner."
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Transplanted Yankee
Again the answer is obvious...take theseand call Algore in the morning.
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I take it literal when she's making claims of things in context with the term "millions of sites".....Well no shit sherlock of course she didn't count them all. Do you count every article that comes up on google or yahoo that relates to a topic you post on. I think we should hold you accountable in the future to make sure you are giving us a running count of all articles.
I for one used COMMON sense and realized that "millions" meant a whole lot.
Do you always take everything "literaly"??
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