Regis Philbin
May 20th, 2007, 10:00 PM
Now wait just a doggone minute here! :redmad:
Al Gore said polar bears are going to be wiped out by global warming...why are their numbers increasing? Must be an error in the polling data somewhere. The American Republicans must have told the bears to cheat. They must have fudged the numbers somehow. There needs to be a "probe".
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p13s01-wogi.html
Canadian controversy: How do polar bears fare?
Despite global warming, an ongoing study says polar bear populations are rising in the country's eastern Arctic region.
By Fred Langan | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Page 1 of 3
Toronto - Polar bears are the poster animals of global warming. The image of a polar bear floating on an ice floe is one of the most dramatic visual statements in the fight against rising temperatures in the Arctic.
But global warming is not killing the polar bears of Canada's eastern Arctic, according to one ongoing study. Scheduled for release next year, it says the number of polar bears in the Davis Strait area of Canada's eastern Arctic – one of 19 polar bear populations worldwide – has grown to 2,100, up from 850 in the mid-1980s.
"There aren't just a few more bears. There are a ... lot more bears," biologist Mitchell Taylor told the Nunatsiaq News of Iqaluit in the Arctic territory of Nunavut. Earlier, in a long telephone conversation, Dr. Taylor explained his conviction that threats to polar bears from global warming are exaggerated and that their numbers are increasing. He has studied the animals for the Nunavut government for two decades.
Updates from the study by Taylor and his team have received significant media coverage in Canada, shaking the image of the polar bear as endangered.
"I don't think there is any question polar bears are threatened by global warming," responds Andrew Derocher of the World Conservation Union and a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He spoke by phone from Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories 1,800 miles to the west of Davis Strait.
Al Gore said polar bears are going to be wiped out by global warming...why are their numbers increasing? Must be an error in the polling data somewhere. The American Republicans must have told the bears to cheat. They must have fudged the numbers somehow. There needs to be a "probe".
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p13s01-wogi.html
Canadian controversy: How do polar bears fare?
Despite global warming, an ongoing study says polar bear populations are rising in the country's eastern Arctic region.
By Fred Langan | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Page 1 of 3
Toronto - Polar bears are the poster animals of global warming. The image of a polar bear floating on an ice floe is one of the most dramatic visual statements in the fight against rising temperatures in the Arctic.
But global warming is not killing the polar bears of Canada's eastern Arctic, according to one ongoing study. Scheduled for release next year, it says the number of polar bears in the Davis Strait area of Canada's eastern Arctic – one of 19 polar bear populations worldwide – has grown to 2,100, up from 850 in the mid-1980s.
"There aren't just a few more bears. There are a ... lot more bears," biologist Mitchell Taylor told the Nunatsiaq News of Iqaluit in the Arctic territory of Nunavut. Earlier, in a long telephone conversation, Dr. Taylor explained his conviction that threats to polar bears from global warming are exaggerated and that their numbers are increasing. He has studied the animals for the Nunavut government for two decades.
Updates from the study by Taylor and his team have received significant media coverage in Canada, shaking the image of the polar bear as endangered.
"I don't think there is any question polar bears are threatened by global warming," responds Andrew Derocher of the World Conservation Union and a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He spoke by phone from Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories 1,800 miles to the west of Davis Strait.