That's been news for a couple of days. Assuming that climate change is
something we could halt, even the best estimates seem to show a 10 or
more year lag between action and effect. Putting the Polar Bear on the
endangered list is an exercise in feel good activity. If the arctic ice
is melting as fast as some seem to think, Polar Bears will be extinct
long before anything done to stop it takes effect.
William Robb wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DagT" Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us?
>
>
> When did extremists use that kind of logic. Let´s wait and see what
> kinds of people they come up with when some countries almost
> disappear. My guess is that in that case it may be ugly.
>
> Regarding boats they´d have some sympathy from other countries in
> similar but not that bad situations, or simply want to take advantage
> of the situation. There´s enough of them.
>
> We'd send our war canoe.
> I just read in this mornings paper about a huge ice shelf that fell off of
> Ellesmere island. It is now a 66 sq km ice island.
> Apparently, it's getting warmer in the Arctic and weird things are
> happening.
>
> Weirder still, this just in from Washington:
> "The United States is proposing listing the polar bear as an endangered
> species, marking the first time the Bush administration has suggested
> climate change could be responsible for threatening an animal with
> extinction."
>
> William Robb
>
>
>
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