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[Global Warming is Real] Government Misses Another Deadline for Endangered Arctic Species ...: The National Marine and Fisheries Service had posted a press release on March 13th stating its intention to study ice seals (including the bearded, spotted, and ring seals) for listing under the Endangered Species Act - a link to a page .
[Tad Cronn] Global warming: Bearing up: he claimed that many polar bears were drowning as they swam up to 60 miles in search of ice, one of nine claims that helped a British court decree that his film was a political movie and required a disclaimer before it could be shown in schools. According to British Justice Michael Burton, “The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm.”
[YubaNet.com] Government Misses Endangered Species Act Deadline for Ice Seal ...: In addition to loss of its sea-ice habitat from global warming, the ribbon seal faces threats from oil and gas development in its habitat, and the growth of shipping in the increasingly ice-free Arctic. Last month, important summer feeding areas for the ribbon seal in the Chukchi Sea were leased for oil development, while seismic surveys are planned for the area this summer.
[NO BULL] Interview with Sy Garte, author of "Where We Stand": As for the political aspects of this situation, I've noticed that government, more than any other organization, produces policy in both cautious as well as copycat ways. So rather than take what Brazil has done with Ethanol and improve on it, or use their process and adjust it, they merely copycat their efforts and foist an artificial solution (that is backed up by corn lobbies) on the public by throwing money at the problem.
[Please Do Not Tap On the Glass] The Answers You Seek: Scroll down my sidebar to the categories and click “factory farming.” stop global warming, endangered animals What are you trying to stop here, young searcher? Global warming pollution or endangered animals?
[Tizona's Weblog] Senate Keeps Focus on Polar Bear”¦LMAO.: “It has become clear that listing the bear as a threatened species is not about protecting the bear but about using the ESA to achieve global warming policy that special interest groups cannot otherwise achieve through the legislative process”
[zimblr.com] WELCOME TO THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY: At least that’s the real threat according to many attendees at the recent Heartland Institute conference on global warming. And let’s not forget, as physicist and noted contrarian S.
[Nolavth's Weblog] More Right-wing Hysteria Over Al Gore: Attempting to paint Gore as an environmental hypocrite, BlogsForBush, NewsBusters, and others expressed outrage over the hypocrisy. But, as the Telegraph reports today, “Al GoreвЂâ™s fish dinner turns out green“: [T]he fish enjoyed by the Gores were not endangered or illegally caught. So how many thoughtful and serious scholars will now be forced to spend serious time proving that Al Gore is not secretly devouring all our endangered species? Gawd.
[scienceblogs Channel : Politics] Polar Bears and Global Warming [Greg Laden's Blog]: Equally challenging to Republicans is thenotion that, since polar bears are ice deopendnet, and loss of ice lead to the listing petition in the first place, businesses in the US might be forced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the ESA, a statute with stronger citizen lawsuit provisions then the Clean Air Act. Essentially, with an ESA listing comes the very real possibility that power plants (as one example) might have to meet tight emission controls to keep their federal generation licenses because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commisssion has to comply withthe ESA in issuing licenses.
[Green Times] Polar Bear Rugs Endangered as Global Warming Pushes Hunt Limit: Global warming is putting Dave Mason’s $40,000 polar bear expeditions at risk.The Bush administration is considering a proposal to declare the animals a threatened species. Protected status would make it illegal to import bear trophies, eliminating a selling point for Mason and other brokers peddling 10- to 12-day Canadian Arctic adventures to U.S. hunters.
[Save the animals] Full Court Press on Greenhouse Gas Pollution Needed to Save Polar ...: “Americans should be outraged that inaction by our government and stalling measures on global warming from corporations like Exxon that are driving the majestic polar bear into oblivion,” said Melanie Duchin, Greenpeace global warming campaigner in Alaska. “Congress needs to kick into high gear on global warming legislation.
[Care2 News Network] Government Misses Endangered Species Act Deadline for Ice Seal ...: "Under the Endangered Species Act, seals, whales, and dolphins are under the jurisdiction of the Fisheries Service, while polar bears and walruses are under the jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Fish and Wildlife Service is more than two months late in issuing a final rule to protect the polar bear;
[What's Your Wedge?] Global warming hastens arrival of springtime: effect on plants and ...: Critters are stirring. Buds are swelling. Biologists are worrying. “The alarm clock that all the plants and animals are listening to is running too fast,” Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. Blame global warming. ...
[Radiological Dispersion Devices] Visual Media in An Inconvenient Truth: During this part of the film, he shows a series of images and videos that give the audience visual evidence that global warming is an issue and depict the reasons why it is an issue. Some of these images include time series pictures of glaciers and snow on mountains melting, animals that will be endangered because of changing climates, and victims from Hurricane Katrina.
[Global Warming - RSS Feed] 2 from UVA warn of what global warming could mean to animals: Polar bears, walruses and ribbon seals use sea ice as platforms for reproducing and feeding. If the ice disappears, doesn't remain long enough or becomes too thin, the animals' numbers could drop drastically as the parents don't adequately reproduce and abandoned youngsters starve.
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