U.S. Wants Polar Bears Listed as Threatened

Just like in the Gore movie...Wonder if we can get him back for 2008..

By dougjan1 | Dec 27, 2006 12:28:44 AM | Request Removal

The earth has cancer and there is no stopping it....

By rickbra38 | Dec 27, 2006 12:45:43 AM | Request Removal

The enviros are creaming their tutus over this one. Got a power plant in Florida? Global Warming. Freeway in Texas? Global Warming Threatens Polar Bears. There will be no threshold to the lawsuits that can be brought because of a possible threat to polar bears. This will probably be the lawsuit that finally builds a consensus for Endangered Species Act reform that makes sense. Unemploy enough people or deny them the finer things, such as power and food and transport....oh yeah.

By daskinner | Dec 27, 2006 1:17:30 AM | Request Removal

Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth should be required viewing of Bush and every politian on Capitol hill. Global warming is not a fantasy and it is not just polar bears that are threatened but ALL living things.

By zkatsrus | Dec 27, 2006 1:27:18 AM | Request Removal

After all the corruption, lying, deceit, manipulation, and deviation initiated by this president, what finally made him reach a finger outside his pampered bubble. The polar bear. Even he knows that when it goes, we all go. Duh. Who is this idiot in the White House. And who were all the idiots who voted for him?

By cyngbond | Dec 27, 2006 5:24:19 AM | Request Removal

Its sad to see how many people are falling for Al Gore lies in his fictional movie. Everything he has claimed has been debunked by scientist as either exsaderation or lies. The earth is following a trend of warming and cooling that it has done for millions of years. The CO2 is only adding a faction of 1 percent to the temperature gain. When the scientist have taken the same computer models used by Al Gore and made the assumption that every piece of CO2 generating man made machine in the world was turned off it only slowed the temperature gain of the earth by 18 months over a 100 year period. So is it worth trillions and trillions of dollars, euros, and rubles to delay something that is going to happen anyway by 18 months. Al Gore is just using fear to try to get money. Man made global warming should really be called global scamming. Nature will adapt to change like it has in the past even if adaptation means extinction. Its even more disappointing that a good president like Bush is starting to fall into the global warming cult.

By rgould22 | Dec 27, 2006 6:02:03 AM | Request Removal

Why cant the bears just hunt from land then? This is just pandering after the election, figuring he can give up the bears. Once people start confronting the changes and costs that the environazis want theyll go up and shoot the friggin bears.

By ronjaboy | Dec 27, 2006 6:41:07 AM | Request Removal

Obviously, the sea ice is melting because the temperatures are warmer. Whos making these crazy speculative statements???

By joturner | Dec 27, 2006 7:08:51 AM | Request Removal

POLAR BEARS T-H-R-E-A-T-E-N-E-D? GOOOOOOOOOOOOD.

By Open_Woundz | Dec 27, 2006 7:45:57 AM | Request Removal

I notice that apparently the trolls who can no longer do their mischief at the Yahoo message boards Yahoo has removed them while they try to make their boards better have come to the Washington Post boards. I hope the Washington Post boards dont suffer as a result. We need the message boards if we are to be a true democracy that people can look up to.

By kind67 | Dec 27, 2006 8:06:04 AM | Request Removal

I apologize for the prior lack of necessary punctuation in my previous post on this article. I hit the post button too quickly! Regarding this issue, science--and scientists-- are overwhelmingly come out on the side that there is global warming, it threatens to destroy civilization and species, and we need to do something about it. Now it appears that politicians of both parties are learning that sometimes, at least, facts and objective scientific analysis trump ideology when they are in conflict.

By kind67 | Dec 27, 2006 8:11:45 AM | Request Removal

Here we go again. The polar bears are going to perish because of a few degrees temperature drop in the Artic. I wonder if you ever heard of nature, of cyclical weather conditions. How do we know that the exact temperatures that we are presently experiencing were not experienced one million years ago? How can we predict that polar will perish rather than simply adept to the change in the weather conditions and multiply, isn*t that what Darwin*s theory of evolution predicts? How do we know that your unconditional belief in what will happen in the future because of the green house or any other effect is not as misguided as your belief in natural selection which is now being debunked by your own scientific study of DNA? I think that the believers in Darwin and the Green House Effect need to stuff it. Please, completely prove your theories and then present them to the world until then, keep them to yourself.

By jimarush | Dec 27, 2006 8:14:01 AM | Request Removal

My high school alma mater was the Northridge High School, but our mascot was the Polar Bear. Hence, our nickname, the Polar Bears. Id hate to see them become extinct. Ill contact my Rep. John Boehner about implementing conservation steps to keep them alive. Go Polar Bears! Vaughn Beams Dayton, Ohio

By myhaven | Dec 27, 2006 8:15:26 AM | Request Removal

To little, to late. It makes me sad that there are still so many ignorant, arrogant humans that could care less about saving a marvelous species. These are the same people that could care less about the loss of human lives and the destruction of mother earth. Yes, our temps probably do cycle to a degree, but not this fast. America should be taking the lead in fighting global warming, not regimes or countries that do not kowtow to us. We as a people have immense power and influence to do good.

By banneroos | Dec 27, 2006 8:58:27 AM | Request Removal

ITS ABOUT TIME PEOPLE STARTED TO WISE UP ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND ITS EFFECTS. NO ACTION TAKEN WILL REPAIR THE DAMAGE BUT IT MAY HELP ALL THE SPECIES THAT ARE IN JEOPARDY.

By RNKITTYMOM | Dec 27, 2006 9:24:52 AM | Request Removal

to jimarush - even though there may not be conclusive evidence of global warming, most scientists recommend that we address the symptoms anyway. Our choices are 1. do nothing and hope this is a cyclical thing and life will be peachy keen, or 2. start making moderate changes to possibly reverse a trend. I, for one, would rather err on the side of caution.

By jhyattmd | Dec 27, 2006 9:54:53 AM | Request Removal

Whats that you say bubbahs and billiebobs? You prescribe without question or conscience to the Limbaugh school of advanced atmosperic sciences? Part of the advanced conservative studies is it? Well ... if the waterboy himself expounds such indisputable data for the benefit of mankind, how can it be anything but right? If theres a buck to be made today at the expense of future generations, heck yes ... why not have the big GOP contributors, big oil and energy have a poke in Americas public lands? It will be a good ole fun, profit making time! A hint ... you GOPers need to make these environmental issues a matter of Faith to pull in the Fundie big guns and all those millions of unquestioning votes ... Play down the St. Francis of Assisi thing and play up the Man shall have dominion over the creatures thing.

By EyeOpener | Dec 27, 2006 10:02:05 AM | Request Removal

THANK YOU WASH POST FOR THE INFO.

By Mannymac.com | Dec 27, 2006 10:05:45 AM | Request Removal

It has always been my intention to post with politeness - regardless of the topic or reader responses and I will continue to try- but this begs me so scream, shout and name call- I will do my best to be civil however- In my view, the use of the word whackjobs is civil in this case- The whackjobs who deny that global warming threatens the worlds existence must be the same who think it is really OK to kill Iraqs innocents at the expense of our very own young men and women soldiers- The polar bears are not the issue- they are but a symptom and preview of is what to come- There are reams of empirical data to support the premise that the warming of the earth IS man made- sure scientists disagree- but the majority by FAR agree the results could be catastrophic- folks like Jimarush would have us provide absolute truth- problem here is that by the time all the proofs are in, it well could be to late to rectify- do you really want us to gamble the future of mankind because you do not have all the proof you think we need? Since most of the global warming problems issues from the use of fossil fuels- a source that is limited, will run out someday, and holds us hostage at least in part to parts of the world hostile to American interests, I merely ask, why be so obstinate?

By vwilliams1st | Dec 27, 2006 10:09:09 AM | Request Removal

Surely you cannot believe that moving to a more green and ecologically friendly environment is intrinsically bad. It is a good thing. Gives us incentives to move where we should have been concentrating our efforts all along- concentrate on bio-alternatives, uses of solar energy and self-generating electric cars. Wanting to save our planet is NOT a bad thing- can we agree on that?

By vwilliams1st | Dec 27, 2006 10:11:08 AM | Request Removal