Why does Sara Palin want the polar bear off the endangered species list?

Question

I heard this the other day and it blew my mind. Could someone please tell me why she supports this? What are her reasons?

Answer 1

You could probably start with the fact that polar bears are no longer endangered.  And then you could accept the fact that their numbers continue to increase. Is that enough reason?  

Answer 2

Honestly?  I have no doubt that her opposition to listing the polar bear as a threatened species is that she's worried the listing will impact oil drilling in Alaska due to habitat protection.

Palin gets her information from 'scientists' funded by the oil industries.  Just a bit of a conflict of interest.

"Palin's administration relied in part on research from scientists funded by the oil industry to fight against the polar bear's listing, arguing that the impact of global warming on the bear 20 years from now can't be predicted. But e-mails obtained by a University of Alaska professor show that the state's marine mammal experts supported the federal government's conclusions on the bear."

Answer 3

  Global Cooling? Unprecedented Ice Storms In Kenya

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Evidence that the planet is tip-toeing towards the onset of a new mini ice age continues to present itself following unprecedented ice storms in Kenya as well as Sydney experiencing its coldest August for 60 years. But don’t worry because according to the World Wildlife Fund, global cooling can just as easily be blamed on CO2 emissions as can global warming.



China



   Earlier this year, China experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its coldest April in decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost daily basis.



The cold snap arrives on the back of the Sun reaching a milestone not observed in nearly 100 years - the entire month of August passed without a single sunspot being noted.

Lack of solar activity in 2008 has coincided with evidence of a cooling trend across the world.

Earlier this year, China experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its coldest April in decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost daily basis. The British summer also left many yearning for global warming, with temperatures in June and July rarely struggling to get over 16 degrees and on one occasion even dropping as low as 9 degrees in the middle of the afternoon.

“Summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century’s opening decade,” reports the Chicago Tribune. “There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That’s by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.”

Answer 4

they are endangered ok get it and get out of the rock or learn from your planet they are

http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_ha...

WHY DONT THE NONBELIEVERS READ

the article states that their poplulation will continue to decrease over the next 45 years because their habitat which is the ice is declining faster than then we can blink. This loss of habitat it says will cause the mortality  rate of their young and stop breeding and yada yada so hey THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL WHY DONT YOU STOP SAYING THAT THEY ARE NOT AND GROW UP BECAUSE THIS IS  HAPPENING AND YOU

CANNOT -D-E-N-Y IT ANYMORE!

Answer 5

the polar bear is not endangered.  Here is what is going on.  There is a small group of people that want to stop building a new power plant.  All the permits have been approved.  There is not danger to the local lizard around this plant in the desert of the SW USA.  No people will be harmed, there will be some modification performed on other power plants in the area to lower their emissions.  This group will not take no for answer.  

They have now filed a lawsuit in the courts claiming that this power plant will cause ALL the POLAR BEARS to die and that the EPA must act and shutdown this new plant.  Taking the next step could mean that all coal fired plants must be shutdown within 5 years.  Talk about blackout time!!

So, the rumor people hear is that it is a foregone conclusion that the Polar Bear is an endanger species, when in fact it is not.

Answer 6

If you follow the reasoning that was used to place polar bears on the endangered species list (their habitat may be threatened in the future), wouldn't that require you to place every species, to include humans, on the endangered species list?

Remember, 95% of every species to exist on the earth is extinct.

Answer 7

Wow, I didn't believe your question when I read it, but I did a little research and I found her letter she wrote...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/opinio...

Answer 8

Because by definition the Polar Bear isn't endangered, yes it really is that simple

Answer 9

oh please.....20 years ago the PB needed to be on the endangered list there were only 10,000 of them...today there are over 40,000...it did its job..liberals are always looking for a giant conspericy in everything a conservitive does