flacaltenn
Diamond Member
I never denied hunting isn't a problem, I'm simply saying polar bears won't exist at all if they continue to lose their habitat due to climate change. I fully supportShow me the numbers being killed by the natives and compare the numbers to the loss of habitat, harder access to food, etc, etc.. I see a pattern, everything has some obscure cause as long as it goes against the AGW message..Did this Polar Bear dance just last week. FACT IS --- Hunting by natives is more of problem to Polar Bears than Global Warming will ever be. The natives SELL their hunting permits for big bucks. And if there was TRULY a population crisis -- the hunt would curtailed or stopped.
The NATIVES know more about the polar bear populations than the scientists sitting on their asses. We should ask them. Want to help the Polar Bears? Stop the LEGAL hunting of them..
You're joking, right?
Joking about marking up a permit to shoot and kill a polar bear to a white hunter with $50,000 or so?
No I'm not David. It's big biz to the natives up there. Unlike YOU who have already be channeled to react to GW and NOT THINK or research any of this --- must sound DAMN strange that regular hunting permits are going out year after year to placate the natives. Eh???
Actually David -- that entire discussion about hunting pressure on polar bears is on the SAME website you referenced in the thread (among many other places) Estimate is 600 to 800 native permits issued worldwide, probably another 200 or so from poachers in Russia. That's A LOT OF PRESSURE..
And as usual -- when policy makers want to change something that won't make the natives happy --- they MAKE UP EXCUSES. So what's a more convienient excuse than GWarming eh? Pretty slick eh. Don't have the guts to cut hunting permits to the Indians. But if GLOBAL WARMING is killing the polar bears --- well then -- the natives will just have to understand..
Cutting hunting permits and combating global warming, glad to know you accept the reality of climate change.
The 0.5degC change in global temperature during your lifetime is not killing polar bears TODAY.. Maybe at some future date -- it could be a different story. The world's been warming for 300 years since the end of the LittleIceAge...
Guns and population increases in the sub-Arctic is..