Heck, Palin isn’t even asking the bears to run a marathon and bicycle 112 miles.
Sarah Palin: Tough on polar bears
Boston.com StaffAugust 29, 2008 04:22 PM
In May, Palin said she would sue the federal government after it declared polar bears an endangered species. Here’s what the Anchorage Daily News reported:
She and other Alaska elected officials fear a listing will cripple oil and gas development in prime polar bear habitat off the state’s northern and northwestern coasts…
Climate models that predict continued loss of sea ice, the main habitat of polar bears, during summers are unreliable, Palin said.
The announcement drew a strong response…
“She’s either grossly misinformed or intentionally misleading, and both are unbecoming,” said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity. …
“Even the Bush administration can’t deny the reality of global warming,” she said. “The governor is aligning herself and the state of Alaska with the most discredited, fringe, extreme viewpoints by denying this.”***
Nine polar bears at risk of drowning in global warming meltdown
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 30/08/2008
Nine polar bears are at risk of drowning after the ice floe where they lived melted because of global warming, scientists have said.
Nine polar bears at risk of drowning in global warming meltdownThe bears were spotted in open ocean off the northwest coast of Alaska, miles from their normal hunting area by US government oil survey scientists flying over the Chukchi sea.
Although land was initially only 60 miles away from the bears’ former home, they were driven north by their homing instinct towards the edge of the Arctic ice shelf.
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