Polar Bear Added to the Endangered Species List ...

We love the white soft bears. Why can't we be p.c. about the fuzzy white bears and send them to the south pole? What kind problems would it cause? We move everything else to make our live's easier. Long Live the polar bears.. Jefro ask Why?

Hi we are doing a fundraiser and want to give the money to Peta. We need some help raising money if anyone would like to help with some money and a logo for our banner please email one of those email addresses! please we need our help to save the polar bears!!!!! Love addy and kennedy

Hi Kurt! Sorry to say this but you have the same mixup going as Frank. Natural substances can be withstood by nature but oil spills are extremely toxic. Frank is also confused because he does not understand that we exhale CO2 which is absorbed by plants but car exhaust is toxic. Anyway Kurt just so you know I'll be gone for about a week in grad school 12 hour days banding birds and learning radio telemetry yikes!! so I won't be around. Please don't abandon me as a friend I love our discussions!!! See you soon! Maya

Maya You are confusing CO2 harmless found in your Diet Coke and CO toxic coming out of car exhaust. I think that's all we need to know.

Maya Once again I must disagree. Whereas we have experienced a slight increase in global average temperatures since the late 70's there is evidence suggesting that global average temperatures have plateaued since 1998 and that a reverse trend decrease in global average temperatures is upon us. Let's think about common sense it would require astronomical quantities of CO2 in the atmosphere for it to ever become a legitimate pollutant. Beside the more CO2 the more vegetation thrives see the Carboniferous Period. Furthermore consider these facts Carbon dioxide is really a tiny constituent of our atmosphere comprising less than 4100 of 1 of all gases present 380 ppm. Approximately 186 billion tons of carbon dioxide are emitted into the atmosphere each year. Of this total over 96 is from natural sources 1 90 billion tons are emitted by the oceans 2 another 90 billion tons are emitted by sources such as volcanoes and decaying plants 3 only 6 billion tons are the result of human activity Most carbon dioxide is eventually locked up in ocean sediments as phytoplankton die and the carbon in their bodies falls to the ocean floor. Carbon dioxide from all coal burning worldwide comprises only 0.013 of the greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. The world's natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined. As you know CO2 is part of the Carbon cycle which is an essential part of LIFE on this planet. It's like third grade science here we need CO2 to survive! I'm affraid it is NOT a simple fact that our planet is being polluted and that our children are going to suffer and hate our guts for the world we have left them. It IS a fact however that our planet is cleaner than it's been in the past 30+ years. We have cars that run more cleanly than ever air quality in the U.S. is improving dramatically and air pollution is no longer a threat to public health in spite of what you may hear in the media look it up on the EPA website. We have clean coal technology power plants that emit next to zero pollutants and prodive us with cheap efficient electricity. Lake Erie which was essentialy written off as a hopeless disgusting pool of gunk in the late 70's has been cleaned up see Clean Water Act of 1972 and has seen its walleye population make a strong comeback. Finally I don't really care if you read my articles or not. But if you read only one you should read this peer reviewed scientific research paper by Robinson Robinson and Soon all Ph.D's professors and researchers called "Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide." It is available for free right here httpwww.oism.orgpprojectGWReviewOISM600.pdf. From it a conclusion about our legacy to our children "Human activities are producing part of the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Mankind is moving the carbon in coal oil and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere where it is available for conversion into living things. We are living in an in creasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of this CO2 increase. Our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life yes polar bears too than that with which we now are blessed."