Obama backs Bush on polar bear
Despite pressure from many environmentalists, the Obama administration upheld a Bush administration rule limiting the regulatory impact of last year's decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species.
The rule would essentially prevent the Endangered Species Act from becoming a venue for arguments about greenhouse gas emissions. And the logic is simple enough: Bear biologists hopefully have better things to do than analyze greenhouse gases from, say, a cement plant in Georgia, even if emissions from that plant contribute to global warming and the retreat of sea ice, which ultimately translates into hungry bears.
"We already are doing everything we can to protect the polar bear," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters Friday. "The Endangered Species Act, however, is not in my view the proper mechanism for controlling our nation’s carbon emissions."
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Climate Change Conference - Dec 07
Hi all great forum. I hope you dont mind but I wanted to raise the issue of climate change. There will be a conference for Climate Change Conference - Dec 07 in Copenhagen.
We cant ignore it we are all detroying our planet with CO2, each year its getting hotter and winters are getting shorter. The ice is melting and the sea and coral are dying, chocked with C02. We must take action now and not just accept words from our politicians. We must ALL take action. Please take part and get invloved before its too late for us and our children.
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Campaign against Climate Change
Posted by: Max | May 15, 2009 09:44 AM