USA to continue to protect polar bear as Endangered Species!!

[sheme]

Now this smells fishy to me.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112795277/polar-bears-retain-endangered-species-act-protection-030313/

[ThePythonicCow]

Now this smells fishy to me.
Why does it smell fishy to you ?

From the opening words of the article you linked:



The US government and the polar bear won an important court ruling on Friday, as an appeals court deemed that the Bush administration had acted reasonably when they decided to list the Arctic mammal as a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act due to the effects of climate change.

According to Brent Kendall of the Wall Street Journal, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a 36 page ruling which upheld the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 2008 decision.

If you could, I recommend putting a little more explicit information about what you post, especially in the opening post of new threads. Let other readers decide whether it's worth pursuing, without forcing them to click through to another link.

[sheme]

CO2
emissions per capita from fossil fuel use and cement production in 2011. The USA is the second highest producer in the world second only to Australia.
Why don't they spend their resources helping in a more sustainable way by reducing their emissions?

Estimated 25,000 polar bears that just happen to live in Russia Canada Alaska Norway and else where, Oil Fields on or near the location of the Bears is probably the reason for their protection, nothing more.

My apologies for "forcing you to push the button".

[Lifebringer]

Why, don't you have faith that OUR generations will still have the species of polar bear which is native to our continent?

Of course WE love our polar bear families. They look so cute in the coke commercials and they don't bother people, people bother them because of their fur color and meat/body fur for warmth.

[ghostrider]

the endangered species is humans...