"The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears," according to Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. "They are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the ice melts and global warming transforms the Arctic, polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they don't have access to their usual food sources."
Scientists have noticed increasing reports of starving Arctic polar bears attacking and feeding on one another in recent years. In one documented 2004 incident in northern Alaska, a male bear broke into a female's den and killed her. My headline is almost as dumb as this statement. Polar bears like lions are known to attack the cubs of a female. Often the female is killed trying to protect her young.
In May, the U.S. Department of Interior listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act. In a news release, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne stated, "loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat. This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species."
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Polar bears survived the warming trend around 1000 when it was 3-4 deg C warmer than now, they survived the warming trend that happened 5000 years ago, they will survive long after our generation is ashes.
More scare tactics from the now desperate greens to be noticed. Sorry chums, people look after their shrinking money in their wallet and look out for themselves now instead of listening to you.
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HISTORY CHANNEL "MONSTERQUEST"/OTHER > Polar bears are not only swimming, they'e making landfall in NORTHERN CANADA and having sex wid the local CINDY BEARS [Yogi Toon], ala so-called "PRIZZLY/PROWN BEARS" [Polar-Grizzly/Brown Bear Hybrid]???
ALso reportedly spotted in GREENLAND-ICELAND [Sorry, were NOT drinking BUDWEISER BEER].
The thing is, Polar Bears will swim long distances in search of food. Like from the limits of the icepack down to Iceland. (I think this happened earlier this year, where the authorities pointed out that it was the first time in twenty years or so that it had happened... and then shot the bear. We're supposed to be doing all sorts of stuff to ourselves and deindustrializing to save the Polar Bear. Hey guys, what about y'all just stop shooting at them?)
[R]acism against our minority student athletes ... underlies much of the opposition to our student athlete high performance center, declared UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau in a letter sent to two major donors to the school.
That allegation in a June 27 letter stunned the recipients, Berkeley residents and long-time university donors and supporters Thomas and Janice Boyce.
The appearance of the letter, given to this newspaper by a third party, comes as the campus is launching the public phase of a $3 billion endowment fund-raiser, with Birgeneau in the lead.
The chancellors letter followed earlier letters from the couple questioning the universitys handling of the tree-sit protest at the now-leveled grove at Memorial Stadium, as well as the expense of rehiring campus police chief Victoria Harrison.
Stephan Volker, one of the attorneys who challenged the universitys plans to level the grove to build the four-level high-tech gym and office complex, called Birgeneaus claim beyond bizarre.
It seems the university will leave no stone unturned to smear anyone who disagrees with their policies, said the attorney, who briefly attended the school himself and whose spouse and a son received Cal degrees...
Despite fuel suppliers' warning Humpf. What the hell do they know?
to New York City Transit officials that the cleaner-burning low-sulfur fuel it used in its bus fleet might become difficult to get, the transit agency never switched to a cheaper and more readily available fuel. And we're surprised because....?
As a result, the agency found itself caught off guard last month when there were no bidders for a new fuel contract, so it rushed through a stopgap agreement with its previous supplier at a much higher price. Bet the "previous supplier" saw that one coming a mile off.
Wonder how they knew. Mebbe someone a good friend in the Transit Authority ...
The custom-made That figures. It's for NooYawk, dontchaknow.
ultra-low sulfur kerosene costs about 20 cents more per gallon than common ultra-low sulfur diesel that suppliers recommended to the agency. It also requires special handling that adds about 45 cents per gallon Good grief. Oh, well, it's not like it's the procurement officer's money or anything....
to delivery charges in the new contract. The extra costs add up to an additional expense of more than $30 million for the 50 million gallons of fuel to be delivered in the next year. Chump change. Get Bloomberg - or AlBore - to cover it out of petty cash.
Al's worried about the carbon sequestration for that burned kerosene ...
The transit agency told itself proudly that it was a pioneer in 2000 when it switched its bus fleet to a ultra-low sulfur kerosene to fight pollution. At the time, transit officials thought they knew the federal government was preparing to require all diesel engines switch to ultra-low sulfur fuel. The wider use would lower the fuel's cost, they thought. But instead, in 2006, the federal government chose a slightly different fuel. See, it's all the Feds' fault! Yeah, that's the ticket!
The kerosene that the transit agency uses is produced only at a Pennsylvania refinery owned by Sunoco, and the agency is the only large purchaser. And Sunoco thanks you very much. As they bitterly cling to their Pennsylvania guns.
Stanley Grill, the agency's head of procurement, said the agency was hesitant to switch to more commonly available diesel fuel because officials are pansy-assed lily-livered wussies there were worried about how it might affect their engines and pollution levels. The agency is currently testing the diesel fuel. Bend over, New Yorkers. Again.
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A disgruntled dentist in the Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm is under investigation for assault and theft after forcibly retrieving unpaid dental work from the mouth of his patient.
According to police, the dentist knocked on the door of the 35-year-old woman on Monday evening and without saying a word overpowered her and removed two bridges that he had previously fitted to replace teeth he had pulled. Although the womans insurance covered part of the costs, she had apparently failed to pay the remaining 400 for the dental work.
He then left silently, but the woman went to the police to press charges.
The dentist is being investigated for assault for the way he forced open her mouth, and theft for taking the bridges, police spokesman Christian Owsinski told The Local on Wednesday. The woman was in pain when she showed up at the station.
Owsinski said the dentist had not been taken into custody, but if convicted he could face inquiries from both the health insurance company and the dental association that could jeopardize his practice.
The Munich Oktoberfest, the annual showcase of Bavarian culture, got off to a rousing start with almost a million visitors downing 450,000 liters of beer over the opening weekend. But folk societies are warning that the regions proud heritage is under attack from cheap Lederhosen made in China, India and Eastern Europe.
Mein Gott!!
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what is lederhosen?
It's what's worn by adult males who haven't been hammered by Stacy and Clinton yet. And being drunk isn't an excuse except for being bare naked in Soldiers Field to watch the Bears play on a December Sunday.
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An article posted here not long ago by that ponce of a British writer on his way to hang out in the Enclosure at the Munich Oktoberfest said that only tourists wear the cheap foreign-made Lederhosen. Locals and those in the know buy local brands from certain exclusive shops. Rantburg's own European Conservative weighed in on the subject.
Just when we thought that Dirty Jerse had hit rock bottom, its rivers and forests have become overrun with a slimy, invasive species of eel that can live for months during droughts and change sex if necessary in order to keep reproducing. The Asian swamp eels were found recently in Silver Lake.
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BEIJING - A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.
The country's official news agency Xinhua posted the article on its Web site Thursday, and remained there for much of the day before it was taken down. A staffer from the Xinhuanet.com Web site who answered the phone Thursday said the posting of the article was a "technical error" by a technician.
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This is probably how they'll get their gymnasts to age.
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The question is, did they already launch and they are waiting until they land safely before "pretending" to launch. Sort of a slightly more open way than the Soviets used to do it.
Or will they bullshit the launch no matter what happens and say all went well.
The intensity of the sun's million-mile-per-hour solar wind has dropped to its lowest levels since accurate records began half a century ago, scientists say. Measurements of the cosmic blasts of radiation, ejected from the sun's upper atmosphere, were made with the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The solar wind "inflates a protective bubble, or heliosphere, around the solar system," which protects the inner planets against the radiation from other stars, said Dave McComas, Ulysses' solar wind principal investigator and senior executive director at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "With the solar wind at an all-time low, there is an excellent chance the heliosphere will diminish in size and strength," said Ed Smith, NASA's Ulysses project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"If that occurs, more galactic cosmic rays will make it into the inner part of our solar system," added Smith. Increase in cosmic rays means an increase in hygroscopic nuclei which stimulates additional cloud cover reflecting the sun's radiation and causing global cooling.
Scientists say the weakening of solar wind appears to be due to changes in the sun's magnetic field, but the causes of these changes are unknown. The weakened solar activity can be beneficial because it slows satellites around the Earth, allowing them to remain in orbit longer.
The sun normally experiences 11-year-cycles between periods of great activity and lesser activity. But, Smith said, the Ulysses mission's recent results, published in Geophysical Research Letters, show that "we are in a period of minimal activity that has stretched on longer than anyone anticipated."
The Ulysses mission was the first project to survey the space environment over the sun's poles. The data the spacecraft has collected has profoundly changed the way scientists view our nearest star and its effects on the Earth.
The spacecraft has traveled more than 539 million kilometers in more than 18 years, almost four times its expected lifetime.
Looks like I'll have to trade up the CRV to a Hummer if I'm going to complete my eeeeeevil plan!
**cackle**
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Brace yourselves: As soon as Gore and his minions realize it's mostly the sun's fault, they'll be begging us to reduce our "carbon footprints" because "it's the only chance we have to lessen the impact of the catastrophe on Mother Earth." All their junk science will go unmentioned in the MSM.
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I just can't wait for the day when it becomes clear that the Goracle and his followers are the only ones filled with hot air and are finally laughed out of town.
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Notice how important the financial crisis has put all this pseudo scary stuff where it belongs - buried deep in the cellar. We live in the here and now not the past or future. Some do but most of us go day to day. But the greenies are always looking for how to inculcate themselves - Friedman of the NYT's wants all the homes built on the money received from the illiquid assets to be built to LEED standards. You can keep them on the back pages but not away from your tax dollars.
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ION TOPIX > THE STAGE IS SET FOR HIS APPEARANCE [DAMIEN = Rise of THE ANTICHRIST].
OR, in the altern, the ISLAMIST HIDDEN-IMAM/MAHDI???
*1980's BLOOM COUNTY COMICS > CRAZY WEIRDO KIDS AND THEIR WEIRDO POLITICS... This is what happens when they freak out after drinking STALE HEINEKEN BEER.
OF COURSE YOU KNOW THIS IS ALL REAGAN'S = THEIR MOTHER'S FAULT!?
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WHEN DADDY SAYS "DRILL TEAM" + "HOMEWORK" + "FIND A GOOD JOB", THEIR MOM + DAUGHTERS HEAR "SHOPPING", "CHEERLEADING", + "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" - There goes PAULA ABDUL again kicking her Daddy's favorite coconuts!
D *** NG IT, PAULA GIRL, WHAT IS IT WID YOU AND COCONUTS - WHAT DID COCONUTS AND TROPICAL PLANTS EVER DO TO YOU!
Authorities in Casablanca have shut down shisha cafes throughout the city after receiving several complaints during the holy month of Ramadan that the cafes promote vice and spread disease.
Moroccan preacher sheikh Abdul-Bari al-Zamzami, a member of the Moroccan Scholars Association, told AlArabiya.net that the cafes were dens of vice and corruption. "Shisha cafes are a disgrace to the city and to all Morocco. They are a way to seduce minors and spread corruption," he said.
Zamzami added that that nepotism has played a role in keeping the cafes open in spite of their negative influences and that he hoped the closure would extend beyond Ramadan.
In addition to the personal health risks of smoking sihsha, which include lung cancer, shisha cafes have been linked to the increased prevalence of tuberculosis in several Arab countries. According to the World Health Organization regional office in Cairo, about 17 percent of TB cases in the eastern Mediterranean are attributable to smoking the water pipes.
University professor and member of Casablanca city council Dr. Moustafa al-Haya told AlArabiya.net that he had been waiting for this decision for a long time, noting the close link between the rise in the number of cafes and the prevalence of tuberculosis in Casablanca. Recent statistics issued by the Ministry of Health indicate that Casablanca has the highest number of TB cases out of any Moroccan cities, with 25,562 cases reported in 2007 alone. The rate of infection was estimated at 82 cases for every 100,000.
Haya added that in addition to health problems cafes encourage many ethical violations since men and women "mingle in a shameful way."
Casablanca mayor Mohamed Sajed declined to comment on the decision to close the cafes.
The controversy over shisha cafes started in the City Council where many members considered them hotbeds of indecency and accused many of its regulars of replacing tobacco with pot or other narcotics.
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Oh, I was thinking of the perfidy of the shiskabob den.
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"SetFreeSoldiers" are out of Anaheim. They're not angels and I've heard they've actually done quite a bit of good, but they're not 'passive missionaries'. These guys interact with a pretty tough crowd.
As their website (setfreesoldiers.com) says "Some say we are too Good for the Bad guys, and too Bad for the Good guys."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The intensity of the sun's million-mile-per-hour solar wind has dropped to its lowest levels since accurate records began half a century ago, scientists say. Measurements of the cosmic blasts of radiation, ejected from the sun's upper atmosphere, were made with the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). 
Authorities in Casablanca have shut down shisha cafes throughout the city after receiving several complaints during the holy month of Ramadan that the cafes promote vice and spread disease.
