forestrose
Calgary, AB
age: 55
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Are you noticing effects of weather change on your landscape and animals?
I have been following some documentaries about the polar bears suffering
shortage of food, and dying because the ice flows are too far apart.
What is your perspective from the North country?
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midnitesun2
Kenai, AK
age: 54
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You know what you can follow threw reading, hearing but until you are there you never know... I am a animal lover all of them, but I hunt for what is needed not kill, I unitize all I take.. It is sad that things change but are lives change ever day and animails are no different. I have had the wonderful experiences in life to have many wild animals in my life. The threat and the bond.....It is what it is. But I will say F^%%$$%^ what is said about more money for are state (drilling in the refuse, lower gas rates, money for WIC what ever ) are you really going to get it in your life? I do know so many need help and support, I am one at times, and do b*tch about gas prices and so on,but crap.. I believe the moneys and the natural habitat comes from hard work and letting the wild be wild with respect for there state, we are are the ones to be grateful to share their home....
I walked out this morning and was putting my dog on his lead for a few before work at 2 am and a brown bear was right there---------so my respect not fear gave him what was his not mine, his space for where I now live......and he is trapped with us.
It is spring!!!!!!!!!!!
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midnitesun2
Kenai, AK
age: 54
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Well back to the affects... Sorry when I read Polar Bear it just made me think of animals who live here and how we have taken over their home.. Back on track.. LOL It is getting warmer, but then again has been so many changes over the years. There have been warm ones like the past few, who really knows? Can we change the weather and affects at this point, day to day it has already happened if it has. The future? maybe. All I know is I love my home.............
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flinx101
Juneau, AK
age: 42
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Ah, the global warming myth rears its ugly head once more. Global warming is a myth propogated by scare mongering researchers in order to garner grants for their research projects. The truth is humans have not been recording weather conditions accurately for a long enough period in geological time to have a proper baseline upon which to judge if this really is unnatural weather.
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tedric
Anchor Point, AK
age: 67
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Today the estimated Polar Bear population is around 25,000. In the late 1950s it was only about 5,000.
Although still below historical levels, today's population is due to increased regulation in hunting, concerning who is allowed to hunt them, and by what means. Arctic Natives are allowed to hunt for food and fur, and are limited in their annual harvests.
Recent changes in our weather patterns have caused a slight decline, due to decreased sea ice in some areas. Global Warming enthusiasts claim that bears are starving because they have to travel (swim) greater distances between ice floes to find seals. Their words are true, but their methods of presenting them are wrong.
The bears' decline (slight as it is) is due more to a decline in the seal population. Seals are not only hunted for meat and hides, but they are often simply shot by commercial fishermen. Seals eat fish. Seals tangle and rip nets. The presence of large numbers of seals scatter a valuable commodity, causing fishermen to spend more time and fuel to fill their holds.
The Polar Bear population has grown faster than its usually easily available food source. Pretty simple.
Global Warming has nothing to do with it, but nobody could have won a Nobel Peace prize for saying that.
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