EPA Lawsuit and Polar Bear Penises

EPA Lawsuit and Polar Bear Penises

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Subject: EPA Lawsuit and Polar Bear Penises

Date: Apr 3, 2008 3:39 PM

All one has to do to get serious activism going on the environment is
to tell psychiatrists
that pollution shrinks, um, exterior genitalia:
http :// www .actionlyme.org/HAIRBALLS TEALEAVES BONESTHROWING.htm

If we informed the American Psychiatric Association of this calamity,
the whole
of the 35,000 members would descend upon Washington and demand and end
to pollution
and carbon based fuels.

It's a scientific fact, though, so we may have a hard time reaching
their brains
with this understanding and associations between facts.

Nevermind autism.
Nevermind kids with brain damage from Lyme.
Nevermind vaccines damage to immune-compromised children.
Nevermind mercury and developing brains.
Mention penises and you'll evoke massive hysteria on the part of the
American
Psychiatric Association.

Kathleen M. Dickson



http :// www .actionlyme.org/HAIRBALLS TEALEAVES BONESTHROWING.htm
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Inaction on Polar Bear Criticized
Democrats Blame Interior for Delay in Addressing Climate Change

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 3, 2008; A04

Senate Democrats yesterday deplored the Bush administration's failure
to meet
a legal deadline for determining whether global warming is pushing
polar bears toward
extinction and lashed their scheduled star witness -- Interior
Secretary Dirk Kempthorne
-- for declining to appear in his own defense.

Kempthorne announced 15 months ago that his department would determine
within a
year whether the bear should be added to the endangered species list
because rapidly
disappearing sea ice threatens its ability to hunt and survive, but he
has yet to
issue a decision. A coalition of environmental groups has sued the
Interior Department
for missing the one-year deadline to act.

"The Bush administration is violating the law, and that is why we're
here
today," said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the
Environment and
Public Works Committee, opening the hearing. "These species do not
have an
indefinite time to be saved. . . . Time is running out for the polar
bear, and time
has run out for this decision."

Kempthorne wrote Boxer on Tuesday night to say he would "respectfully
decline"
the panel's invitation because he had yet to make a final
determination on the
polar bears' status and is the named plaintiff in the pending suit.

Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) defended Kempthorne, noting that the
Clinton administration
had missed deadlines in listing the Canadian lynx and other animals
under the Endangered
Species Act. "So this is not an unprecedented occurrence, nor is it
unique
to the Bush administration," Inhofe said. Kempthorne "is not shirking
his duty" by not testifying, he added.

Inhofe, seconded by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), said
environmentalists are trying
to use the act "to achieve global warming policy that special interest
groups
cannot otherwise achieve through the legislative process."

One of the most controversial aspects of the pending decision is that
it would be
largely based not on current populations but on estimates of the
threat posed by
predicted shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, on which the animals rely to
hunt their prey.

As of 2005, a survey of the 13 bear populations in Canada and
Greenland found that
five were declining, three were growing and five were stable. But the
ice-free period
in Hudson Bay now lasts 20 days longer than it did 20 years ago, and
some scientists
predict that summer sea ice in the Arctic may disappear altogether
within five to
seven years.

William P. Horn, an Interior official under President Reagan who now
represents
the United States Sportsmen's Alliance, said that listing polar bears
based
on sea ice projections would open "a Pandora's box" and radically
redefine the act.

But Douglas B. Inkley, a senior scientist at the National Wildlife
Federation, said
government scientists have calculated that at the current rate of ice
loss, two-thirds
of the bears will vanish by 2050, including all those in U.S.
territory.

"Each one of these species is like a fire alarm going off, warning us
that
something is amiss. We can pretend to not hear the fire alarm; we can
pretend the
fire isn't real," Inkley said. "Instead, the appropriate action is
to put out the fire by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions."

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