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First it was the cuddly polar bears (Warning: Polar bears only look cuddly from a distance. They are not really. Should you by chance have a close encounter with a polar bear, do not attempt to cuddle with it) and the cute little penguins, and now USA Today reports that reindeer are endangered by climate change:
Thirteen of the Arctic’s 23 largest migrating herds are now in decline, according to the 2010 Arctic Report Card by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A Canadian study last year found that global reindeer populations have fallen 57% from their peak over the past two decades.
“Arctic herds in particular are challenged by climate change, just like polar bears are,” study author and University of Alberta ecologist Mark Boyce told Mother Nature Network’s Russell McLendon. “It’s in the Arctic that climate change is happening faster than anywhere else on the planet.”
Can Santa’s workshop and the elf population (herds?) be far behind?
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Richard Baker| 12.24.10 @ 12:44PM
Since the Climate Change/Global Warming fraud is just that, now we're into the "let's just make it up mode." Talk about your Political Science.
Dixie Pixie| 12.24.10 @ 4:39PM
I may be wrong but didn’t Finland cull their reindeer herd in 2005 due to overpopulation.
So now the reindeer are endangered according to NOAA because the total amount of reindeer has fallen from a overpopulated high during the Reagan / Bush era. A population that the Norwegians, Sweden and Finland deliberately culled due to overpopulation. A decrease NOAA now claims are due to global warming.
Talk about cooking the books. If increased industrial production increases the reindeer population and decreasing industrial production to fix global warming decreases the reindeer population then the problem is too many environmental activists.
Maybe the solution is to issue hunting permits to cull the herds of environmental activists to save the planet and reindeer herds. After all, if the number of environmental activists are allowed to rise without limit there will soon come a time when their ecological niche is overpopulated and damages all other related niches. Certainly the Conservative and Business environmental niches have been critically damaged.
So call your State Hunting Board today to classify the environmental activists as nuisance wildlife.
They need to be culled to maintain a healthy population as they are currently overpopulated. PETA claims a turkey is a deer is a feral swine is a PETA person. Why not take them at their word and treat them as their philosophy dictates. So call today as only you can correct the dangerous overpopulation of environmental activists.