Sentences with phrase «listing of the polar bear»

Others accused Interior of delaying its listing of the polar bear as an endangered species until after business deals had been done in Alaska.

However, it must be understood that the central purpose of those who filed the Massachusetts versus EPA case and those who proposed the listing of the polar bear is precisely to create that regulatory nightmare to pressure you and the Congress into adopting Kyoto - style cap - and - trade policy.

Felicity Barringer, who's been covering the recent listing of the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, has written a news article on the offshore sightings.

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

They also contracted with the State of Alaska to provide justification of the State's opposition to the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.

This paper attempted to cast doubt on the sensitivity of polar bears in Western Hudson Bay to climate change, a basis of the eventual US Fish and Wildlife listing of the polar bear as «threatened».

[On Wednesday, the Fish and Wildlife Service filed a memorandum in federal court defending the 2008 listing of polar bears as threatened, not endangered.]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska will sue to challenge the recent listing of polar bears as a threatened species, Gov. Sarah Palin announced Wednesday.

The recent listing of polar bears as «endangered» was based on junk science and GIGO computer models that claim manmade global warming will send the bears» record population numbers into oblivion.

These declining PBSG estimates also went viral, and websites such as the one run by psychologist John Cook, who is now part of the well - funded Center for Climate Change Communication, posted an article concluding, «Current analysis of subpopulations where data is sufficient clearly shows that those subpopulations are mainly in decline» and thus support the ESA listing of polar bears as threatened.

For example, the Center recently petitioned for listing of the polar bear (link to polar bear page) under the Endangered Species Act, in part because of the detrimental effects of global warming on habitat for this species.

Not exact matches

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which maintains the international «Red List» of threatened species, considers the polar bear «vulnerable» due to climate change - induced retreating sea ice.

The Interior Department lists the polar bear as a «threatened» species — one at risk of becoming endangered — due to dangerous declines in their sea ice habitat

An international «Red List» of threatened species says that the polar bear is vulnerable to extinction because of a projected decline in its habitat linked to climate change that is melting sea ice in the Arctic.

In May 2008, the Bush Administration, after multiple lawsuits, put the polar bear on the endangered species list and acknowledged that the survival of the species is jeopardized by climate change.

They concluded that, based on a median value across all scenarios, there's a high probability of a 30 percent decline in the global population of polar bears over the next three to four decades, which supports listing the species as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

The U.S. Department of the Interior Wednesday listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 based on evidence that the animal's sea ice habitat is shrinking and is likely to continue to do so over the next several decades.

Although the polar bear's listing does recognize the impact of changing global conditions, the department is quick to point out that it does not assign blame for these conditions on anyone in particular.

(The agency listed the polar bear and wolverine last year because of climate - change related concerns.)

Regehr, Laidre and their colleagues» results are the product of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List assessment for polar bears.

Wild card: McCain and Palin sat on opposite sides of the ice floe when it came to deciding whether the polar bear should be listed as an endangered species earlier this year.

The list of species potentially imperiled by climate change is long, from polar bears to certain types of pine trees.

In perhaps the most ironic listing of all, a Chinese auction site listed a polar bear skin rug that sold for US $ 25,825.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told a crowd recently that efforts to include the polar bear on the endangered species list are based on «these global warming studies that now we're seeing (is) a bunch of snake oil science.»

«The listing not only raised public awareness that climate change is already driving vulnerable species like the polar bear toward extinction, but also forced the Bush administration to adopt the consensus view of the world's scientists on global warming.»

Given that the polar bear listing was a response to a suit the feds were in the process of losing badly, I'd say the Alaskan governor is just going to waste the taxpayers money.

Honest question — will listing polar bears as endangered really have much effect on the preservation of the species?

It was, of course, a man under the fur: Brendan Cummings, a lawyer and public lands director for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups that used litigation to force the Department of the Interior to consider listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act as threatened (which it did).

[22] I am also announcing that this listing decision will be accompanied by administrative guidance and a rule that defines the scope of impact my decision will have, in order to protect the polar bear while preventing unintended harm to the society and economy of the United States.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

Three years after environmental groups sued to force the Interior Department to consider protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming Arctic.

Kassie Siegel, the lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, a group based in Arizona that took the lead in the lawsuit calling on the department to list the polar bear, added, «I don't see how even this administration can write this proposal without acknowledging that the primary threat to polar bears is global warming and without acknowledging the science of global warming.»

Kert Davies, the research director for Greenpeace U.S.A., one of three environmental groups that sued the Interior Department in 2005 to force it to add polar bears to the list of threatened species, said the administration was «clearly scrambling for credibility of any kind in this issue.»

The International Conservation Union, in its latest red list of endangered wildlife, gave polar bears threatened status in May, projecting a decline of 30 percent by midcentury from current populations, mainly due to projected losses of sea ice in a warming world.

While Mr. Kempthorne and Dale Hall, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Wednesday that they saw no separate risk to polar bears from oil and gas activity, the latest assessment of the species for the International Conservation Union, by a group of experts including Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, did include such activity in a list of threats, including toxic contaminants, shipping and recreational viewing.

Is there a mutiny in the works between the IUCN Red List and the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) over polar bear population estimates or has there simply been a breach of ethBear Specialist Group (PBSG) over polar bear population estimates or has there simply been a breach of ethbear population estimates or has there simply been a breach of ethics?

«The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) should have been disbanded in 1996, the year polar bears were down - graded from a status of «vulnerable to extinction'to «lower risk — conservation dependent» (now called «least concern») on the IUCN Red List,» Professor Crockford writes.

PBGS members voted to reject four subpopulation estimates used in the 2015 Red List polar bear status review — even though the inclusion of those numbers was required in order for the Red List status of «vulnerable» to be upheld.

On May 14, the U.S. Interior Department listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to the rapid melting of Arctic ice.

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

Amstrup is a very powerful member of the PBSG and he's held tightly to the predictions of polar bear declines to extinction he made that resulted in a «threatened» listing for polar bears under the ESA in 2008 (Amstrup et al. 2007, 2010).

The truth is that we clearly do not know enough about most of the polar bear populations to make the argument for listing.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on December 27 that it is proposing formally to list the polar bear as «threatened» with extinction, because rising Arctic temperature is causing the loss of sea ice, on which polar bears depend... Continue reading →

There is important research that attempts to tie global warming to carbon dioxide emissions and a long list of supporting research and observations from polar ice melting and polar bears to strength and number of exceptional storms.

It took lawsuits and petitioning efforts by the Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC, Greenpeace, and other organizations to overcome the resistance to this listing, which would have profound implications on how polar bear habitat is used — that is, whether its arctic territory would become territory of oil companies as well.

Fans of the polar bear, and people concerned about the environment, won a major victory in May 2008 when the big, white bears were listed as a «threatened species» under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Sadly, even with various protections like the Marine Mammal Protection Act or a listing as «threatened» in the Endangered Species Act, the polar bear still is suffering from various forms of human schizophrenia, ignorance, and greed.

«There's broad consensus that rapid climate change in the Arctic is hurting polar bears right now and the U.S. government needs to take aggressive action to pull this majestic species back from the brink of extinction,» said Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute and author of the petition that led to Endangered Species Act listing for the bear in 2008.

Interior has until Dec. 23 to respond to a November court ruling by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan that ordered the Department of the Interior to reexamine its 2008 decision to list the polar bear as «threatened» rather than «endangered.»

Large margins of error in polar bear population estimates means the conservation status threshold of a 30 % decline (real or predicted) used by the US Endangered Species Act and the IUCN Red List is probably not valid for this species.