On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:19:06 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Just how endangered is the polar bear? It depends on whom you ask.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1262...tml?mg=com-wsj

Scientists: Polar bear populations are plummeting! Tax Carbon! Fly me
to Rio! er. Tax Carbon!

Inuit: Say, we're seeing an awful lot of polar bears these days. More
than normal really.

Scientist: Anecdote! The only way to count bears is to tag a few and
then extrapolate!

Inuit: We have many words for "snow" in our language, but only one
word for "extrapolate". That word is "guess".

Scientists: Denier! Besides, even if there are 10 times as many Polar
bears now as in 1950, they are still endangered because if they can't
eat seals, they don't eat anything. You're just seeing the starving
Polar bears who are incapable of hunting anything other than seals.

Inuit: Then why do I keep running into so many fat polar bears? In all
your, um, sciencing, did you miss some land-based seal population?

Scientists: Shut up, that's why. Tax Carbon!

~~snerk~~

Go ahead and snerk your ass off. If this is an actual account, how
does the Inuit know that the bear population is growing? It's more
likely the bears are being driven towards the areas they inhabit.

Smart fellas like you know best though, eh?