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~~

This reminds me of the so called "endangered" manatee BS that we
endure here if FL. Meanwhile there are more of then then ever, and
anyone who wants a slow speed zone, for whatever reason, claims that
they once saw a manatee endangered by a boat in that area.