Yellowstone! I'd love to go there someday.

I totally agree with you -bears look cute, but are actually quite crabby and irritable. Not to mention POWERFUL! The grizzly (and the coastal brown bears) IMO are way more powerful than the polar bears. Anyway, what I mean is that bears can be quite dangerous, lethal in fact when it comes to humans.

Agree with you on the "cute" factor too. Hopefully it works.

Exactly. Developing a polar bear awareness momentum is easier when drowning photos are shown.



Climate crisis and human caused thermostat elevation are causes that enviromental justice advocates care about to get Americans to stop driving, building and other agendas.

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So you're going to take up smoking and get a job installing asbestos?

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What if I take up smoking volcanos? There should be enough to choke on at Montserrat.

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What is the topic of the thread? We seemed to be covering several aspects of climate change and have now gone way off topic discussing members (btw, I've deleted the posts). If the topic has run it's course, we can close the thread.

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It's not wasting bandwidth. It tells the story. My comments are more direct. What if Volcanic activity under the sea could warm the ice to melt it?When the bears don't have ice, don't they adapt as Evolution stresses? Why should the environment adapt to the bear and not the bear to the enivronment?

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I've asked Crystal to go ahead and close this thread. I'd also like to request that everyone go back to the beginning of this thread and see where this fell apart. Post 22 or 23...On my browser window, that equates to one page of quality discussion and six pages of pictures of volcanos and polar bears and the same comments over and over and over and over.

No discussion after page 2.

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...the government...is caving in...with their specious arguments couched in the...language of civil rights law, and that the churches ... likewise crumbling to...rhetoric which is nothing but heretical sophistry -- ~F Phelps
Platitudes like the one you offer are no different - and no less incorrect - than the jackass part-time Christian who says, "I'm going to heaven because I'm nice to people." It so misses the point.~Impugn

Just checking through - out of the 5 threads on the environment forum that have been open in the last day, three have final posts by the same person - one most inclined to post pictures that are irrelevant to the issues at hand. I also note that the point at which you stated this thread began to fall apart was when this same person began to post his irrlevant pictures and people responded to this.

I am very interested in environmental issues. I have started a lot of threads on these issues and have made a habit of providing current links which report on issues related to climate change.

I also live in a region that is affected by climate change, have contact with people researching the effects of this and have contact with many others who can see their lives and their futures being severely affected (this week I was talking to a guy from Kiribati - highest point 3 metres above sea level - a coral atoll where beaches are already being washed away. believe me - such people take climate change very very seriously).

I wondered if I were beginning to have caught the kind of paranoia that is evident among many of the posters on this forum when I began to think that certain people don't want me to express my point of view, or provide links that the American public don't usually access. (Its not that these links aren't easy enough to find - if you know where to look - just that people don't seek out information if its too hard.)

However I am beginning to believe that a certain poster on USPO has an agenda to silence people like me, which is why he is trolling on this subforum, and several others.

His posts are usually guaranteed to drive a thread off topic, usually consist of inane repetitive comments that have very little bearing to the issue being discussed, his 'responses' to other posters could be written by a robot and he takes up an excessive amount of bandwidth posting irrelevant pictures and articles that are outdated/have no bearing on anything.

Allowing someone like this to dominate the forum (he is also the last poster on 25% of war and peace threads in the last 12 hours) detracts from the quality of this forum.

this should be considered.