from the dangers of oil drilling. Here are the groups you should be concerned with…
Polar bears are threatened — likely to become endangered — because their sea ice habitat has melted dramatically and computer models predict further losses, Kempthorne said. Summer sea ice last year shrunk to about 1.65 million square miles, nearly 40 percent less than the long-term average between 1979 and 2000.
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Whit Sheard, of Pacific Environment in Alaska, said Bush administration officials have been so keen to grant offshore leases, they have not given proper consideration to the potential harm to polar bears.
Computer models, gotta love it. It would be so powerful if our US dollars went to US oil companies instead of going to foriegn governments. As I have noted before, I am NOT against alternative energy sources, but these sources need time to mature.
