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Thread ID: 106590	2010-01-14 22:22:00	If Ya Can't Cook Them, Make Them Sick!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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848820	2010-01-14 22:22:00	Since the book-cooking in Norway and the "scientific" results about global warming are now debunked, things have gotta be kept on the boil for and about dem poor ol' POLAR BEARS . Now they have POLLUTION to worry about since their ice floes are NOT melting and that's all fine for the tree hugger now that they have lost their battle and need something new to hype . Pollution imperils polar bears By Matt Walker ~ Editor, Earth News The long term survival of polar bears is being threatened by man-made pollution that is reaching the Arctic . This conclusion comes from a major review of research into how industrial chemicals such as mercury and organochlorines affect the bears . DON'T LET THEM USE THERMOMETERS! The review suggests that such chemicals have a range of subclinical effects . THE WORD "CLINICAL" REPRESENTS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! If you answer my question about, say, Lucas electrical devices, I can cite that as a CLINICAL OBSERVATION" - SEE? When added together, these can have a dramatic and potentially fatal impact on the bears' bones, organs and reproductive and immune systems . THERE'S TOO MANY BEARS ANYWAY - THERE AREN'T ENOUGH ICE FLOES FOR THEM ALL . WE SHOULD BE STERILIZING THEM! There's nothing sadder that an overcrowded iceberg with too many polar bears waiting their turn to get dry . The review, an analysis of more than a decade's research into the effect of pollution on bears, is published in the journal WHAT'S "THE JOURNAL" AND WHERE CAN I SEE IT? "After being very skeptical, I now feel that the impact on bears may be true" Dr Christian Sonne Aarhus University A range of man-made pollutants reach them, carried there in the air and water . These include toxic metals such as mercury, organohalogen contaminants (OHCs) including organochlorines, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and perflourinated compounds (PFCs), which are used industrially in insulating fluids, as coolants, in foams and electronics and as pest control agents . Such chemicals are often fat-soluble and accumulate in the fat of many animals, which are then eaten by top of the pyramid animals such as polar bears . These top predators are then exposed to increasingly concentrated levels of toxins . But the impact of these toxins on polar bears has been difficult to measure, with the in 1998 and 2004 . WHY? WON'T THEY STAND STILL FOR BLOOD TESTS? That is party because it is logistically difficult to take many and repeated samples of blood or tissue from live polar bears . SO - SHOOT THEM AND THEN TEST THEM! Also, only free-ranging healthy animals that are not clinically sick tend to be sampled, making the overall population appear to be healthier than it already is . SEND IN SOME FREE-RANGING SCIENTISTS THEN . # Shrinking sexual ability: studies have found correlations between levels of OHCs and smaller and deformed sexual organs in male and female bears GIVE THEM VIAGRA # Overactive organs: organochlorines increase the activity of liver enzymes, while mercury boosts stress hormones in the blood # Mercury damages the bears' nervous systems # PCB exposure may lead to decreases in bone mass density So veterinary scientist and polar bear expert Dr Christian Sonne, of thet Aarhus University in Denmark, conducted the first review of all pertinent research on the health effects of such contaminants on polar bears . Previously, Dr Sonne was part of a team of researchers which found that "stress" linked to pollutants and shrinking sea ice appeared to be . LET THEM DRIVE ON SOCAL FREEWAYS IF THEY WANT TO SEE STRESS! THEN LET THE SCIENTIST TRY DRIVING IT . His new analysis includes the results of more than 200 organ and skull tissue samples taken from 80 bears in East Greenland between 1999 and 2009, as well as repeated measurements and observations of bears living in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway . HOW'D HE GET THESE SAMPLES? I BET HE IS KILLING THEM AND THAT'S WHY THE NUMBERS OF BEARS ARE REALLY DECLINING . "If it isn't one thing, it's something else" Roseanne Roseannadanna	SurferJoe46 (51)
848821	2010-01-14 22:36:00	www.guardian.co.uk	Strommer (42)
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