Miller debated polar bears with Palin

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/arctic_minimum.html

"In September 2007, the Northwest Passage was ice-free for the first time since satellite records began. The passage is a direct route from Europe to Asia for ships traveling through the Arctic. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the ice-free Northwest Passage on Sept. 15, 2007."

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/greenland_recordhigh.html

"A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at 150 percent more than average. In fact, the total area of snow that has melted this year over Greenland could match the surface size of the U.S. more than twice."

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/antarctic_snowmelt.html

"On the world's coldest continent of Antarctica, the landscape is so vast and varied that only satellites can fully capture the extent of changes in the snow melting across its valleys, mountains, glaciers and ice shelves. In a new NASA study, researchers using 20 years of data from space-based sensors have confirmed that Antarctic snow is melting farther inland from the coast over time, melting at higher altitudes than ever and increasingly melting on Antarctica's largest ice shelf."

Arctic becomes an island as ice melts

Four weeks ago tourists had to be evacuated from a park on Baffin Island because of flooding caused by melting glaciers, and polar bears have been spotted off Alaska trying to swim hundreds of miles to the retreating ice cap.

Paul, if you're actually paying somebody to write that nonsense for you, they should be fired right now.

Just as we send people to Raleigh to make decisions that affect the whole state, we send people to Washington to make decisions that affect not only our country, but the rest of the world, as well.

The polar bear is our canary in the coal mine, if a metaphor will help you understand. Among other things, placing them on the Endangered Species list provides more monitoring of their behavior, which is crucial right now. And by the way: they're swimming off the coast of Alaska right now not because they enjoy it or need the exercise, but because their world is melting.

Now, you can walk right past that cage and ignore the canary in distress, but turning around and yelling at the other miners to do the same makes you not only foolish, it makes you dangerous, as well.

Make your mind up. On one thread you're criticizing Brad Miller for being informed about Alaska while on another you're criticizing Mel Watt for not being informed about Alaska.

Whatever else we may learn about the untested, inexperienced Palin--for example, her ethical challenges now under bipartisan investigation in her home state--we already know that she would be an environmental disaster. She's one of the waning number of science-denying climate change "sceptics" who will grasp at any oil-industry funded fig leaf to cover up real research. She falsely claimed that her own state's wildlife officials found no evidence to support the bears' endangered listing, despite statements from those same scientists contradicting her claim. Why? Could it be because she was afraid that the endangered listing would interfere with construction of a pipeline for which she'd wheedled a half-billion dollar subsidy from state taxpayers? She opposed a state ballot measure which would have protected the state's salmon fisheries from metal mining pollution, because it could interfere with a proposed new gold mine. Big polluters in Alaska love Palin. When it comes to science and the environment, George W. Bush and Sarah Palin have a lot in common.