RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. We gotta do an animal rights combo, animal rights, environmentalist wacko update from the archives, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, Andy Williams sings our favorite animal tune.
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Hey, hey, let the song establish here before going all nuclear on the ammo.
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All right, now time to drop some bombs.
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‘A recent study found that the population of polar bears in eastern Canada was significantly on the rise because of abundant prey. In fact, only two of 13 polar bear populations in Canada are in decline, a researcher says. Total population worldwide estimated at 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears.’ It charts it here from polar bear populations in 2001 and on forward. ‘Another report shows that polar bear encounters,’ meaning people that run into them, ‘on the North Slope oil fields have risen to record levels the last two years. The global warming religionists blame the increase in polar bear sightings on shrinking ice flows. So, now the alarmists are blaming manmade global warming on both increased and decreased polar bear populations. There are 5 times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago.’ Five times as many, and the sources: New York Times, covebear.com, International Bear Association, International Wildlife, Polar Bear Study Group. Those are the sources for the stats, that there are five times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago. Remember, in August of 2008 Sarah Palin sued the federal government seeking to reverse the decision to put the polar bear on the threatened species list.