Pictures say it more poignantly than graphs ... maybe the Supreme Court will consider the Polar Bear. Maybe ...

I don't want to constantly harangue about my #1 concern -- yes, more than either the occupation in Iraq or the trillion dollar debt or even Joe Lieberman's silly threat to bolt the party (he denies that, of course) and run as an Independent if he loses the primary on August 8 -- but first and foremost, I am concerned about our planet and the flora and fauna that inhabit it.

Being an "animal lover" of the most pathetic kind, I feel sad just looking at photos like the ones above wherein (in each) a polar bear is foraging for food in its most disadvantageous environment -- on land -- after all, its #1 "menu" is fish, of course. One report I unearthed suggested that many females are unable to breed due to malnutrition.

I remember that, while watching An Inconvenient Truth, I was almost in tears over what, in fact, was only an animation of a polar bear who was unable to find a large enough ice flow to hold its large weight -- thus causing it to drown. And yes, polar bears are drowning on a regular basis in the Arctic and the photo below shows an example of what is becoming oh, so common in what was once a wonderful God-given environment for Polar Bears.

It's enough in this posting that I simply present a photo or two and recommend that you all get on the bandwagon to help the effort to have the Supreme Court rule that the EPA can include carbon dioxide in its programs against air pollutants. EPA regularly investigated the carbon dioxide problem under President Bill Clinton

Among the organizations to which I belong is the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and they have an excellent Questions and Answers web page for those who aren't up to date on just what Global Warming is. I don't ordinarily hawk for any organization, liberal, conservative or otherwise, but you could do no better than to support the NRDC.

In the meanwhile, we can all take some comfort in the fact that the Supreme Court has agreed, as of this week, to consider whether the various state government agencies, environmental groups and even the previous occupants of the White House are and were, in fact, correct in interpreting the Clean Air Act to include what is most likely the very most dangerous air pollutant threatening the entire earth. Sounds simple, but GWB reversed that thinking in 2001 and he has added two of his own to the court since that time.

I have a very close friend in the EPA who will be retiring next March. What a great retirement gift a favorable Supreme Court ruling would be for him ... and all of us! Included among "us," of course is the Ursus Maritimus (Latin name for the white critters in the above photos). Let's not let the polar bear be added to the growing list of extinct animals on this, the only earth they and we share.
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