Biologists: Every polar bear in Alaska will be gone by 2050 Sarah Palin: So?

Biologists from the US Geological Survey have warned that if current climate trends continue, every polar bear in Alaska will be gone by 2050. But Gov Palin has no truck with this.

When the Bush administration announced its decision, in May this year, to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, Palin filed a lawsuit to reverse the decision, insisting it was a "wrong move" to protect polar bears.

Writing in an open-ed piece for the New York Times, she said that these "magnificent, cuddly white bears are doing just fine and don't need our protection. If the ice melts, they'll adapt to living on the land."

Given that polar bears have shown little ability to feed on land, scientists were generally unimpressed by her argument.

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