Poor Al Gore. This just isn’t his month. First his wife dumps him like a globally-warmed potato and now the United States and Russia have agreed to let native peoples kill polar bears.
The Anchorage Daily News has the details:
A joint commission is recommending lifting the ban on harvesting polar bears for traditional and cultural purposes in Russia.
The U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Commission met this week in Anchorage to determine the potential for a coordinated and sustainable subsistence harvest of polar bears by Native peoples of Alaska and Chukotka in Russia. The commission determined that the harvest should be limited to up to 58 polar bears a year, with no more than 19 being females.
So it turns out Al Gore may have been right after all. The polar bears are endangered, but it ain’t global warming that’s going to kill them. It’s Eskimos.
Source: Anchorage Daily News via Tim Blair
