<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: Reindeer threatened by global warming, oil drilling? </title> <atom:link href="https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/</link> <description>All the junk that’s fit to debunk.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:38:22 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title> By: Lawrence Wittsell (Larry) </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6393</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lawrence Wittsell (Larry)]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:21:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6393</guid> <description><![CDATA[This lady is another Chicken Little who was hit on the head by an Environut and is now dancing around screaming, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!!" Man's worst effect ever on the climate is the formation of smog over large cities during the periods of natural inversions, etc. Those pseudo-scientists that support the concept of man-made climate change are those who want the public to panic so they will provide huge dollar grants to support their "research." I've never seen a live caribou and I probably never will. But I have seen starving and handicapped children that deparately need help. The funds from more oil and gas wells would help a lot.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This lady is another Chicken Little who was hit on the head by an Environut and is now dancing around screaming, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!!” Man’s worst effect ever on the climate is the formation of smog over large cities during the periods of natural inversions, etc. Those pseudo-scientists that support the concept of man-made climate change are those who want the public to panic so they will provide huge dollar grants to support their “research.” I’ve never seen a live caribou and I probably never will. But I have seen starving and handicapped children that deparately need help. The funds from more oil and gas wells would help a lot.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Ben of Houston </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6392</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben of Houston]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6392</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6372">nik</a>. You forget, domestic animals don't count. That's why the desert tortoise is still endangered despite thriving both on golf courses and in captivity. Save the endangered poodle!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6372">nik</a>.</p> <p>You forget, domestic animals don’t count. That’s why the desert tortoise is still endangered despite thriving both on golf courses and in captivity.</p> <p>Save the endangered poodle!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: eck </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6391</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[eck]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:15:22 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6391</guid> <description><![CDATA[Morons Rule!! The really bad news is that noone in any widespread media is going to call her on this! There IS no real mainstream newspeople (OK, there may be a few). It's up to the internet sources, such as Steve's , to carry the ball. Contibute if you haven't. (Caveat, I may have not, I'll have to check)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Morons Rule!! The really bad news is that noone in any widespread media is going to call her on this! There IS no real mainstream newspeople (OK, there may be a few). It’s up to the internet sources, such as Steve’s , to carry the ball. Contibute if you haven’t. (Caveat, I may have not, I’ll have to check)</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: John Douglas Swallow </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6390</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Douglas Swallow]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:26:36 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6390</guid> <description><![CDATA[I'm not going to bother to look it up but I know that this is the truth, unlike what Wildlife Conservation Society Canada executive director Justina Ray lies about in this totally false report that she gives. How is that these people can get away with putting forth such false hoods? There were approximately 5,000 head of caribou Prudhoe Bay herd before the field was developed, now there are over 25,000 head in the herd. Development sure caused a lot of changes and stress on this particular bunch of Santa's sled pullers, about like how the deer in the lower 48 have reacted to the west being developed. These kind of dishonest people need to be called out on these kinds of lies but we all know that there are plenty of brain dead, brainwashed greenies out there that believe this kind of BS.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m not going to bother to look it up but I know that this is the truth, unlike what Wildlife Conservation Society Canada executive director Justina Ray lies about in this totally false report that she gives. How is that these people can get away with putting forth such false hoods? There were approximately 5,000 head of caribou Prudhoe Bay herd before the field was developed, now there are over 25,000 head in the herd. Development sure caused a lot of changes and stress on this particular bunch of Santa’s sled pullers, about like how the deer in the lower 48 have reacted to the west being developed. These kind of dishonest people need to be called out on these kinds of lies but we all know that there are plenty of brain dead, brainwashed greenies out there that believe this kind of BS.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Bob </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6389</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:27:05 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6389</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just send your money in. All this tear jerker is is a recycled money grub. They don't e en seem to be much embarrased in doing it.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just send your money in. All this tear jerker is is a recycled money grub. They don’t e en seem to be much embarrased in doing it.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: whitetop </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6388</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[whitetop]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:01:03 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6388</guid> <description><![CDATA[The road adjacent to the pipeline and containment levees around drilling sites make for dry land where the caribou can get out of the wet tundra and get their hooves dried. There is a small worm that bores into the hooves and cripples the animals if they can't get their hooves dried periodically. So man's activity has had a beneficial impact on the caribou. Just like those nasty drilling rigs offshore in the Gulf of Mexico create habitat for fish.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The road adjacent to the pipeline and containment levees around drilling sites make for dry land where the caribou can get out of the wet tundra and get their hooves dried. There is a small worm that bores into the hooves and cripples the animals if they can’t get their hooves dried periodically. So man’s activity has had a beneficial impact on the caribou. Just like those nasty drilling rigs offshore in the Gulf of Mexico create habitat for fish.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Russell </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6387</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:23:27 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6387</guid> <description><![CDATA[It reached the point long ago where anything an "environmentalist" says can't be trusted. This is just another in a long string of examples. If only they knew how low their credibility is, maybe they'd take steps to be more honest, Nah, I doubt it.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It reached the point long ago where anything an “environmentalist” says can’t be trusted. This is just another in a long string of examples. If only they knew how low their credibility is, maybe they’d take steps to be more honest, Nah, I doubt it.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: David </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6386</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[David]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:07:53 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6386</guid> <description><![CDATA[I work on the North Slope. I can assure you that the Caribou up here are as thick as they can be. We can't honk at them or gently encourage them to get off the spine road even if we are on an emergency mission. We have to wait for an algore approved environmentalist to get them off even if it means that something burns to the ground or someone dies. As long as the caribou are happy, that's all that matters.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I work on the North Slope. I can assure you that the Caribou up here are as thick as they can be. We can’t honk at them or gently encourage them to get off the spine road even if we are on an emergency mission. We have to wait for an algore approved environmentalist to get them off even if it means that something burns to the ground or someone dies. As long as the caribou are happy, that’s all that matters.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: geof barrington </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6385</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[geof barrington]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:59:23 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6385</guid> <description><![CDATA[the forty mile herd in the yukon and alaska declined from 640,000 to about 10,000. from rifle fire ,over hunting and i heard that the us army used them for target practice . they stopped hunting on both sides of the border and while i dont knoww what they did in alaska , they did a wolld kill in the yukon . about five years ago they crossed the yukon river for thee first time in a long time . they feed farther and farther as their numberss grow . they were estimated to be 70,000 then . and i dont knoow what they are now but more again im sure . the only thing human that bothers them is lead poisening . they do pay attention to that for sure but caribou being caribou (they are dumber than chickens)it takes them a while to figure out that humans can mean death . on the alaska hiway around muncho lake there iis a park and it is common to see dead caribou there , vehicle accidents . they almost refuse to get off of the road .i rran a pilot car there for onne winter , i would race up to them , blowing the horn to drive them off for the big truck i would be piloting , and they would be back on the road beffore the big truck got there , eeven though he was right behind me . climate change causing stress ? i dont think so . there have been seven ice ages in the yukon in the last 150,000 years . a mile of ice over top[ of the yukon river each time . i dont know where this last batch of caribou came from but i do know it would be hard to kill them off . they totally ignore drilling rigs , big trucks ,cats ,pipelines , pumpjacks and anything else manmade except they pay attention to hunting , the only thing .]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the forty mile herd in the yukon and alaska declined from 640,000 to about 10,000. from rifle fire ,over hunting and i heard that the us army used them for target practice . they stopped hunting on both sides of the border and while i dont knoww what they did in alaska , they did a wolld kill in the yukon . about five years ago they crossed the yukon river for thee first time in a long time . they feed farther and farther as their numberss grow . they were estimated to be 70,000 then . and i dont knoow what they are now but more again im sure . the only thing human that bothers them is lead poisening . they do pay attention to that for sure but caribou being caribou (they are dumber than chickens)it takes them a while to figure out that humans can mean death .<br /> on the alaska hiway around muncho lake there iis a park and it is common to see dead caribou there , vehicle accidents . they almost refuse to get off of the road .i rran a pilot car there for onne winter , i would race up to them , blowing the horn to drive them off for the big truck i would be piloting , and they would be back on the road beffore the big truck got there , eeven though he was right behind me .<br /> climate change causing stress ? i dont think so . there have been seven ice ages in the yukon in the last 150,000 years . a mile of ice over top[ of the yukon river each time . i dont know where this last batch of caribou came from but i do know it would be hard to kill them off . they totally ignore drilling rigs , big trucks ,cats ,pipelines , pumpjacks and anything else manmade except they pay attention to hunting , the only thing .</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Ian L. McQueen </title> <link>https://junkscience.com/2011/12/reindeer-threatened-by-global-warming-oil-drilling/#comment-6384</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian L. McQueen]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:04:04 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://junksciencecom.wordpress.com/?p=8273#comment-6384</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jim Atkinson wrote (in part): I have seen them [caribou] in Maine, Nova Scotia, on Prince Edward Island, and even New Brunswick...... PROVE ME WRONG! Jim: Sorry, but caribou are extinct in NB and NS. See: http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/endangeredspecies/caribou/sclayden.htm I live in New Brunswick. IanM]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim Atkinson wrote (in part): I have seen them [caribou] in Maine, Nova Scotia, on Prince Edward Island, and even New Brunswick…… PROVE ME WRONG!</p> <p>Jim: Sorry, but caribou are extinct in NB and NS. See: <a href="http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/endangeredspecies/caribou/sclayden.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/endangeredspecies/caribou/sclayden.htm</a><br /> I live in New Brunswick.</p> <p>IanM</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>