North Pole trek to bring attention to Global Warming called off due to frostbite

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Reminds me of the time the Greenpeace folks came up here to Alaska to camp out and harass some oil field workers. Before they headed up north, they stopped in at a furrier in Anchorage and tried to get some wolf fur ruffs sewn onto their parka hoods. The furrier in question had no problem with it until he saw the Greenpeace logos on their parkas. :laugh: He kicked them out of his store, then called the other furriers in town to warn them, then fed the story of their hypocrisy to the newspapers.

Greenpeace isn't an animal rights organization. That story sounds made up anyway, since wolves are an endangered species and the furriers would have been arrested.

They trap wolves up here, they also have a predator control program where they shoot them to keep their numbers down so that moose and caribou herds can grow in number.

Why not sign up for some wolf trapping classes?

Article about the class from 2005.

Those two species are the most valuable animals trapped in Alaska and together make up as much as half the total value of the trapping industry. Arctic wolf pelts, with their long, silky hair, can fetch more than $400 each, though the average price paid for the 1,500 or so wolves taken every year in Alaska was closer to $225, according to the most recent figures available from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The average wolverine pelt is worth slightly more, about $250.

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As for Greenpeace not being an animal rights group, then what is all that business with them confronting whaling and fishing ships to protect whales and dolphins?

I guess arctic wolves aren't protected, despite being the same species as gray wolves.

Protecting whales isn't about animal rights, but about preservation. The international moratorium on marine mammal killing isn't about animal rights, but preserving species that are endangered or that humanity does not want to see become endangered again..

Well then, if it's about preservation, shouldn't the same be applied to the wolves since they're an endangered species in some areas? Unless you're a Greenpeacer that's going to be camped up north for weeks on end and you know how much the fake fur ruff on a parka sucks, and you figure you deserve the wolf fur more than the wolf it grew on.

By the way, it's not just artic wolves that are taken down, it's gray wolves as well. If I recall the numbers correctly, the gray wolves are taken down more than the arctic wolves.

Wolf bag limits.

 

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Originally posted by: thetxstang

...and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.

Shens. Huge shens. It may have been dangerously cold, but nothing at all exceeding 100 below. 100 below zero has never been recorded in the Northern Hemisphere since modern-day record keeping was established. (I'm a huge weather fanatic, trust me.)

And 100+ below wind chill doesn't count. The official wind chill values conversion chart was significantly revised in recent years. The prior, amazing, so-called "feels like" temperatures are a thing of the past.

Even at the north pole? I was under the impression that 100 below temps were somewhat common in that part of the world.