Comments on: U.S. hunters, anglers weigh in on climate change

By: f belz

f belz — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:11:25 +0000

I do not think we have even begun to address the change that the population has effected on the earth. We see only our country, but other countries have a large increase in population and the forest is still being cut in many countries. I predict that we will see less people on the earth due to sickness and food shortages. I also believe that we can run our cars without gasoline or diesel and we can also run our power plants without coal or natural gas.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:31:15 +0000

Lindsey Graham is a brilliant climate change scientist, but he forgot to examine the effects of sunspots on climate. Now that we’re out of another sunspot cycle, let’s see what happens to temperatures. Oh… and, by the way, Lindsey Graham may be positioning himself as a moderate to run for president (or he’s just stupid). Just ask the other brilliant climate change scientist John McCain, who also positioned himself as a climate change believer shortly before running for president. Fortunately, the American public won’t be buying another cap-and-tax pseudo-conservative. In fact, it might be time for a Libertarian.

By: James Reginald Harris, Jr

James Reginald Harris, Jr — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:24:25 +0000

I have been a hunter all my life, I have yet to hunt on a glacier, so I’ll just trust the scientists. Kind of like when I broke my arm, I went to a Doctor not an Anthropologist.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:53:58 +0000

As a landowner and a non-hunting conservationist I do not put much stock in the opinion of “sportsmen”. All I see from them is poaching and a disregard for property rights. Climate change is real, ask the wildlife.

By: Ann SHahid

Ann SHahid — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:51:31 +0000

Many hunters/anglers in SC are noticing the effects of global warming. The National Audubon Society’s senior scientists analyzed 40 years of Christmas Bird Count data and found that 58% of the 305 species that winter in the US have shifted signigficantly north and inland. This does not bode well for birds that use marshes, tundra, prairies. Audubon connects this shift to global warming from manmade causes. When food sources shift north and inland and there is an aberrant colder than usual winter, food sources are affected and birds decline. The American Black Duck is wintering 182 miles further north and inland, while the Common Merganser is wintering 106 miles further north and inland and the Northern Pintail, 91 miles. Another game species, the Northern Bobwhite (Quail) is wintering 85 miles further north and inland.Ann ShahidImportant Bird Area CoordinatorClimate and Energy Outreach CoordinatorAudubon SC

By: Grayson Daughters

Grayson Daughters — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:05:27 +0000

There IS a Clinch Heyward who does something, whatever, parades around in hunting gear I suppose, for the SCWF. But given that Reuters just got punked over a fake press release regarding climate change and the US Chamber of Commerce, I had to assume that a heavily-accented “Clinch Heyward” was fake too. But I just called the SCWL and talked to some fast-talker with Lowcountry accent named “Steve.” (steve @ scwf.org)He, Steve of the SCWF, said he DID indeed work for rich-pants Clinch, who likely works hard shooting things mostly. I imagine they at the SCWF trot out old Duncan Clinch Heyward to give Reuters boy reporters a good show. Then they stick him back out in the swamp and let him blast away into air.

By: Grayson Daughters

Grayson Daughters — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:33:23 +0000

“Clinch Heyward” eh? You got so gamed! I smell a SC native-rat behind all this. One with loads of media experience in pulling-off fake news ya-ya. From SC. Now that should narrow down the field so freakin’ far that even a Reuters reporter could figure it out.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:42:35 +0000

The survey included questions like this (with which 85 percent agreed): “We can improve the environment and strengthen the economy by investing in renewable energy technologies that create jobs while reducing global warming.”Could the survey be more biased? Of course that statement is true. How about asking this question and seeing what the response is: “We won’t improve the environment or strengthen the economy by investing in renewable energy technologies that do not create jobs or reduce global warming.”

By: Graham Ford

Graham Ford — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:24:06 +0000

‘The Earth heats, the Earth cools.’ Sure it does, but what you haven’t seemed to notice is the long term drift of a rising temperature that is not explainable by any cause other than green house gas emissions. We can do nothing and have the ice caps melt, the deserts massively expand, populations starve and people fight each other desperately for scarce land and water. Or, we could be wise. Your choice. But be warned, we all might just get the world we deserve.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:37:15 +0000

Continue to be amazed at how people ignore a multitude of peer-reviewed U.S. and international reports from climate scientists that tell us over and over again we have to reduce carbon pollution that is wrecking havoc on our planet. Would the deniers ignore doctors’ reports on what’s harming their kids and not buy the prescription to make them healthier?