The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

The corrupt administration of George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney continues to allow exploitation of the natural resources that belong to the people of the USA, while the nation's biotic nature deteriorates causing greater and faster climate change.

The moral issue is, how long does a people continue to allow corrupt government to exert it's power inappropriately while the USA's reputation internationally grows in greater and greater distain?

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m

Temperature :: 30 °F / -1 °C

Conditons :: Overcast

Humidity :: 86%

Dew Point :: 27 °F / -3 °C

Wind :: 4 mph / 6 km/h / 1.5 m/s from the NNW

Pressure :: 29.36 in / 994 hPa (Rising)

Windchill :: 27 °F / -3 °C

Visibility :: 8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16
Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 1000 ft / 304 m
Mostly Cloudy 2000 ft / 609 m
Overcast 6000 ft / 1828 m
(Above Ground Level)

The example of 'Bad and Evasive Government' is evident with the listing of Polar Bears to the Endangered Species List. This is more proof of the incompetency of the US Fish and Wildlife Service under this administration. This is a series of blunders 'allowed' by this administration to facilitate corruption in providing 'service' in favor of Big Oil. It's just that simple. This is without a doubt corrupt government at it's worse.

The Polar Bear classification has gone through standard process and still today there is no decision making. The administration in The White House needs to be impeached and this is STILL another reason why. They allow incompetency to disaffect 'The Public Trust' and provide vehicles of exploitive corruption.

Bush and Cheney are guilty of incompetent government under their administration and no one can deny it, although they'll try.

Oh, they'll definately try.

And while the public through activist groups such as these environmental organizations fight back against the 'pre-meditated incompetency;' the cronies of this administration are provided a window to exploit natural resources and cause greater damage to the environment and species.

Let's face it folks, once the damage is done and the profits taken the only avenue of 'justice' are fines and jail terms, but, even in the case of Abramoff there is such minimal sentences that the 'elite' just don't care. When companies can afford their crimes they will commit them anyway and then complain that government needs to provide better 'tort' reform to prevent them from being disaffected at all.

That is what the USA has in the White House. Slick politicians that do not lead but provide venues of exploitation for their cronies. Just that simple.

Conservationists condemn plans for Alaskan Arctic Ocean petroleum leases (click here)
6 days ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The federal Minerals Management Service gave final approval Wednesday for oil and natural gas development off Alaska's northwest shore, drawing condemnation from environmental groups worried about the area's wildlife, including polar bears.
The MMS said it would hold a lease sale Feb. 6 in Anchorage for bidding on almost 120,000 square kilometres of outer continental shelf lands in the Chukchi Sea, the part of the Arctic Ocean that begins north of the Bering Strait and stretches between northwest Alaska and the northern coast of the Russian Far East.
It would be the first federal OCS oil and gas lease sale in the Chukchi Sea since 1991. MMS Alaska spokeswoman Robin Cacy said the area contains an estimated 15 billion barrels of conventionally recoverable oil and 2.18 trillion cubic metres of conventionally recoverable natural gas.
The Chukchi Sea is home to one of two U.S. polar bear populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is days away from deciding whether polar bears should be declared threatened because of global warming and its effect on the animal's primary habitat, sea ice.
"The polar bear's existence is increasingly threatened by the impact of climate change-induced loss of sea ice," said Margaret Williams, managing director of World Wildlife Fund's Kamchatka and Bering Sea Program. "The chances for the continued survival of this icon of the Arctic will be greatly diminished if its last remaining critical habitat is turned into a vast oil and gas field."
Polar bears spend most of their lives on sea ice. They use sea ice for to hunt their primary prey, ringed seals. In Alaska, females use sea ice to den or to reach denning areas on land....


Fish and Wildlife Service postpones polar bear listing decision
DAN JOLING
Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday it will delay making a decision on listing polar bears as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act.
The deadline is Wednesday and the agency announced that it hopes to provide a recommendation to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne for a decision within the next month.
Environmental groups that petitioned to protect polar bears said they would go court to ensure a timely decision.
"We certainly hope that the polar bear will be listed within the next month," said Kassie Siegel, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity and lead author of the listing petition.
She said environmental groups will begin legal action Wednesday with a formal notice to sue as required by the Endangered Species Act.
A petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council more than two years ago claimed the polar bear's primary habitat, sea ice, is threatened because of global warming.
The summer of 2007 set a record low for sea ice in the Arctic with just 1.65 million square miles, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, nearly 40 percent less ice than the long-term average between 1979 and 2000.

http://ap.juneauempire.com/pstories/state/ak/20080107/232313131.shtml