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December 29, 2006
Good News For Polar Bears, Bad News For Us
Posted by Dave Blount at December 29, 2006 9:30 AM
Global warming propaganda notwithstanding, polar bears are in no danger of being driven into extinction by our SUVs, as a report by the National Center for Policy Analysis makes clear.
Moonbats like to pull heartstrings by pretending that the cuddly monsters are threatened. However, a study by Dr. David Legates, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research, found no basis for this claim.
Even the idea that the arctic is getting warmer is debatable. Greenland has been experiencing a cooling trend. Russian coastal stations also fail to show the rising temperatures predicted by computer models.
In some areas, there has been a warming trend, which is hardly alarming, considering that the climate has always fluctuated and always will, whether Al Gore likes it or not. Interestingly, but not all that surprisingly, the polar bear population has actually increased in areas that have been getting warmer, and decreased in areas that have been getting colder. Life likes warmth.
Unfortunately it will take more than facts and common sense to calm liberals out of their condition of deliberately induced climate change hysteria. CNN posted a dozen reader emails on the topic of polar bears being listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act — something that would be done for purely political reasons. Naturally, every single email took the point of view that global warming is real, is caused by humans, is dooming polar bears, and must be stopped by massive government intervention in the economy.
Global warming may be a farce, but global warming hysteria will result in poverty on a scale not seen since the Great Depression if hysterical liberals aren't distracted by some new fad before they are able to cripple the economy in the name of a few thousand useless and completely unthreatened polar bears.
On a tip from Wiggins.
