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December 29, 2006
Good News For Polar Bears, Bad News For Us
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 29, 2006 9:30 AM
Comments
Hey
this "Brief Analysis" is too brief indeed... This guy´s "research" is based on data back in 2002-as appear in the graphic (FOUR GLOBAL WARMING YEARS!!!!) One month before the publication of this Brief (april 3/2006), TIME magazine entitled an special report on global warming as "Be worried. Be VERY worried" with -guess what, a BEAR TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM THIN ICE. And by the way, why do you think that Moscow, The Alps and several other places that USED TO HAVE SNOW DIDN'T HAVE THIS FALL?? (Do you remember?, Christmas=Snow?)
Certainly the main damage caused by the global warming is the melting of some brain's cells in some bloggers...(And I am not a tree-hugger)
Posted by: Alex at December 29, 2006 7:11 PM
Snow in australia at the wrong time of year.
These things happen mate.
Posted by: Archonix at December 30, 2006 5:30 AM
Yeah, Alex, we all know that the Earth's climate is NEVER supposed to vary for any reason, and every year is supposed to be precisely like every other year.
Tell the folks in Denver about Global Warming why don't you.
Meanwhile, we have another profile in dhimmitude: Simon Fraser university.
Posted by: V the K at December 30, 2006 8:02 AM
By the way, Alex, have you ever heard of something called, "The Little Ice Age," which lasted from the 16th to the mid-19th centure, and was characterized by abnormally low temperatures throughout the northern hemisphere? Have you ever considered that what you and the Cult of Gaia call 'Global Warming' is nothing more than a return to climate norms after a period of unusual cold? Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the Earth's climate is cyclical, and constantly cycles between warmer and cooler periods regardless of what humans do about it?
Posted by: V the K at December 30, 2006 8:07 AM
Funny, as I was reading this piece my wife popped in and told me she was listening to a conservationist official in Alaska who was responding to this recent polar bear die-out hysteria. Not to be said she!
The fellow has been studyng polar bears for thirty years and is working in conjunction with colleagues in other northern venues. His report is that their population is increasing somewhat in his area and in general he wished that other threatened species were doing as well as the polar bear!
Posted by: Begbikr at December 30, 2006 11:49 AM
