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Friday, January 28, 2011

Polar bears are not
endangered!
Exclusive: Tom DeWeese trashes 'new green
scheme to block human progress'

Posted: February 08, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

By Tom DeWeese

Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., apparently doesn't care if you freeze in
the dark. Actually, his real concern is for the money he gets from the
rabid environmental movement to promote their lies and hysteria. The proof
is in his actions.

Markey, chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and
Global Warming, is now pushing legislation to stop the sale of oil
drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea. He says this important source of human
energy "may be" needed as critical habitat for the polar bears'
"survival."

Protecting the polar bears from global warming is the new green scheme
to block human progress. "Global warming is melting the polar ice caps and
endangering the polar bear populations," so the mantra goes.

But, it's not true. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, average Alaskan temperatures are NOT climbing. Yet
environmentalists have skillfully selected the years of the 1975-2000
warming period to create the appearance of a warming that – if continued –
would lead to a catastrophic Arctic warming that would lead to destruction
of polar bear populations. This is junk science at its worst.

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Polar bear populations are not declining throughout their range. The
total population is about 22,000 and stable. Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a
biologist with the government of Nunavut, in Canada's Northwest Territory,
says, "Polar bears are not going extinct" and do not even "appear to be
affected." In fact, the Nunavut government continues to allow hunters to
kill up to 500 polar bears a year to keep populations under control and
preserve other wildlife species the bears feed on. According to Taylor, of
the 13 separate polar bear populations in Canada, 11 are stable or
increasing in number.

So for Rep. Markey to block much-needed oil supplies for the sake of a
polar bear population that doesn't need protection means the real disaster
will be felt by the human species – you and me.

Worse, the Bush administration, under pressure from the environmental
movement, is taking steps to add the polar bear to the endangered species
list. If that happens, it will be the first ever listing in the name of
"climate change." The results on humankind will be devastating.

That's because, under the Endangered Species Act, any activity that is
regulated by the federal government (because it affects air or water
quality, for example) would now be subject to further regulation
using the excuse of greenhouse gases and potential effects on polar
bears.

As those who have been watching the "climate change" debate know, that
term can mean anything. Proponents say climate change causes the ice caps
to melt; causes massive hurricanes; causes milder hurricanes; causes
massive rain fall; causes deserts; causes flooding; causes colder winters;
causes milder winters; in short, climate change is an undefined theory
that can mean anything its proponents find necessary to enforce their
agenda. That is a very dangerous premise on which to try to function as a
society.

To date, no such regulations based specifically on global warming have
ever been issued or enforced, but it's a disaster in the making for our
economy and way of life.

For example, companies that need to expand their facility emissions or
make modifications, expand their manufacturing capacity, increase shipping
and a host of other activities (in other words, grow) would find more and
more regulations holding them back – in the name of protecting polar bear
habitat because of climate change.

Americans must resist the emotional images of cute, furry polar bears
as victims and fully understand that virtually everything we do involves
fossil fuels – whether we like it or not. Eighty-five percent of our
energy comes from fossil fuels. That means almost every heating, cooling,
transportation and electricity generation decision will be affected.
Utility and manufacturing companies will be required to slash their CO2
emissions – and be forced to raise their prices to cover those huge new
costs.

But it won't stop there. Every other source of carbon dioxide, methane
and other kinds of emission will also be regulated and restricted by
environmental alarmists, including: bakeries, breweries, chicken and dairy
farms, cattle ranches, dry cleaners, auto manufacturers and dealers,
cement and other industrial facilities and on and on. Every one of the
products produced by these companies will either go up in price or cease
to exist. In fact, all items produced using energy will increase in price,
including aspirin and toothpaste.

As costs go up, so will costs to heat and cool your home, drive your
car, clothe your family and put food on your table. As companies seek ways
to cut expenses to cover the cost of climate-change regulation, they will
trim their workforces or send jobs overseas.

Basic civil rights and individual freedoms will be hammered. Al Gore
and his elite buddies will still fly their private jets, but the rest of
us will be told what and how much we can drive. Government is already
trying to gain control of our thermostats, as recently witnessed in
California's proposed building codes that called for radio-controlled
thermostats to give outside access to your personal settings. Higher and
higher gas prices will begin to control where you can travel on vacation.
Controls on food production will dictate the food on your table.

No item and no person will escape the devastation of our way of life if
"climate change" is allowed to become the excuse for making policy. Blue
collar, poor, fixed income and minority families will be the hardest hit.
But everyone's jobs, freedoms and cost of living will be affected.

And in the end, even if all the sacrifice demanded really were for
protecting the environment, it wouldn't matter at all. Because China and
India will continue to emit more and more carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere. And our climate will continue to change, just as it has
repeatedly over the ages – from natural causes.

The fact is the entire notion of catastrophic climate change is based
on nothing more than hypotheses, headlines, hype, hysteria, worst-case
scenarios from climate-change computer models, and the insatiable desire
of bureaucrats and radical activists to eliminate fossil fuels and control
our lives. It is a fact that hundreds of scientists are coming out every
month to announce their doubts about manmade global warming. There is no
consensus. Yet they continue to force this discredited policy.

It's all happening right now. Any day, Secretary of the Interior Dirk
Kempthorne plans to announce his decision to include "threatened polar
bears" under the Endangered Species Act. And Congressman Markey is right
now moving to ban any hope of drilling more oil to keep human civilization
moving forward.

Don't you wish we humans had someone to represent us and protect our
ability to survive just like those cute little fuzzy bears? But that would
be politically incorrect. Humans, they tell us, aren't part of the
environment and so deserve no such consideration. We're just the ones
stupid enough to elect these clowns.

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Tom DeWeese is president of
the American Policy Center
and editor of The DeWeese
Report.