Polar Bears are a threatening species.
Putting polar bears on the threatened species list was a political move of appeasement. How can a bear that has doubled in population over the years and is allowed to be hunted be a threatened species? They say the ice will melt in the future but they do not have a clue that it actually will. If the bear population actually starts to decline action might need to be taken but not enough ice is going to melt anytime soon to threaten the polar bears.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne says he will not allow this ruling to set climate policy but he just opened the door to that being done. Whenever anyone wants to build a coal plant or drill for oil in the arctic they will now have to fight the environmentalists in court. If the democrats should take control of government what Kempthorne says will not matter a whit. We know what they will do and that will send the price of energy through the roof.
This ruling needs to be challenged in court. It is good to hear that the Pacific Legal Foundation plans to do just that. While your at it, go to the heart of the issue and challenge the whole CO2 caused global warming myth in court. Make them come up with scientific evidence to prove their case that rising CO2 is the cause for global warming. They cannot.
Polar bears actually threaten man in many parts of the arctic they are one of the most vicious threating species toward man on earth, which is probably why the human hating radical environmentalists love them.
“I want to make clear that this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice from melting,” said Kempthorne. “…The ESA is not the right tool to set U.S. climate policy.”
Kempthorne sought to assure the business community that the bear’s protection would not keep someone from building a coal-burning power plant or drill for oil in Arctic waters.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce applauded the decision. “It will protect polar bears while also protecting American jobs and businesses,” said Bill Kovacs, the Chamber’s vice president for environmental affairs.
But some business groups weren’t as impressed.
The ruling “will unleash a torrent of lawsuits” by environmentalists and “give them a powerful new legal sledgehammer” against businesses and agricultural operations especially in the West, warned Jim Sims, president of the Western Business Roundtable.
Reed Hopper, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, which frequently has challenged the Endangered Species Act in property rights disputes, said he plans to challenge the bear listing as well in court.
The polar bear “already is the most protected (animal) in the world and needs no additional protection,” maintained Hopper. He noted the number of polar bears have more than doubled since the late 1960s from 12,000 to about 25,000 across the Arctic region from Alaska to Greenland.
Date posted: Thursday, May 15th, 2008 9:02 am | Under category: Junk Science, control freaks, delusion, dumb, global warming, irrational, politically correct, politics
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Henry Kissinger said that “a leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.” President Bush used to be a leader, whether he was always right is another question though. However, I respected Bush far more when he was standing alone in a world full of ecofanatics and going against the current and ready to take action against jihadists while the Left was crying for their Fascist antisemite friend Hussein. But now he and his administration have turned into the yet another lame “cool” and “hip” UN-adhering, truth-forsaking government. What sets America apart from other nations these days? Even Israel is being forced to give up their land to terrorists by U.S. “Christian” conservatives now, just as the godless politicians, nations, the U.N. and the antisemites want it. Again I’m wondering whether this is what Bush actually believes or whether it’s a PR stunt and connected to his endorsement of McCain who is also a “believer” in man-made global warming. In any case, it’s plain stupid.