The Obama Administration recently upheld a Bush policy concerning polar bears. Rather than use the Endangered Species Act to enforce eco-Marxism, they plan maintain the status quo and find another way to protect the bears.
The greenies were not pleased:
“Failing to rescind this rule continues the Bush legacy of ignoring global warming science and blocking any meaningful action to protect the polar bear,” Melanie Duchin of Greenpeace said by telephone from Anchorage, Alaska.Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity questioned the Obama team’s argument that the Endangered Species Act is not meant to deal with large threats, noting that it was used to limit the use of the pesticide DDT.
Senator Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, also disagreed with the move.
“Monitoring the situation will not tell us more than we know now — that the polar bear is threatened and we need to act,” the California Democrat said in a statement.
The whole idea behind this outrage is simple. The polar bears are threatened because global warming is causing the ice to Arctic ice to melt.
The facts are just as simple. Arctic ice is twice as thick as expected and polar bears are thriving:
Meanwhile, up in the Arctic, after yet another delay for bad weather, the hapless Catlin trio, sponsored by an insurance firm which hopes to make money out of alarm over global warming, continue their painful progress towards the distant North Pole, measuring the ice with an old tape measure and assuring Prince Charles by satellite telephone that it is “thinner than expected”.When the trio heard a passing aircraft, which they hoped was bringing much-needed supplies, they little realised it was a DC-3 carrying an international team of scientists, using the latest electro-magnetic induction equipment to discover rather more efficiently that the ice was in fact “twice as thick” as they had expected.
As I wrote before, polar bears were turned into a prop because they are cute, not because they are endangered. Watts Up With That backs me up. The fact is that April was cooler than normal and the Sun is incredibly quiet. Yet the eco-mafia is relentlessly marching us towards a new Kyoto protocol that will hamstring the American economy.
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