I Love Half Price Books, But This Is Propaganda

I went to Half Price Books In Des Moines in December.

I even tweeted on it:

$6.98 at Half Price Books. I love this place: http://tweetphoto.com/59186738:48 PM Dec 5th, 2009 from TweetDeck

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Because the wife and I loaded up on books, we were given some free loot to take with us. One of the things we were given was a new 2010 calendar. It now being 2010, I went to tack it up next to the computer. That’s when I saw this:

I love, love LOVE Half Price Books, but this is propaganda.

The first sentence is dead on. That actually happens, and has happened for centuries. However, it isn’t an observation of global warming. It’s an observation of nature. And the polar bear isn’t in danger of losing it’s natural habitat.

There’s just as much sea ice today as there was when they started keeping track:

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.

What really bothers me is that news story broke in 2008. This is a 2010 calendar still making this claim.

The next statement is one that motivated me to write this post though. “There are less than 25,000 polar bears left in the wild and global warming is a serious threat to their survival.”

“Less that 25,000 left?” That is simply deceitful. The statement makes the reader think the polar bear population is in a state of decline. Quite the opposite:

The polar bear population has soared, rising from an estimated 5,000 polar bears 50 years ago to an estimated 25,000 today. Limiting the hunting of polar bears helped. Limiting the hunting of those delicious baby seals that polar bears like to eat also helped.

Now Canada is overrun by polar bears and there is not enough food to sustain them. There are reports that polar bears are eating other polar bears.

So, you can see there aren’t “25,000 polar bears left.” Stop using deception to sell your hoax. Oh, wait. Yeah, it’s all deception, isn’t it?

Half Price Books, you just lost a customer.

Just kidding. Your store is too awesome for me to stop shopping there. But I’m watching you now.

Get your act together.

http://www.ldjackson.net LD Jackson

It’s actually amazing at the number of people who believe this propaganda. For once, I would love to see a news story on one of the mainstream media outlets that tells the truth about global warming. Since that isn’t likely to happen, I reckon it’s up to folks like you and me.

For what it’s worth, we are having a very cold winter in the Oklahoma/Arkansas area. The high today has been 30° and it isn’t supposed to be much warmer all week. It is supposed to be getting down to single digits a couple of nights this week, with a chance of snow. I have no doubt they will find some way to blame it on global warming.
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http://www.ldjackson.net LD Jackson

It’s actually amazing at the number of people who believe this propaganda. For once, I would love to see a news story on one of the mainstream media outlets that tells the truth about global warming. Since that isn’t likely to happen, I reckon it’s up to folks like you and me.

For what it’s worth, we are having a very cold winter in the Oklahoma/Arkansas area. The high today has been 30° and it isn’t supposed to be much warmer all week. It is supposed to be getting down to single digits a couple of nights this week, with a chance of snow. I have no doubt they will find some way to blame it on global warming.
.-= LD Jackson´s last blog ..Coming soon, more stimulus spending from Congress =-.