Climate Expert: Kyoto Would Save Only One Polar Bear a Year

businessandmedia.org ^ | June 25, 2008 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Want to save the polar bear? According to one expert, don’t think you’re going to do it by making significant lifestyle changes in order to reduce your carbon footprint.

In May, the Interior Department listed the polar on its threatened species list because of the risks of shrinking sea ice. But Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish author and professor at the Copenhagen Business School, told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 25 that the threat is exaggerated and wouldn’t go away even if every country in the world signed and followed the Kyoto Protocol.

Lomborg, author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming,” explained during the speech in Washington, D.C., how inefficient and ineffective it would be to try to improve the polar bear population via massively curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

[Rufus2007]

The $180 billion polar bear - coming to a zoo near you!

[Red Badger]

Polar bears can live without ice caps. I can live without liberals.............

[Saint X]

I wonder what a polar bear would go for on eBay

[Gamecock]

Zoo polar bears don’t count!

Remember the leftists wanted to kill the baby polar bear in the Berlin zoo?

[dblshot]

Expert: Kyoto Would Save Only One Polar Bear a Year

Yeah but if it was your bear...

[WOBBLY BOB]

but it's a REALLY HUGH bear!!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Mygirlsmom]

If “saving just one child” is the libs’ current benchmark, I figure they’d call saving even 2/5 of one polar bear a smashing success worth any amount of pain and suffering imposed upon us serfs.