Posted on 09/30/2008 1:37:10 PM PDT by pissant
The Republican Sarah Palin and her officials in the Alaskan state government drew on the work of at least six scientists known to be sceptical about the dangers and causes of global warming, to back efforts to stop polar bears being protected as an endangered species, the Guardian can disclose. Some of the scientists were funded by the oil industry.
In official submissions to the US government's consultation on the status of the polar bear, Palin and her team referred to at least six scientists who have questioned either the existence of warming as a largely man-made phenomenon or its severity. One paper was partly funded by the US oil company ExxonMobil.
The status of the polar bear has become a battleground in the debate on global warming. In May the US department of the interior rejected Palin's objections and listed the bear as a threatened species, saying that two-thirds of the world's polar bears were likely to be extinct by 2050 due to the rapid melting of the sea ice. Palin, governor of Alaska and the Republican nominee for US vice-president, responded last month by suing the federal government, to try to overturn the ruling. The case will be heard in January.
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Good for her!
Ditto!
The same morons who claim the polar bears are endangered are the ones who accuse the Israelis of genocide against the paleostinians, depsite the FACT that the populations of both have been and are INCREASING.
So they’re trying to get me to like her even more? Strange for the Guardian, but okay...
“Ed Pukington?” Did you make that up, pissant?!
The truth is there are way too many Polar Bears for the food(seals) in the enviorment..available..
There is no worse sin for the Left than questioning the existence of global warming.
When Obama becomes President, you'll be beaten with small sticks for spouting such heresy. It'll be for your own good.
It’s Pilkington. Just a typo, I am sure. /s
Save the Polar Bears...for dessert! :)
Go, Sarah, Go!
Thought Crime! Thought Crime! Beware of Global Warming Deniers! Only opinions approved by Al Gore and Maurice Strong allowed on AGW!
And there is no greater joy for a conservative than ridiculing global warming in front of libs....oh I love it so much, unfortunately the coming ice age is going to ruin everything....dang!
Same people who are against hunting deer -
they don’t have gardens/crops being destroyed nor are they subject to lyme disease tics that those big rodents carry around.
This has ZERO to do with protecting polar bears. This is the enviro-whackos trying to stop all oil drilling in Alaska. This is about property rights vs. the anti-drilling NAZIs. They could care less about the polar bear.
I’m pretty sure that I read a few months ago, when the dispute over the development of Alaskan natural resources began, that the polar bear population had expanded from 5,000 +/- in 1970 to 25,000 +/- now. How the enviro-wackos reconcile these numbers is beyond me.
But wait, my wacko brother-in-law pointed out to me recently that the “Man-made global warming causes global cooling, too!”
WTF?!?!?
Wow, if she found SIX scientists who are AGW skeptics that’s a lot more than the MSM ever admitted to before.
Polar bears’ gotta eat too...
But seriously, the people in question think the polar bear has more right to eat a person than a person has a right to shoot a polar bear.
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