That Didn’t Take Long: Enviros Want Global Warming Laws Tied In With Polar Bear Status

Just a few days after the Interior Department decision, in what was clearly a bow to the politically correct eco types, environmentalists are crying that the Bush Administration didn’t go far enough by listing polar bears as threatened.
They want global warming laws to be part of the package:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Conservation groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials’ refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species Act.
In court documents filed late Friday, the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups asked a federal judge to reject Interior Department actions that were announced last week.

Can these people possibly be any more transparent?

Kassie Siegel, climate director for the CBD, said the administration’s proposal “violates both logic and the law” because it did not address the primary threat to polar bears. The listing of polar bears under the law is significant, she acknowledged, but the groups want them classified as endangered, a more serious category than threatened.

There was an ancient fable about a camel that was freezing on a cold desert night. The Bedouin owner allowed the camel to stick its nose under the tent to keep it warm. Then came the neck. Then, before he knew it, the whole camel was in the tent and Bedouin was out in the cold because of his generosity.
This action on the part of the enviros is the camel’s nose under the tent and it was graciously allowed to get there by an overly generous Interior Department’s decision to declare a non-threatened species as threatened. The politically correct enviornmentalists’ intent is clear: stop oil production and force all of us to live according to how they think we should live.
Didn’t waste any time getting under the tent, did they?

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  • http://www.fileitunder.com/ Rob B.

    I just wish they would go save the bears…personally. Ya know, a hands one "saving." Just like the way that nature, and darwinism, intended.

  • robert108

    Now the lefties want to write laws based on a hypothesis? Isn't that just a little bit stupid?

  • HG

    Isn't that just a little bit stupid?

    Yeah, but par for the liberal course.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Excuse me, there's more polar bears now than we've ever counted, ever.

    Plus they managed to live through the other warm spells.

    This polar bear stuff is a fricken lie like the rest of the man-made global warming crap.

  • Bat One

    A little background: The Natural Resources Defense Council has announced that up to two-thirds of polar bears "could perish by the middle of this century", while in May of 2006, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the polar bear to its "Red List" of the world's most imperiled animals, predicting a 30% reduction in the polar bear population in the next 45 years.

    Meanwhile, according to both Sea World and the World Wildlife Federation, the world population of polar bears has increased from an estimated 10,000 animals in 1968 to between 21,000 and 25,000 animals currently.

    So while the eco-alarmists are out in force, wailing and wringing their hands, the polar bear population has actually increased by up to 250%!

    That's some cam yer runnin' there, Lefty!

  • Pilgrim

    Bat,

    So…if between one third and two thirds of the polar bear population dies off by the middle of this century, then they'll basically be back to where they started, won't they? At least according to the enviro's own numbers, that is.

    There. Problem solved.

  • Bat One

    Pilgrim,

    I could be mistaken, but I recall nothing in the literature to suggest that those on the Left are not arithmetically challenged. On the contrary…

    Of course with the ever diminishing Harp seal harvests, the polar bears are unlikely to be the least bit malnourished.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Well if there's a problem with the Canadian seal harvest than they should limit or stop the harvest.

    I fail to see why I should change my behavior.

  • Pilgrim

    Whistler:

    I fail to see why I should change my behavior.

    If you wouldn't club all those baby seals the poor polar bears would have more to eat. It's all your fault.

  • http://www.wethepeopleforum.com/forum/forums.asp golfmann

    Now the lefties want to write laws based on a hypothesis? Isn't that just a little bit stupid?

    Doesn't that define Kyoto, etc. in a nutshell?

  • Brian H

    The bears will cope by moving south and eating people.

  • Bat One

    The bears will cope by moving south and eating people.

    Until they meet up with people with guns who own mountain vacation homes and need large fireplace rugs.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    The bear populations are exploding and the totalitarian response is to call them "endangered".

    Welcome to the reality inverted upside down thinking that is a prerequisite for admission into the "reality based community".

    This game they're playing is getting old. "Opposite day" should have went out of style when they were eight years old. It's a little kid game suited to a little kid mentality played by the self proclaimed "intellectuals".

  • robert108

    Until they meet up with people with guns who own mountain vacation homes and need large fireplace rugs.

    Supply and demand.

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