Should the West ever secede over “green” attempts to appropriate our energy industries, we should consider asking Alaska to join us;
I am disappointed and disturbed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to weaken the Endangered Species Act by listing the polar bear as threatened despite the steady increase in the species’ population. Scientists have observed that there are now three times as many polar bears in the Arctic than there were in the 1970s.
Never before has a species been listed as endangered or threatened while occupying its entire geographic range.
This decision was made without any research demonstrating dangerously low population levels in polar bears, but rather on speculation regarding how ice levels will affect Arctic wildlife. Worse yet, today’s decision cannot and will not do anything to reverse sea ice decline.
Instead, this action by the Fish and Wildlife Service sets a dangerous precedent with far-reaching social and economic ramifications. It opens the door for many other Arctic species to be listed, which would severely hamper Alaska’s ability to tap its vast natural resources. Reinterpreting the Endangered Species Act in this way is an unequivocal victory for extreme environmentalists who want to block all development in our state.
The manipulation of the Endangered Species Act was highlighted by Kassie Siegel, the lawyer who wrote the legal petition for the Center for Biological Diversity. Ms. Siegel made no attempt to disguise her group’s intent when she said that the effort to list the polar bears was to ‘try to make the point that global warming is not some future threat’. This statement confirms that these fringe environmentalists are simply using the polar bears to advance their extreme agenda.
This abuse of Endangered Species law will have a devastating impact on the entire nation through endless litigation and regulation. It will ultimately weaken the Act itself, which has been one of our nation’s most valuable tools for conserving wildlife.
Alaskans must now stand together and fight attempts to exploit the public’s fear of climate change as a means to impose unreasonable burdens in our state. The future of Alaska will depend on it.”
Kate, the entire green movement was founded in Canada’s west. It will be hard for the west to succeed from itself unless by the west you refer to Alberta alone. Also given SK’s penchant for electing socialists and sucking huge amounts of money from Ontario and Alberta in handouts (and founding socialist parties,) a right-wing utopia is not assured. As far as MN is concerned… I won’t even go there.
Lefties … always wrong and never take responsibility for the consequences.
Has anyone analyzed concentration of salt in sea water? I bet, considering amounts of salt washed into the seas from the streets of Toronto etc. salinity level increases, and it might be linked to retreating ice shields.
If the west will secede, then it must first carve off Vancouver and Victoria, plus the more hippy-infested parts of the Island and Sunshine coast. Lotta hippies in the Yukon, too.
The Us decision was only based on pure emotion and popular opinion of the caffee latte crowd. Blame Coca Cola and their use of ‘cute’ computer generated polar bears…
A few days ago Mike Duffy was reviewing the US’s decision and was watching polar bear footage which he then exclaimed “Look how they are cute!”…I immediatly thought he purposely did it to get email reactions the way he sounded so unconvincing…If he was sincere he should know that these bears unlike other kinds will kill and eat a man without fear or second thought EVEN when one is to apply the ‘roll in a ball and play dead’ survival trick. They are the number one walking killer predator on earth and they are, NOT shy of humans.
But they’re soooooooo cute!
And why haven’t we yet heard the droning whine of a Suzuki telling Canada to get on board and list the Polar Bear as endangered, rather than merely a “Special Concern”? Isn’t he supposed to be a biologist? Or did he forget all his biology when he crammed all the “global warming” nonsense into his skull? Or, perhaps, he knows the truth; that polar bears aren’t endangered!
Ms. Siegel made no attempt to disguise her group’s intent when she said that the effort to list the polar bears was to ‘try to make the point that global warming is not some future threat’.
Ms. Siegel is has a point.
Global warming is not some future threat.
So, polar bears aren’t an endangered species and Global warming isn’t a future threat.
Life is good.
“Now it’s the polar bear, granted mostly symbolic protection by the United States this week as the highest-profile potential casualty of global warming as its mostly Canadian domain disappears with the Arctic Ocean ice melt.
Ironically, the polar bear’s primary diet is the seal, and it has a particular affinity for the young pups it grabs by the head and chews, a death surely more prolonged than the fatal whack of a sealers’ hakapik.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=2e964385-7848-4b4c-a237-1b4310255b2e
There is a solution to this kind of thing, y’know. Its called a TAX CUT. If U.S. Fish&Wildlife’s budget got slashed in half, and their middle management reduced by two thirds or better, we wouldn’t be seeing headlines like this.
Too much government looking for a way to justify its paycheck my friends, pure and simple.
“Too much government looking for a way to justify its paycheck my friends, pure and simple.”
Phantasmagorically right!!!!
just think. if the idiots are right they will all be dead because survival of the strong will be the rule. all the whimps will be gone. all the climate modelers will be gone. oh joy.
Cold comfort old white guy. Go have a quick look at Kate’s “Electoral Genocide” post. Empty stomach would be advised.
That’s a little slice of the kind of action you’re talking about here. We soooo don’t want to see that here. Maybe consider rearranging a few of your cells toward avoiding that kind of thing instead of cheering it on, eh?
Tax cuts are easier to take than a machete cut to the head, right?
Phantomically correct!
It’s a supply problem, as in: an excess of national income is eaten by by government and what passes out, well you get the idea …
A good friend and I, commisserating about this kind of extreme silliness, have come to the conclusion that sanity will only be restored with a severe recession (say like 73-74; 81-82) or depression. Hard economic dislocation has a way of forcing people to focus on the fundamentals.
MND, you may be right, and I really hate to say it but old white guy may be too. I’d like to say I see a way to get around the necessity of calamity and the subsequent growing of a clue by the general population.
But, and this is the kicker, the current asinine situation of ‘way too much government has its roots in the post WWII period, right after the biggest calamity in Western history to that time.
I think we may be able to WORK our way out of this, and Kate shows the way with this blog. We keep talking, keep pointing at the propaganda and laughing, keep stomping on the authors of our sorrows.
Live free or die, boys.
There’s another climate change bill percolating that would limit production of coal out of the Powder River Basin to a range of 7 to 80 million tons annually by 2030. Current production runs quite a bit north of 400 million tons and is projected to be well north of 500 million by 2030. Guess we’ll all be sitting around in the dark down here. Buy stock in candles. Oh, and any lurking moonbat trolls should be aware that your “plug-in” cars use the same coal-fired grid as the rest of us. Your green plans for the auto industry are as usual stillborn.
Believe I’ll burn three or four gallons on my 15 mile commute home tonight in celebration [if everyone will just get off my interstate].
Tomorrow on Question Period,both John Baird and Suzuki will be on. I hope it is at the same time.It would also be nice to get the head of Parks Canada up there with them to explain the problems they are having with the growing numbers of the ‘endangered’ species.
I want photos of Polar Bears eating baby seals disseminated across the suburbs everywhere.
JUSTICE MINISTER? The guy is an embarrassment to every conservative thinker in Canada. Lets petition Harper to get rid of him. I get answers to every email to every other minister except Rob. With his record so far, I wouldn’t answer either. Th guy is useless! PMSH has done a good job so far, but he and Nicholson have dropped the ball on the CHRC, and its ENABLING legislation. Also, an enquiry should be called into the CHRC and RW. There is an obvious abuse of privelage there, warranting an RCMP investigation, Why no updates on the Lemire police complaint about the CHRC abusing a citizens private internet connection? No need to reply to the Justice department’s brief to the CHRC. The analysis of the author is enough to show how misleading their reply is. ROB…. U GOT SOME ‘SPLAININ TO DO!
Even the red star has ‘slipped up’ and reported:
“Canada’s greenhouse-gas emissions drop in 2006”.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/426661
Oh the irony. My sides hurt from laughing so much. I can’t believe this isn’t ALL over the MSM (I’m just kidding…I know better).
Ed the Hun
I submit, for consideration, the possibility that under the current US Supreme Court, the underlying law will not survive and, therefore, was the reason the current regulation was imposed
Just a thought…
Whadda you going believe … your lying eyes or a computer game?
I love Alaska. It like what the Yukon could have been if it wasn’t taken over by dead-enders, hippies and government employees.
many people in ALASKA openly resent the greens they want to reduce ALASKA into a world park so they can move all the people our so them and their wealthy hollyweed supporters can enjoy on their guided tours and this eco-tourism is a big time fruad becuase its acuialy more ruinus to the wildlife becuase of some dim-witted flatlander wanting to get a perfect picture often drive birds off their nests and ruining the eggs
Those cuddly Polar Bears
http://www.videosift.com/video/Polar-Bear-Catches-and-Eats-a-Seal
This is a cruel hoax. The people who live in the North and have co-existed with the polar bear for a hundred generations say something else. See what the Inuit elders think about polar bears:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/04/25/arviat-bears.html
I was blogging about this last year when a NPR report put me in a state of rage [kinda mad anyway:]
http://tinyurl.com/6k5xub
The energy rich states of the middle part of the continent might succeed in getting the coasts to secede by turning envinromentalism against them. For example, the current financial crisis might be a good time to start planning for the restoration of Long Island to wildness. I am not sure of the Canadian equivalent. I will say though that the likelihood that the Michigan peninsual will be restored to wilderness within 3 decades is very high.
The energy rich states of the middle part of the continent might succeed in getting the coasts to secede by turning envinromentalism against them. For example, the current financial crisis might be a good time to start planning for the restoration of Long Island to wildness. I am not sure of the Canadian equivalent. I will say though that the likelihood that the Michigan peninsual will be restored to wilderness within 3 decades is very high.
Polar bears prefer eco-wacckos their easier to catch and taste like chicken