By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008
I read the front page article in The Kansas City Star today about the polar bears being added to the endangered species list as threatened and it says, “The bear population across the Arctic doubled from about 12,000 to 25,000 since 1960.”
This, despite the fact that the same article says, “summer ice melts have been dramatic since 1979.”
So let me get this straight; the ice is melting yet the bear population doubles.
Please explain to me how this makes a case for putting the bears on the endangered species list or makes a case for the harmful effects of a slightly warmer climate.
Let us not deny the real agenda behind putting polar bears on the list. That would be to place limits on oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic waters.
Until some reason is injected into this global warming debate we will continue to see an upward spiral in the cost of energy and food.
Threatened, endangered, my Aunt's Elbow. What a loan of bovine scatology.
You want to know why we are paying four bucks a gallon for gasoline. As the tree hugging dipsticks like Inter Flop.