Anonymous
Looks like the Oil industry sat on it’s duff and allowed the Polar Bear to become listed as Endangered, even though it is based on future 50 year weather projection . When have we ever believed these LT weather model projections??
But Interior Secretary Kempthorne did add a ruling that it would be “wholly inappropriate” to use the (Endangered Species Act) listing as a tool to reduce greenhouse gases, as environmentalists had intended to do. NDRC & Greenpeace are already at work to remove the motion.
I cannot understand why Oil people aren’t at work to over turn the listing since it is the first time a thriving species has been put on the list based on extreme long term weather projection 50 years in the future!!
Here is the news item link:
Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species
[size=-1]New York Times, United States – May 14, 2008
[size=-1]Mr. Kempthorne said the Endangered Species Act was “never meant to regulate global climate change” and that it would be “inappropriate” to use the polar … <see full news article at link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/us/15polar.html?em&ex=1210910400&en=4a56875483b0a38b&ei=5087 >
Link to article comparing sea ice & global temperature hockey stick look that eventually proved false for
“Gore” global warming graph, and has comparison of Russian ice data to current Polar Bear Sea Ice chart.
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/10/30/arctic-sea-ice-another-hockey-stick/