“Polar bears are not going extinct,” and do not even “appear to be affected.”
Polar bears on ESA will lead to economic destruction
Hot in the news today is the drive to list the Polar Bear as an endangered species as a result of Global Warming. Urgent messages are being issued by environmental groups that the polar ice caps are melting and thus endangering bear populations. Children are terrified. Animal rights groups are mobilized as tears are shed and cries for action are filling the air ways.
There are two major problems with the drive to list the polar bears on the endangered species list.
First, it isn’t true that they are endangered. They are not declining throughout their range. The total population is about 22,000 and stable.
Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a biologist with the government of Nunavut, in Canada’s northwest territory, says, “polar bears are not going extinct,” and do not even “appear to be affected.”
In fact, the Nunavut government continues to allow hunters to kill up to 500 polar bears a year in order to keep populations under control and to preserve other wildlife species that the bears feed on.
According to Taylor, of the 13 separate polar bear populations in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number.
More over, according to a just-issued report by Climate data analyst Stephen McIntyre, the world’s sea ice is at a 25 year high in April. In short, the polar ice cap is not melting.
So what is behind the scare tactics to list Polar Bears on the ESA.
In short, such a listing will set a huge and dangerous precedent that will affect our entire society and could be devastating.
That’s because, under the ESA, any activity that is regulated by the federal government (because it affects air and water quality, for example) would now be subject to further regulation using the excuse of greenhouse gasses and its potential effects on polar bears.
Global warming is little more than an unproven theory that is now under much debate.
To date no such regulations based specifically on global warming have ever been issued or enforced. To do so now would give the government unprecedented power over the economy and our daily lives.
Every source of carbon dioxide, methane and other kinds of emissions will be regulated and restricted by environmental alarmism, including bakeries, breweries, chicken and dairy farms, cattle ranches, dry cleaners, auto manufacturing, cement and other industrial facilities.
Any enterprise, no matter where it is located in the world, would be said to effect Polar Bear habitat simply because it put emissions in the air, thereby helping to cause global warming, thereby helping to destroy polar bear habits.
All of that may become our reality now that Polar Bears are listed – based on bad science and unproven or debunked theories.
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