Monday, May 26, 2008

Global Warming and the Polar Bears

Okay so there is a lot of talk about Global Warming and how it's going to destroy all of mankind but not before killing the poor defenseless polar bear. Okay let's get some things straight about the Polar Bear. 1st, it is not poor and defenseless point of fact, if you were to run across a Polar Bear, it would probably disembowel you and have you for dinner. Okay I know that is just their nature and it's not their fault, and I agree. I just think that most of the world thinks of Polar Bears as some cute and cuddly creature that sits up on a snow bank sipping on its coke.
Recently we made one of the biggest boneheaded moves in the history of boneheaded moves. We decided that we should list the Polar Bear as an "threatened species" animal due to global warming. First, if you are going to list a species as a"threatened species" shouldn't the species numbers actually be going down? I mean, in 1972 there were only about 5,000 Polar Bears remaining. Now, there are over 25,000. So, their numbers have actually increased by 5 fold.
Here is something else to consider. The ice core record shows us that there were periods in the earths history when it was MUCH warmer than today. In fact, the scientist all agree that there were indeed times in the Earths history when there was no snow on the polar ice caps. The most recent and deepest ice core samples to date actually have plant matter in them (must be land under that ice). So, if there was a time in our history when there was no ice on the polar ice caps, did it kill off the Polar Bear? Of course not. How can I be so sure? BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL WITH US TODAY!!


Now, the media and it's supporters on the left would love it if we would all just believe that the Ice at the Polar Ice Caps is thinner than it has ever been.
Of course, in order to do that, we would have to remove some facts from the history books. One fact comes to mind immediately for instance, a name the media would love for global warming alarmists not to know is Roald Amundsen,a Norwegian explorer who successfully navigated the Northwest Passage on August 26, 1905 (h/t Walt Bennett, Jr.):

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this Passage was clear enough of ice for a wooden sailboat, with a crew of seven, to successfully navigate it more than 100 years ago. How many times in the history of the planet do you think a similar - or even more ice-free - condition existed in this area?
Not that the media cares, but this Passage was also conquered several times in the 1940s (emphasis added):



Built for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force to serve as a supply ship for isolated, far-flung Arctic RCMP detachments, St. Roch was also designed to serve when frozen in for the winter, as a floating detachment, with its constables mounting dog sled patrols from the ship. Between 1929 and 1939 St. Roch made three voyages to the Arctic. Between 1940 and 1942 St. Roch navigated the Northwest Passage, arriving in Halifax harbor on October 11, 1942. St. Roch was the second ship to make the passage, and the first to travel the passage from west to east. In 1944, St. Roch returned to Vancouver via the more northerly route of the Northwest Passage, making her run in 86 days. The epic voyages of St. Roch demonstrated Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic during the difficult wartime years, and extended Canadian control over its vast northern territories.

Let's get real people, if we have any effect on the global climate, it is insignificant at best. The weather on this planet has done one thing consistently and this CHANGE. There is a old saying that says, "if you don't like the weather, just wait"

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