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Why Does President Obama Hate the Polar Bears?
The Heritage Foundation/ The Foundry ^ | May 8th, 2009 | Conn Carroll

Posted on 05/09/2009 4:11:43 PM PDT by Delacon

Today the Obama administration’s Department of Interior announced that it would keep a Bush administration rule [1] forbidding government scientists from considering global warming when protecting polar bears pursuant to the Endangered Species Act.

When the Bush Interior Department announced their rule, they were roundly [2] criticized [3] by the enviro-left [4]. It will be interesting to see how they react to the Obama administration taking the same position.

More interesting is how the Obama EPA justified their decision. McClatchy reports [1]:

On Friday, the Interior Department reluctantly agreed, saying that it’s scientifically impossible to use the Endangered Species Act to regulate greenhouse gases, which are contributing to the warming of the earth and the resulting melting of bears’ habitat in Alaska. The emissions from a cement plant in Georgia, for example, can’t be tied directly to the precipitous decline in polar ice, Salazar said.

But neither can the emissions from just one car tailpipe be tied directly to global warming. So by that same logic, the EPA has no business regulating carbon emissions pursuant to the Clean Air Act. [5] If it is “scientifically impossible to use the Endangered Species Act to regulate greenhouse gases” than it is also scientifically impossible to use the CAA to regulate greenhouse gasses.

After all, The ESA is a far more powerful law than the CAA, especially if your aim is to shut down carbon emissions. Section 7 of the ESA requires all federal agencies [6] to consult with either the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) or the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) for “any action authorized, funded, or carried out. [6]

In other words, every action funded by the federal government has the potential to be shut down by the ESA. All that billions of infrastructure funding in Obama’s $787 stimulus bill? It all would increase carbon emissions, so the ESA could kill it all.

No wonder Obama threw the polar bears under the bus.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: caa; climatechange; co2; epa; esa; globalwarming; polarbears
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1 posted on 05/09/2009 4:11:43 PM PDT by Delacon
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To: pissant; neverdem; CedarDave; 2ndDivisionVet; steelyourfaith; Sub-Driver; xcamel; ...

ping


2 posted on 05/09/2009 4:12:30 PM PDT by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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To: Delacon

‘Cuz they’re white?


3 posted on 05/09/2009 4:17:24 PM PDT by tanuki (The only color of a leader that should matter is the color of his spine.)
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To: Delacon

Obama’s prejudiced against white bears


4 posted on 05/09/2009 4:17:53 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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To: tanuki

Same thought I had.


5 posted on 05/09/2009 4:20:30 PM PDT by infidel29 (BARACkarl OBAmarx)
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To: Delacon

There is no such thing as hypocrisy on the left.


7 posted on 05/09/2009 4:21:45 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (When the going gets tough, Democrats switch sides.)
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To: Delacon
Why Does President Obama Hate the Polar Bears?

Who cares?

I want to know why he hates the U.S.

8 posted on 05/09/2009 4:26:08 PM PDT by cayuga (We lost the soapbox to MSM bias, and the ballot box to ACORN. The cartridge box is all we have left.)
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To: Delacon

thanks, bfl


9 posted on 05/09/2009 4:33:15 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: tanuki

You beat me to it.

Because they are white. Period.


10 posted on 05/09/2009 4:40:38 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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Wonder what his views are on Pandas...
11 posted on 05/09/2009 4:47:52 PM PDT by Semper Mark (We're being held hostage in the wet dream of a 60's radical.)
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To: Markos33

Long as the view is from the back, they should be okay!


12 posted on 05/09/2009 5:05:50 PM PDT by tanuki (The only color of a leader that should matter is the color of his spine.)
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To: Delacon

Obama is from Hawaii; polar bears have nothing to do with him.


13 posted on 05/09/2009 5:09:34 PM PDT by FourPeas (somewhere in Kenya, a village idiot is missing his sidekick)
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To: Delacon

He doesn’t hate polar bears, he loves seals.


14 posted on 05/09/2009 5:09:46 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart........Palin 2012, can't come soon enough.)
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To: tanuki

Only on the outside...


15 posted on 05/09/2009 6:10:30 PM PDT by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.)
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To: Markos33

I have photos of red polar bears. Red from the blood of the animal they just tore apart and ate


16 posted on 05/09/2009 6:28:12 PM PDT by dennisw (Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Where is Ashley Judd's new video about Obama?
17 posted on 05/09/2009 7:07:13 PM PDT by teacherbarbie (I would go into politics, but I like to keep my youthful looks.)
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To: Delacon
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18 posted on 05/09/2009 9:46:52 PM PDT by odin2008 (EVIL TRIUMPHS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING)
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To: Delacon
Several weeks ago I happened to see a circa-1930's film that depicted the real life of the Eskimo.

In that film they showed the Eskimo's hunting polar bear, and I was really amazed at how these bears plunged into the ocean as if they as happy in the ocean as on land.

Now, when I see the environmentalists queue up the violin music when they show pictures of polar bears "stranded" on little ice bergs it just makes me went to puke.

The name of that movie, BTW, which I can't recommend strongly enough, is simply "Eskimo". Not only is it a great movie with a great story, but it provides amazing insights into the very interesting (and touching) Eskimo life. Here is a link to it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023990/

19 posted on 05/10/2009 12:11:57 AM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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20 posted on 05/10/2009 3:35:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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