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EDITORIAL: Hurray for polar bears--Growing population negates climate-change hysteria
The Washington Times ^ | August 23, 2009 | Editorial

Posted on 08/23/2009 11:04:04 AM PDT by jazusamo

It's a good time to be a polar bear. Unusually cool temperatures in the northern climes last winter produced thicker-than-usual polar ice. This gave the lucky bears an extra two weeks to roam the ice floes to hunt ringed seals. As a result, adult bears are better fed and more cubs are surviving their first year. The bears will go into the winter with greater energy stores, which will mean a better chance of survival and even more cubs.

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The global-warming religion is highly resistant to facts. This came home to us recently when Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Democrat, told the Detroit News that global warming is increasing "volatility" in the atmosphere. "I feel it when I'm flying," she claimed. "We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes." The notion that Mrs. Stabenow can sense climate volatility while jetting about is risible, but the fact that she serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and is a leading proponent of the job-killing, growth-destroying cap-and-trade legislation is no laughing matter.

Compare the senator's sensory perception to hard data. In the past three years, the number of hurricanes has fallen dramatically, and tropical-cyclone activity is at one of the lowest points in the last 50 years. We hope that facts such as thickening Arctic ice and decreasing climate volatility can overcome the almost mystical attachment some politicians have to global-warming orthodoxy.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: arctic; capandtrade; environuts; globalwarming; polarbear; polarbears
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To: norge

Debbie and her ilk conveniently forget those kind of facts when it doesn’t fit their agenda, it’s really frustrating that many don’t see these people for what they are.


21 posted on 08/23/2009 12:36:05 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Feckless

LOL! A real head case. Sounds like she knew what you thinking because it was true that she was a head case and knew it.


22 posted on 08/23/2009 12:38:22 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

What a person has to realize is that global warming is much like heath care,it isn’t about global warming, it is about controlling the populace and stealing money from the taxpayer.


23 posted on 08/23/2009 12:40:27 PM PDT by calex59
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To: jazusamo

Don’t confuse me with facts, my mind is made up!!


24 posted on 08/23/2009 12:55:05 PM PDT by jesseam (G)
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To: jazusamo; potlatch; devolve; MeekOneGOP
Al Gore is still "not a scientist" and Debbie Stabenow now gets delirium tremens in addition to jet lag.

What's dba Obama got his thermostat set at in the multimillion-dollar castle on Martha's Vineyard.

25 posted on 08/23/2009 1:06:21 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: PhilDragoo; jazusamo; potlatch; devolve
Al Gore is still "not a scientist" ...

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You've got THAT right!

But he IS still an elitist / statist / hypocrite!!!

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26 posted on 08/23/2009 1:55:11 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: savedbygrace

The article indicates the educational and intelligence level of some (if not most) of our elected representatives.


27 posted on 08/23/2009 2:01:37 PM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine
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To: jazusamo
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Democrat, told the Detroit News that global warming is increasing "volatility" in the atmosphere. "I feel it when I'm flying," she claimed.

And she's a Senator??? Forget the citizenship requirement, there needs to be a minimum IQ and Knowledge requirement to be a Senator. Poor lil' Debbie is an imbecile.

28 posted on 08/23/2009 2:02:11 PM PDT by GBA
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To: PhilDragoo
[Al Gore is still "not a scientist"]

 


29 posted on 08/23/2009 2:10:28 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: MeekOneGOP

Good ‘toon’ Meek, that’s just how HE lives!


30 posted on 08/23/2009 2:12:00 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: MeekOneGOP; potlatch

Both your toons are good ones and most appropriate, Gore is a real hypocrite.


31 posted on 08/23/2009 2:19:46 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Thank you jazusamo.


32 posted on 08/23/2009 2:22:39 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

LOL!

Dat’s algore alrighty !!!


33 posted on 08/23/2009 2:26:33 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: potlatch

Sometimes the old blind hog finds an acorn now and then.

:^D


34 posted on 08/23/2009 2:27:19 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Lol, I have huge Live Oak trees in my yard. One is probably a hundred years old. The squirrels plant acorns in all my potted plants and I yank them out with a vengeance!!
35 posted on 08/23/2009 2:36:46 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: jazusamo

but but buttt...

what about those poor ringed seals that got eaten by all those big nasty polar bears????


36 posted on 08/23/2009 2:50:20 PM PDT by AFPhys
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To: Ken522

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What do polar bears get when they sit in one place too long?? Polaroids! Tee hee hee ....

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ROTFLMPO!

Excellent Pun!


37 posted on 08/23/2009 2:52:10 PM PDT by AFPhys
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To: potlatch

Squirrels = Rat cousins!

Acorns ... it’s what’s for dinner! :)


38 posted on 08/23/2009 3:31:29 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: jazusamo

Those (#*&^$%$% polar bears are nothing but paid shills for big oil. It’s so obvious, only a fundamentalist Republican nutbag could miss it. Every one of them, I’ll bet, has a big fat bank account and consultancy agreement with Royal Dutch Petroleum and Exxon with the proceeds deposited in some offshore bank. Their nondisclosure agreements are ironclad, that’s why none of them will talk. Every Thursday, Sarah Palin threatens their children with Down’s syndrome by waving Trig out of a helicopter on fly-bys paid for by Conoco executives who hate government health care and then the polar bear cubs won’t be able to use any of the library books Palin’s already pulled from the shelves from her little base of operations in Wasilla.


39 posted on 08/23/2009 3:52:25 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

LOL!

If it were only that simple. :-)


40 posted on 08/23/2009 3:58:04 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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