The polar bear--the global warming people at work

Please allow me to continue with occasional reports on the unraveling of climate change/global warming hysteria. My interest started when I read Michael Crichton's State of Fear in which he used government documents to show how sneaky and downright dishonest the climate change people were getting. Here's an update on the panic surrounding polar bears.

In 2008, thanks to the global warming crowd, the polar bear was put on the endangered species list. But here's where it gets interesting. The polar bear wasn't put on the endangered species list because it was endangered, you see. Instead, it was put on the list because it "might become" endangered due to climate change. Another key reason the bear was also put on the list had to do with emotions, which seem to me to be at the heart of the entire climate change stupidity. Scientists claimed, without evidence, they had seen a group of drowned polar bears off the coast of Alaska. Of course, people around the world were horrified at this scenario.

But this story is unraveling. Now the scientist who made the claim that polar bears were drowning because of rising sea levels is under investigation for making the entire thing up. Just five years ago, Charles Monnett was one of the scientists whose observation that several polar bears had drowned in the Arctic Ocean helped galvanize the global warming movement.

Now, the wildlife biologist is on administrative leave and facing accusations of scientific misconduct. The federal agency where he works told him he's being investigated for "integrity issues," but a watchdog group believes it has to do with the 2006 journal article about the bear. Doesn't that sound familiar especially now that we have seen tons of emails that show global warming fanatics were disregarding contrary evidence and trying to suppress scientists who opposed their hysteria. Just take a look at "Climategate" in a Google search. By the way, a new batch of emails has been released, showing the same methods at work.
But that isn't stopping U.N. from continuing to promote global warming hysteria. It's moving right on, finding new species to protect. Tough luck, polar bears. There are new creatures we have to defend. Several animal species including gorillas in Rwanda and tigers in Bangladesh could risk extinction if the impact of climate change and extreme weather on their habitats is not addressed, a U.N. report showed on Sunday.

Sigh . . .These people have no shame and no sense of reality. They want to wreck the economies of the developed world for some utopian, unrealistic future. The climate has changed before, and it will again, no matter what we do.