Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Bear cheek

Here.

From a linked article:
Listing the bears is so controversial because, in many experts’ minds, the polar bear simply doesn’t seem to be threatened. “At this time, the bears are as numerous as they’ve always been across their range,” says Matt Cronin, a professor of animal genetics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This is unusual for a species considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. One U.S. study, for example, showed that animals listed as “threatened” had a median population size of 4,000 — a far cry from the estimated 25,000 bears on the planet.
The post includes a link to this article, entitled "Peter Walsh: Labor should ditch greenies".

Excerpt:
Anyone who knows anything - including the authors associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - concedes their models are imprecise, even if they have not been designed to prop up favoured or predetermined conclusions. But Ian Castles and David Henderson's exposure of the fanciful economic statistics incorporated in IPCC models suggests they have been fiddled. If your case is immaculate, why feed lies into it?

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