Environmental Restrictionists Could Use Polar Bears To Get In The Way Of Infrastructure Projects, By Michael Barone

In his townhall.com column, Hugh Hewitt cites my recent blogpost on Interior Secretary-designate Ken Salazar and raises the question of how Salazar will deal with polar bears. Yes, polar bears. As Hewitt points out in this column and as he has written on his blog at hughhewitt.com, environmental restrictionists want to use the threat that supposed global warming poses to polar bears as the basis of legal suits to stop economic development not just in Alaska but throughout the United States. This sounds outlandish, but it's true. No economic growth because it might raise temperatures in the Arctic, which might in turn reduce the number of ice floes that these attractive carnivores jump on.

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Forget ‘going ethical’ by buying overexpensive organic gifts you can’t afford. Be moral this year instead. [Via Junk Science]