UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire - Warm skepticism: Jury out on climate change - Wednesday, Jul. 1, 2009

As the scientific case for carbon caps and other costly steps to combat global warming weakens, the push to pass something accelerates. Proponents want to pass laws before the case for them evaporates. The opposite should happen. We should slow down and gather more data before taking improvident steps that could devastate our economy without helping the environment.

WEBCommentary(tm) - Propagandizing or Education?

An article by Johanna Sorrentino at Education.com (titled "Get Your Kids Global Warming Savvy") reveals survey results "of more than 1,000 middle school students across the country [that] found that kids fear global warming more than war, terrorism or the health care crisis." Not only does this statement suggest the US has a non-existent "health care crisis" but it demonstrates the dangerous power of misinformation in education. Sorrentino's article is full of the very misinformation that leads to the unwarranted fear children have about "global warming."

It's an EIB Animal Rights Update!

"A recent study found that the population of polar bears in eastern Canada was significantly on the rise because of abundant prey. In fact, only two of 13 polar bear populations in Canada are in decline, a researcher says. Total population worldwide estimated at 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears." It charts it here from polar bear populations in 2001 and on forward. "Another report shows that polar bear encounters," meaning people that run into them, "on the North Slope oil fields have risen to record levels the last two years. The global warming religionists blame the increase in polar bear sightings on shrinking ice flows. So, now the alarmists are blaming manmade global warming on both increased and decreased polar bear populations. There are 5 times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago." Five times as many, and the sources: New York Times, covebear.com, International Bear Association, International Wildlife, Polar Bear Study Group. Those are the sources for the stats, that there are five times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago. Remember, in August of 2008 Sarah Palin sued the federal government seeking to reverse the decision to put the polar bear on the threatened species list.