THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 81, March 25, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
COLD NORTH POLE, COLD SOUTH POLE
By Alan Caruba
ENVIRONMENTALISTS VERSUS AMERICA'S ACCESS TO ENERGY SOURCES: THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AS A
VEHICLE BY WHICH GREENS CAN PREVENT AMERICANS FROM HAVING ACCESS TO THE OIL THAT WOULD REDUCE TO SOME
EXTENT U.S. DEPENDENCE ON OIL FROM THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE PROPOSED LISTING OF SEALS & POLAR BEARS AS
ENDANGERED SPECIES, TO BE PROTECTED UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT FROM OIL EXPLORATION &
EXTRACTION IN & AROUND ALASKA: A DELIBERATE ATTACK BY ANTI-AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS ON THE
SECURITY & ECONOMY OF THE AMERICAN NATION -- ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS AS ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. THAT
MUST BE DEMONIZED & DISCREDITED
FULL STORY:
I was suspicious when the U.S. Department of the Interior announced it was considering the listing of polar bears as an
“endangered species,” particularly since the designation has nothing to do with the current, thriving population, but a
computer model projection that, in fifty years, they might be endangered. Since polar bears have been around for
hundreds of thousands of years, the notion they might suddenly go missing in fifty years is questionable.
The fact is polar bears operate in waters around Alaska where geologists believe there are major reserves of undiscovered
oil and natural gas. As you may recall, Alaska is also a place where there are vast known reserves of oil in the ANWR area.
The refuge is huge. Only the 1.5 million acres -- i.e., 8% on the northern coast of ANWR is being considered for
development. The remaining 17.5 million acres, or 92%, of ANWR will remain permanently closed to any kind of
development. If oil is discovered, less than 2000 acres of the over 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain would be affected.
That's less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by production activity.
So my suspicions were aroused when I received a March 26, 2008, news release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration saying that NOAA’s Fisheries Service had accepted a petition from “a California environmental group
seeking protection under the Endangered Species Act for an ice seal called the ‘ribbon seal’ that inhabits Alaska’s Bering
Sea.”
If this goes forward, then the bearded, spotted, and ringed seals will also be considered for protection. What they need is
protection against the polar bears because the seals are all considered a three-course meal by any one of the 50,000 polar
bears roaming around that area.
It is now blatantly clear, if it has not been to date, that the Endangered Species Act exists to provide Greens, or political
environmentalists, with a vehicle by which they can keep Americans from having access to the oil that would reduce to
some extent our much vaunted dependence on oil from the Middle East. That would seem a good thing to most people, but
not to the environmentalist enemies of any and all forms of energy — particularly energy on which the U.S. depends to
maintain and rebuild a shaky economy.
These listings are not a coincidence. They are a deliberate attack on the security and economy of the nation. Somewhere in
the Bush administration, the word has gone out that it is okay to consider taking action that will harm the United States of
America and its longterm energy needs.
From the Great North to the great south, Antarctica, the media has been making a big deal of the potential calving of the
Wilkins Ice Shelf. It is cited as yet another example that global warming is happening and we’re all going to die unless we
stop driving, shut down all the utilities and manufacturing plants in America, begin to live in tents, and cook our meals over
an open fire.
A fact that is inconveniently ignored by the media is that the vast majority of Antarctica is in a decades-long cold spell. It
has been cooling since around 1979. Indeed, the majority of Antarctic and the Southern Ocean is accumulating ice, not
losing it. So, if the Wilkins Ice Shelf should experience any loss, it would run counter to the trend there.
Joseph D’Aleo, Executive Director of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, points out
that, “In reality, the Wilkins Ice Shelf and all the former shelves that collapsed are small and most near the Antarctic
peninsula, which sticks well out from Antarctica into the currents and winds of the South Atlantic.” It lies over a tectonically
active region with surface and subsurface active volcanic activity. If Wilkins breaks up, it will eventually do what other ice
masses do. It will refreeze.
The media, besotted and enthralled by the global warming lies, continues to inaccurately report the truth of events like the
Wilkins shelf because they just don’t care about the truth any more. They, like their fellow Greens, have an agenda and, if
that means telling big fat lies by leaving out key elements of a story, that’s okay by them.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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