As the U.S. Senate now prepares to consider the cap-and-trade climate bill recently passed by the House, they will want to consider all the facts related to this landmark spending program. So far we have learned that the Environmental Protection Agency has suppressed an internal report skeptical about the wild global warming claims and now, from across the pond, we find out that a polar bear expert has been forbidden by global warming alarmists from reporting that most of those animals have actually been increasing in population during the past few years or are at optimum levels.
Although you won't find this story anywhere in the American media, Christopher Booker of the UK Telegraph has delivered an excellent report on this inconvenient truth suppression:
Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.
This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN's major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December. But one of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.
Suppressed EPA report, meet suppressed polar bear report. You both represent inconvenient truths.
Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.
No! No! This wasn't what we wanted to hear. It just does not fit in with our preconceived notions.
He has also observed, however, how the melting of Arctic ice, supposedly threatening the survival of the bears, has rocketed to the top of the warmists' agenda as their most iconic single cause. The famous photograph of two bears standing forlornly on a melting iceberg was produced thousands of times by Al Gore, the WWF and others as an emblem of how the bears faced extinction – until last year the photographer, Amanda Byrd, revealed that the bears, just off the Alaska coast, were in no danger. Her picture had nothing to do with global warming and was only taken because the wind-sculpted ice they were standing on made such a striking image.
Correct, and NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard also reported on this "stranded polar bear" hoax two years ago.
Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week's meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor's, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: "it was the position you've taken on global warming that brought opposition".
Dr Taylor was told that his views running "counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful". His signing of the Manhattan Declaration – a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents – was "inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG".
An inconvenient truth because it is inconsistent with preconceived global warming alarmist notions.
So, as the great Copenhagen bandwagon rolls on, stand by this week for reports along the lines of "scientists say polar bears are threatened with extinction by vanishing Arctic ice". But also check out Anthony Watt's Watts Up With That website for the latest news of what is actually happening in the Arctic. The average temperature at midsummer is still below zero, the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping. After last year's recovery from its September 2007 low, this year's ice melt is likely to be substantially less than for some time. The bears are doing fine.
Your humble correspondent has checked out Watts Up With That? and has found it to be an excellent resource for the truth about the inconvenient facts on the global warming hoax that is ignored by most of the American media. And one such inconvenient fact is that the overall polar bear population is growing, not declining.
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.



















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Global warming like
June 28, 2009 - 09:13 ET by RD Kingosama obama is a fraud and a hoax. The hole in the ozone layer is there because it is supposed to be and there is nothing we can do about who and how it is controlled.
You are correct!
June 28, 2009 - 11:04 ET by RukusAnd it's been expanding and contracting on it's own forever. Barry is an idiot, so are all the moonbats! Sheesh!
Gary
I want my country back!
Disgusting.
June 28, 2009 - 09:23 ET by ApodicticControl the dialogue and suppress dissent. It's the Dalibama-Chicago way. These criminals must be removed ASAP.
Global Warming--Obama's WMD
June 28, 2009 - 09:31 ET by ParagrouperThe house bill, passed Friday while the World watched endless MJ mourning programs, is absolutlely sick. It is a scheme that to allow the government and certain "green" companies to leech revenue from us all.
I wonder if all the media corporations are investing heavily in start up corporations thet will profit from the gobal warming legislation? Pelosi is: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2061059/posts
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - General George Patton Jr
Pooh Bears
June 28, 2009 - 09:33 ET by jaywlYou have fallen for poppycock again. That picture of the bears says it all. They are stranded on what is left of a massive iceberg. The water is so warm the whittle bears will need help getting down from the ice. I suggest one of those "whale wars" boats come to the rescue. Just dock to the ice and say "Come on down, little Pooh. Jump in the boat."
It looks like the person
June 28, 2009 - 12:31 ET by danboIt looks like the person who has been getting credit for the photo took Amanda's picture from a group computer on the boat. And started using it to sell AGWing.
When asked if she will seek compensation for the use of her photo. She said yes.
If the person using this photo to sell AGWing. Took it from someone else and isn't giving the photograper who took it credit. I would be concerned about anything else he told me.
Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.
Polar Bears ate Al Gore
June 28, 2009 - 09:37 ET by Jack BauerIf there's now a surplus of Polar Bears, anyone know what barbied Polar Bear steak tastes like?
Oh and the headline is funny, for a second there I thought the Polar Bears were actually getting on stage to give their own testimony.
That would be amusing though, if they chased down and devoured Al Gore, live on stage.
I bet he tastes like rubber chicken.
Good morning Jack
June 28, 2009 - 10:11 ET by cocodrieAre you sure it isn't the other way around? Algore looks like he just ate a polar bear with some of Master Kerry's ketchup.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
LOL!
June 28, 2009 - 11:08 ET by RukusGood one coco! I think if it were the other way around and a polar bear bit into Al it would spit him out. Poor bear would need to wash it's mouth out with a whale fart. LOL! : )
Gary
I want my country back!
These whackos
June 28, 2009 - 11:26 ET by cocodrieThese whackos are too dumb to realize that these chuncks of ice are actually polar bears' personal fishing boats. When they catch a a seal it becomes their party barge.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Party barge
June 28, 2009 - 12:01 ET by RukusImagine if the bears could get their paws on some
TonyChacerie'!
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
(Did I type that right coco?) : )
Gary
I want my country back!
Gary
June 28, 2009 - 12:10 ET by cocodrieExactly right. I met Tony Chacerie some years back when we installed carpet in his yacht. He was a very nice family man. He could have advised you how to properly pepare polar bear for delicious eating.
The Ch in his name is pronounced as an s.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
You met Tony!
June 28, 2009 - 12:40 ET by RukusWow coco! His spices/rubs are awsome here! Good Lord! Throw in some mud bugs and we have a party! We have got to get together for a boil sometime my friend! Ok, I need to go find some food. Thanks. : )
Gary
I want my country back!
About the only thing I
June 28, 2009 - 12:46 ET by danboAbout the only thing I don't put Tony's on is ice cream. I've even put it in chocolate, pralines and candied pecans. It's great on roasted pecans.
Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.
ha, coco -- arrrrggghhhh,
June 29, 2009 - 03:29 ET by Jack Bauerha, coco -- arrrrggghhhh, drool dripping, Gore ate the polar bear all Homer Simpson like.
Sitting on a Stove
June 28, 2009 - 11:15 ET by wolfemanicHas anyone ever told Al Gore the Antartic is sitting on a stove?
quote:
"This kind of implosive seismicity is rare anywhere on Earth,"
"Powerful eruptions sent a plume of carbon dioxide, helium, and liquid
lava up into the Arctic waters. When the material cooled, rock debris
fell to the ocean floor."
"The dispersal of the particles does not necessarily indicate that the
eruptions were highly energetic, only that the eruption heated the
surrounding seawater and the rising plume of heated water carried the
lava fragments upwards where currents could disperse them," Clague
said.
http://news.national...
Warm water meets Ice and Ice looses. Did you at all, in any fashon factor in all this crazy warm water comming and going under the Ice Al?
It's getting COLDER, snow
June 28, 2009 - 12:19 ET by upcountrywaterIt's getting COLDER, snow on the Solstice
593
NEW record low max temps for the month of June –
and we’re only half way through the month
17 Jun 09 – Here we sit, with our fearless leaders in
Washington DC trying to shove ever more global warming taxes
down our throats. This, while low temperature records are
being broken across the country. Where is the outrage? Where
is the media coverage on this?
fastest ice growth EVER
Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago.
Thanks
to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal
those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.
Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008,
but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of
increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record,
either upwards or downwards.
Hay MSM Looks like your green WIND MILL world, is going to turn white as snow.
I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU... SUN ( no spots today)
Reagan VS Liberalism
Liberals don't care about the truth
June 28, 2009 - 12:31 ET by jefflebowskiLiberals don't care about the truth. They care only for their political agenda and will do ANYTHING to achieve it. One has to admire their fortitude. Too bad the Wussypants Republicans can't get some of that!
Angry White Dude
www.angrywhitedude.c...
Presenting Unproven Theories as Fact IS a Hoax
June 28, 2009 - 17:09 ET by Reaganite RepublicanObama claimed that the average American would not bear the brunt of this historic tax-increase: he stated that instead ““It is paid for by the polluters who currently emit dangerous carbon emissions.”
Just compare this outrageous falsehood to Ronald Reagans’ famous quote:
“The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us.
Business doesn’t pay taxes, and who better than business to make this message known? Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business.”
And after the way the rammed this through the House with little debate, without legislators even reading it… and while quarantining the GOP from any meaningful input whatsoever, any foolhardy individuals who still believe Obama’s threadbare “bipartisanship” spiel ought to have their head examined.
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/
Calling Ben Stein
June 28, 2009 - 17:57 ET by BlueCat57Time for a sequel to Expelled that focuses on NGOs and government agencies.
...and the madness rolls
June 28, 2009 - 22:01 ET by bigtimer...and the madness rolls on...and on...and on.
Some people wonder why others are saying this is madness is leading to a revolution....I'm hoping '10 is the start.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Regarding the topic: Polar Bear Testimony Suppressed Due to
June 29, 2009 - 02:35 ET by Rush Fan'Inconvenient' Truths.
It was my understanding from reliable sources that the Polar Bear was willing to testify, but was told to plead the Fifth on the advice of his attorneys.
Sorry. I couldn't resist.
By the way, no less an authority than Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said this on Meet the Press regarding Global Warming:
With Republican spokepersons such as Senator Graham on the Global Warming bandwagon, it makes it easier for the state-run media to sell Global Warming to the public.
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Sure climate change is
July 7, 2009 - 21:27 ET by Radical1979Sure climate change is real. The temperatures change every day and every season. But there's no proof the change is caused by man! News flash for government officials: You can't control nature, so don't even try. You'll only mess things up.
In a related development;
July 7, 2009 - 21:20 ET by nadadhimmiIn a related development; Flat Earth Society members have prohibited Neil Armstrong from attending their symposium on the grounds that there is NO WAY he could have orbited a "flat" Earth. News outlets worldwide have applauded the decision.