White Noise Insanity

Gee, I wonder why the Bush Regime is having a change of heart by putting the polar bears on this list? You'd think with all the environmental policies they've rolled back over the years in favor of their corporate whore friends and their insistent debunking of global warming not existing, because their 'scientists' say it doesn't exist, that they would NOT want to ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that polar bears are FREAKING DROWNING and are an endangered species at this point. Yeah, yeah, you'd think they would rather issue a report that says polar bears are thriving during 'this natural warming of our planet'. Nope, the drowning and starving of polar bears is significant and the Bush Regime is being forced now, in my opinion, to accept their part in all of this.

"Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the incoming head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the polar bear's plight reflects the health of the planet.

"Global warming is melting polar ice at an alarming rate and we are now beginning to realize the consequences of this," she said. "This news serves as a wake-up call to the U.S. Congress and the administration that we must quickly begin to address global warming through legislative action."

Environmentalists hope that invoking the Endangered Species Act protections eventually might provide impetus for the government to cut back on its emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases blamed for warming the atmosphere.

The proposed listing also marks a potentially significant departure for the administration from its cautious rhetoric about the effects of global warming. Kempthorne cited the thinning sea ice brought about by global warming as the main culprit, although he said his department wasn't required by the endangered species law to study climate change.

President Bush's steadfast refusal to go along with United Nations-brokered mandatory controls on carbon dioxide, the chief global warming gas, has contributed to tensions between the United States and other nations."

I'm glad to see the polar bears getting the respect they deserve, but is it too late? This is really the question here. I believe that our planet does go through natural periods of warming and cooling, but what has happened in the last decade (and especially in the last 6 years!) is something that is happening too fast. There is a catalyst behind the scenes and I believe it's the rolling back of the environmental policies for the past 6 years that has really "lit the fire" under the icebergs. The ice is melting too fast for the polar bears to catch up. That is not a good sign. The polar bears starving and drowning at alarming rates and it is an indication that change is needed in Bush's policies, because these policies are effecting the planet.