UPDATE: Big chill
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
07/02/09 12:05 AM EDT
Last Friday, the House passed onerous cap-and-trade legislation to halt man-made global warming which a majority of House members apparently still believe will devastate the planet.
The very next day, the London Telegraph reported that Canadian polar bear expert Dr. Mitchell Taylor was barred from a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialty Group in Copenhagen because his views on global warming are "extremely unhelpful."
The real reason Dr. Taylor was told to stay home was 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".
Dr. Taylor also says polar bears are actually doing just fine and, contrary to Al Gore, are not on the verge of extinction. But what does he know? He's only studied the critters for 30 years. It's not like he won a Nobel Prize or anything.
"Meanwhile, the average temperature [of the Arctic] at midsummer is still below zero," the Telegraph reports, "the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping."
Brrrrrrr.
Here's the link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html
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