A “Bear”able view

Another “true believer” has bitten the dust. Miklós Zágoni, one of the foremost exponents of global warming alarmism and a former high apostle of that infamous religion has crunched some numbers and decided to take an exact opposite position. His new found apostasy stems from false conclusions drawn about the extent of the height and affects in the earth’s atmosphere.

Apparently, erroneous findings were developed by relying upon the mistaken notions of Arthur Milne in 1922 as to boundary limitations in the upper atmosphere. He observed that scientific findings in more recent years—mainly achieved by Ferenc Miskolczi—have produced a far different result in computing those limits. It was this that led him to resign from NASA and rethink his entire outlook since they were reluctant to give up ninety-year-old science. His principal argument was with a team of scientists who refused to rely upon pure scientific method in reaching conclusions. It was the old “cart before the horse” thing. They wanted to draw conclusions and then do research to support them. Being old fashioned, he wanted to do the research first and then air the result.

He asserts—probably correctly—that their motivation is, and has been, money. Big surprise; funding for the program has reached $5,000,000,000.00 and it can no longer be defined as a cottage industry. I would imagine that a budget of that magnitude would encourage following the instructions of the leadership.

If you would care to follow along with the math used to achieve this diametric attitude, the following file (in pdf format, Adobe) covering his revised formulations is furnished. Get out your pencil and an old envelope and check him out . . . . .

Now that you have had a chance to verify for yourself what he asserts, I’m certain that you’ll agree. Now let’s turn to yet one more myth being offered by the hysterics of the Church of Global Warming.

At the center of this controversy is the polar bear. Let us first establish that the population of these critters was established in 1970 at 5,000. In 2007, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, working in concert with Canadian and Russian agencies, set the census of these bears in excess of 25,000 world wide. Even if you didn’t do the math in the illustration above, I’m sure you can recognize the 500% increase of the population in the thirty-eight year span. Given these numbers, one questions the decision of the USF&WS to declare them an endangered species. They themselves admit that the growth of the numbers is robust. In spite of recent reports of increase in the pack ice and seal population which is ideal for their sustenance, they accept the lunacy of the computer models and assert they are subject to the vagaries of increasing temperatures in the arctic regions. No acknowledgment is given to their superb adaptive characteristics and abilities to conform to that which is, and not to that which the scientific community considers ideal. Further, make no mistake in assessing the motives of the global warming hysterics and the environmental tree huggers. Their stated goals may vary but the driving force is the disruption of the capitalist economy.

Since I don’t hunt polar bears, the personal affect will be minimal. However, the indigenous peoples do, and consider them important for income, clothing and food. Sport hunters pay up to $25,000 for the chance to bag one and the locals encourage them to try. Being designated a protected species would bring that boon to an end.

You may recall I drove to the Arctic Ocean about two years ago to see for myself what the situation was in the oil patch at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. I especially wanted to observe the affects that the pipeline and drilling were having on the environment and the native game population. I saw little evidence of man’s footprint in that unbelievably vast expanse. The “enviro-nuts” were devastated by the Porcupine herd of Caribou, who much preferred the comforts surrounding the oil pipe line to life on the muskeg. Altogether there was wildlife in abundance including birds of every stripe. The greatest blessing on the trip was the absence of people. In the three hundred miles of the Dalton Highway (the only road in the US) north of the Arctic Circle, there are two gas stations and two motels. One drives the gravel road for dozens of miles without seeing other traffic. Don’t even ask about restrooms.

I read one very interesting quote in USA Today which said: “Over the possibly 200,000 years the polar bear has existed as a species. It survived ‘very harsh conditions’ of extreme cold, and warmth, such as the last interglacial period, 100,000 to 110,000 years ago.” That was Willie Soon, an astrophysicist with the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I did confirm that it is indeed an extremely harsh environment, not desirable for man but well equipped by God for the beasts.

Why then would the USF&WS be urged to designate this bear an endangered species? It is very simple. It would, for the first time, identify the main threat to a species as global warming. This lends credence to all the other programs and assertions. Otherwise this healthy species is in absolutely no peril whatsoever. Armed with this outrageous precedent, the faithful of the new religion could further their insidious designs into vast other areas. Use of the statutes is nothing new to inhibit or at least hinder growth and development but it has been largely local. Can you say snail darter and spotted owl? The implication of this use in this manner makes it an issue of international importance.

In His abiding love,

Cecil Moon