ECO-NUTSIES TELL HYSTERICAL LIES ABOUT POLAR BEARS

DEBRA SAUNDERS:

Boxer and Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that Boxer chairs, have been engaging in a running debate on global warming.

Last month, Inhofe took on the Al Gore suggestion that polar bears are in peril because of global warming.

Inhofe pointed to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services estimates that show the polar bear population at about 20,000 to 25,000 bears - up from the estimated 5,000 to 10,000 polar bears in the 1950s and 1960s.

Boxer rejected Inhofe's claim that there are more polar bears, selectively citing the "best-studied population" of Canada's western Hudson Bay that found a 22 percent reduction of polar bears from 1987 to 2004. Then she referred to a World Conservation Union prediction that the polar bear population will drop by 30 percent by 2050. Global warming is supposed to be about science, yet projections now stand as fact.

Bjorn Lomborg addressed the polar bear scare in his book, "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming." Of the 13 polar bear populations in Canada, the populations of 11 are stable or growing. The biggest cause of polar-bear deaths: hunters, who shoot an average of 49 polar bears in western Hudson Bay yearly.

By the way, Lomborg, a Danish professor of statistics, believes "global warming is real and man-made."

I note this because, to the global-warming crowd, it is more important that you believe in global warming than that you curb your emissions. Which doesn't make a lot of sense. If you believe their doomsday predictions, you would think they'd care more about results.

Instead, the true believers laud Our Betters in Europe for signing the 1997 Kyoto global warming pact, while ignoring the fact that only two Western European countries (Sweden and the United Kingdom) are on track to meet their Kyoto goals. They laud former President Bill Clinton because he said he supported Kyoto and they bash President Bush because he rejected it. They don't care that Clinton never asked the Senate to ratify the treaty. Or that under Clinton, greenhouse gas emissions rose, contrary to the Kyoto goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

• AGW IS BS.

• CO2 IS NON-TOXIC.

• CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL.

THE LEFT HAS MADE STOPPING CLIMATE CHANGE THE CENTER OF THEIR PLATFORM, AND THEY PROMOTE THE IDEA THAT AGW CAUSED BY CO2 IS THE BIGGEST THREAT FACING HUMANITY (AND NOT WW4) MERELY TO TRY TO PASS THEIR LONGHELD POLICIES: RAISE TAXES AND INCREASE REGULATIONS.

DON'T FALL FOR IT.