Real Climate Science

http://www.cnsnews.com/

h/t to Marc Morano

http://foreign.peacefmonline.com/news/201103/143705.php

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There seems to be a very fair. prospect that
the British naval expedition which recently
wintered in Smith’s Sound will succeed in
reaching the Pole during the present summer.
If it accomplishes this task, and returns to
England, there will no longer be any room
for discussion in regard to the ownership of
the Pole. England will promptly claim that
she has pre-empted the North Pole, and will
attach it as a province to the Dominion of
Canada.  It may not prove a very valuable
possession, but it will afford the English Cabi-
net an opportunity to appoint Mr Whalley, or
some equally oppressive statesman to a
governor-generalship, and to thus to get him
peaceably out of the country. We ourselves

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h/t to reader Ivan

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Too much cocaine in college?

The state (Alaska) is suing because the federal government’s designation will do nothing for the bears while costing the state and nation a great deal.

The Endangered Species Act specifically requires the government to balance the costs and benefits when it considers designating critical habitat for a species that has been listed as “threatened” or “endangered.” The federal government listed polar bears as threatened in 2008.

Designating critical habitat won’t change the only identified threat to the polar bear population — global warming. So the benefits of the designation are near zero. (The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s regulations state how to handle such situations: “A designation of critical habitat is not prudent when … such designation of critical habitat would not be beneficial to the species.” 50 CFR 424.12a)

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