Seeming out of whack with Republican ideology, the Bush Administration’s Department of the Interior declared the first animal endangered due to Climate Change. I am sure the last holdouts still pounding the drum that global warming is a Marxist conspiracy by liberals to destroy America, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, are rolling in their graves. Oops, my recent optimism carried me away.
Delving further into the issue one finds it is not the canard first seemed to be. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, in direct conflict with the Endangered Species Act has added riders exempting oil companies from drilling in polar bear habitat. He also angrily made it known that this would not cause any energy companies to have to clean up their air in Alaska or anywhere else.
Making it even easier to understand just how out of touch Bush Appointments are, Dale Hall, director of Department of Fish and Wildlife said:
"The law was intended to preserve species and their habitats from localized threats such as filling wetlands, felling trees and development. He cast doubt on whether far-flung conditions, such as emissions from tailpipes, feedlots and smokestacks around the globe, could be directly linked to the shrinking sea ice." LA Times reporter Ken Weiss.
"We have to connect the dots between an action and an impact on a species, We don’t have the science to do that." Dale Hall
So damn if I don’t have to apologize to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The Director of Department of Fish and Wildlife also is a clueless moron too! Polar bear is added to the endangered species list