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The World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Lies
No doubt you’ve seen the ads.
The music is dramatic.
The scene is tragic.
The message emotional.
Polar Bears, holding on for dear life to bits of ice, their arctic habitat destroyed by Global Warming.
And the narration tells you of the tragic fate of the bears, all because of man and his selfish destruction of the earth.
And of course, the ad ends with a plea for funds to help the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) protect the bears and stop Global Warming.
Cute, fuzzy animals always do the trick........
Polar Bear Lies, by Tom DeWeese
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Polar Bear Truth below, by RadioZX
Climate sceptic conference wraps up - denies evidence
Mar 11 2009
by Rich Bowden -
A three-day conference of climate change sceptics at New York's conservative think tank the Heartland Institute has wrapped up with claims that the global warming theory is based on politics rather than sound political science.
Not surprisingly the 600-strong conference rejected claims that human-induced carbon emissions are responsible for a steady increase in global temperatures, preferring instead to blame solar activity and the Earth's natural cycle for progressive warming.
The conference, titled "Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis?"
was attended by a number of luminaries including Czech president and ardent free-market advocate Vaclav Klaus who told delegates the science behind global warming was nothing more than "alarmism".
"They [government leaders] probably do not want to reveal their true plans and ambitions to stop economic development and return mankind several centuries back," he said.
Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, said the idea of the conference was to provide a forum for scientists and sceptics to voice their claims.
"We think we have a great story to tell that more and more prominent scientists are coming out saying global warming is not a crisis, that the question of what causes it and how extensive it's going to be are wide open in the scientific community," Bast said.
"And that message is not effectively reaching enough people," he added. "So, by holding an event like this we hope that we can get the attention of more people and eventually have an effect on public policy."
However environmental group, the Natural Resource Defense Council, said the claim was a misrepresentation of mainstream climate science's findings.
"[The sceptics] want this to be covered in the press as though there’s some fight within the scientific community," said David Hawkins, the Council’s director.
"What they’re trying to do is introduce doubt."
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Scientists: Sea-level rise worse than thought
Mar 11 2009
Climate scientists meeting in Copenhagen Tuesday warned that sea levels could rise to almost three times that of the official worst-case estimates, threatening hundreds of millions of people.
The landmark 2007 report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that sea levels would rise 18 to 59 centimeters – about 7 to 23 inches – by the end of the century. That would be enough to submerge several small island nations, and would inundate low-lying and densely populated deltas in Africa, East Asia, and on the Indian subcontinent.
But researchers gathered at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change now say that those estimates are too conservative, that a rise of less than 50 centimeters is unlikely, and that sea levels are likely to rise about one meter.
The UN panel deliberately excluded from its calculations the loss of ice from the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets. More recent climate models are better able to predict how ice sheets react to warming and how they interact with oceans.
Agence France-Press quotes German climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf, who says that the new model predicts “a range of sea level rise by 2100 between 75 and 190 centimetres when we apply the IPCC’s temperature scenarios for the future.”
A press release from the climate congress quotes Konrad Steffen, an Arctic climatologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder: “The ice loss in Greenland has accelerated over the last decade. The upper range of sea level rise by 2100 might be above 1m or more on a global average, with large regional differences depending where the source of ice loss occurs,” he said.
In addition to melting polar regions, sea-level rise is also caused by thermal expansion – the tendency of water to increase in volume when it is heated. Australian climate scientist John Church, the lead speaker at the meeting’s sea-level conference, observed that sea levels have risen at about three millimeters a year since 1993, a rate that he called “well above the 20th century average.”
Some 600 million people – about one in 10 humans – live in low-lying areas in danger of being flooded under this scenario
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