Wanted: A Few Flat-Earth Scientists To Support Alaskan Oil Drilling

[babylonsister]

Wanted: A Few Flat-Earth Scientists To Support Alaskan Oil Drilling
by Tom Kizzia

The state Legislature is looking to hire a few good polar bear scientists. The conclusions have already been agreed upon — researchers just have to fill in the science part.


A $2 million program funded with little debate by the Legislature last month calls for using state money to fund an “academic based” conference that highlights contrarian scientific research on global warming. Legislators hope to undermine the public perception of a widespread consensus among polar bear researchers that warming global temperatures and melting Arctic ice threaten the polar bears’ survival.

Republican legislative leaders say a federal decision to declare the polar bears “threatened” by climate change would have troubling effects on Arctic oil development and the state’s economic future.

Last week a federal judge ordered the Bush administration to release its already-tardy decision under the Endangered Species Act by May 15. By law, such a decision must be based strictly on science, not on possible economic consequences.

Legislative leaders said they are frustrated that researchers skeptical of the doomsday scenario get marginalized as crackpots or industry shills by the media and scientific agencies.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/05/8731/

[hunter]

1. We could feed them to the hungry polar bears.

I've heard that crackpots and industry shills taste like seal...

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