Protecting Not Polar Bears But Warmist Power

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In a move climate realists have dreaded for months, the polar bear was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act yesterday. Despite their sharply increasing numbers. Ursus maritimus now distinguishes itself as the first creature ever afforded special protections based on a theory... of possible... future... harm.

Bureaucratic actions this preposterous invariably mask ulterior motives, and this little doozy is certainly no exception.

Under what is perhaps the nation's strictest environmental law, the bear's critical habitat must now be protected and a strategy formulated to assist its population's 'recovery' [? there were 5000 polar bears in 1972 - today there's >25,000 - how do you 'recover' from that?]. [snip]

... the groups that demanded the ESA listing are mostly the same that are pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency to declare CO2 a pollutant [that would be our breath] under the Clean Air Act. They already have the lawsuits of 17 states and Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works chair Barbara Boxer behind their ridiculous demands.

Should they prevail, the EPA would, indeed, be in control of airborne carbon. And beyond inevitably materializing the green dream of cap-and-trade by regulatory decree, it would - in confluence with yesterday's dreadful decision -- empower unelected bureaucrats to levy huge ESA violation penalties against "polluters."

And that's just for starters... [i.e., they're not just talking about companies...]

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