FWS Director must have received a call from the VP's Office today.

Sen. Barbara Boxer should stop dragging her feel and live up to her responsibility to protect the California taxpayers before she takes on the Polar Bears.

Barbara Boxer is like the woman who isn't there. She has done nothing for California, has never introduced a single piece of legislation of importance, and isn't even an empty pants suit like Hillary. She's just an empty air bag who is the product of unbelievably weak opposition in elections. Next year is Arnold Time!

Sen. Barbara Boxer should stop dragging her feel and live up to her responsibility to protect the California taxpayers before she takes on the Polar Bears.

Posted by: Donald | January 7, 2008 8:20 PM

So your saying f%ck the polar bears??? I don't follow your logic. p.s. Bush sucks.

Millions of illegals destroying the California economy and Boxer is worried about Polar Bears....yep, those lib dems really know how to prioritize.

Paulo

Millions of illegals destroying the California economy and Boxer is worried about Polar Bears....yep, those lib dems really know how to prioritize.

Paulo

Posted by: Paulo | January 7, 2008 11:08 PM

One jerk of named Paulo polluting The Swamp. Maybe she should make cleaning you up a priority.

But hey, that Bush administration sure has the environmental issue at the top of it's list. Screw Kyoto, right crazy Paulo. Repeat after me, PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!

Barbara Boxer is stuck on stupid. She doesn't worry about illegals tearing up California but, she is an Al Gore nut case worrying about global warming. The Polar Bears will do just fine.They don't need Babs to save them. Barb is an in your face lib.

The idea that this earth can be destroyed by humans is strictly Gore religion there is no basis in truth.
It amazes me how the driveby media enshrine nutcases like this because she is part of their enviro wacko mantra to rid America of capitalism. The environment is an excuse to raise taxes as part of socialism.
That's all the carbon offsets are taxes,taxes, taxes.
Wakeup America we are being ruined in the name of green living. Baloney!
Jerry White, Springfield, IL

"Paulo"...Let's see, Paulo thinks we should judge folks based on their name. I think "Paulo" sounds like a name that an illegal alien would have.

Paulo, when are you going to self-deport? When are you going to stop "destroying" this country?

The idea that this earth can be destroyed by humans is strictly Gore religion there is no basis in truth.

Posted by: Jerry White | January 8, 2008 9:00 AM

So you're saying lakes, rivers and streams cannot be polluted if you dump man made carcinogens into them? Man you're dumb.

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007.
http://tinyurl.com/2dv6nz

Perhaps Babs Boxer and the Loony Brainwashed Left should read this:

Year of global cooling

December 19, 2007

By David Deming - Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.

Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn't increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.

South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades. In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. Dozens of homeless people died from exposure. In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency.

Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007. Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Australia experienced the coldest June ever. In northeastern Australia, the city of Townsville underwent the longest period of continuously cold weather since 1941. In New Zealand, the weather turned so cold that vineyards were endangered.

Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze. Thousands of agricultural employees were thrown out of work. At the supermarket, citrus prices soared. In the wake of the freeze, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for affected counties. A few months earlier, Mr. Schwarzenegger had enthusiastically signed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a law designed to cool the climate. California Sen. Barbara Boxer continues to push for similar legislation in the U.S. Senate.

In April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina's peach crop, and 90 percent of North Carolina's apple harvest. At Charlotte, N.C., a record low temperature of 21 degrees Fahrenheit on April 8 was the coldest ever recorded for April, breaking a record set in 1923. On June 8, Denver recorded a new low of 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Denver's temperature records extend back to 1872.

Recent weeks have seen the return of unusually cold conditions to the Northern Hemisphere. On Dec. 7, St. Cloud, Minn., set a new record low of minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit. On the same date, record low temperatures were also recorded in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Extreme cold weather is occurring worldwide. On Dec. 4, in Seoul, Korea, the temperature was a record minus 5 degrees Celsius. Nov. 24, in Meacham, Ore., the minimum temperature was 12 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the previous record low set in 1952. The Canadian government warns that this winter is likely to be the coldest in 15 years.

Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri are just emerging from a destructive ice storm that left at least 36 people dead and a million without electric power. People worldwide are being reminded of what used to be common sense: Cold temperatures are inimical to human welfare and warm weather is beneficial. Left in the dark and cold, Oklahomans rushed out to buy electric generators powered by gasoline, not solar cells. No one seemed particularly concerned about the welfare of polar bears, penguins or walruses. Fossil fuels don't seem so awful when you're in the cold and dark.

If you think any of the preceding facts can falsify global warming, you're hopelessly naive. Nothing creates cognitive dissonance in the mind of a true believer. In 2005, a Canadian Greenpeace representative explained “global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.” In other words, all weather variations are evidence for global warming. I can't make this stuff up.

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

David Deming is a geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis, and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.

"Paulo"...Let's see, Paulo thinks we should judge folks based on their name. I think "Paulo" sounds like a name that an illegal alien would have.

Paulo, when are you going to self-deport? When are you going to stop "destroying" this country?

Posted by: JT | January 8, 2008 9:39 AM

Now, now, JT. Paulo is really Paula, but doesn't want her friends to know that she is such an idiot.

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo...

Posted by: John D | January 8, 2008 12:43 PM

John Dummy has been listening to Rush for too long.

Little Johnny D,
I think you may have copy and pasted an error. In the article it says the mean temp since the mid 19th Century has increased 0.7 degrees Celsius, a "slight warming". First it struck me as odd that an American professer would use Celsius in this instance and all other instances in the article he used degrees Fahrenheit. I'm sure you are aware that 0.7 Celsius is in fact 33.26 degrees Fahrenheit. Thats a big and an alarming increase to occur in just over 150 years. Can you shed some light on this little Johnny journalist?

Please right wing deniars. Get together and get your talking points straight. Half of you now say there is evidence of global climate change but it is not caused by humans and half of you, John D included in this group today, say that global climate change is not occurring despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

So what if they're polar bears? Do you idiots think that humans deserve to be protected and pampered while the innocent suffer? We, humans, are the ones who can actually do something about it, but instead we do nothing. Our children's children are going to have a world that is barren of beauty, life, and maybe even polar bears. The bland and struggling world that future generations will have to endure is our fault. What is more important than "saving polar bears" is to wake up and realize that it isn't just polar bears or the Arctic that is affected by global warming. The entire world and its population is at risk, so whatever little act to address global warming is being taken, it is a step closer to action worldwide and a step farther from idiocy and hypocrisy. We can't ignore what's inf front of our noses forever.

65 degrees, tornado's, birds feasting on worms coming-up from the ground. Sounds like April in Chicago? Or is it just my looney-left view of what the weather is like in January right now?

On top of that, for those in Springfield who may not know what the Great Lakes are, Lake Michigan may reach its lowest level in recorded history in the next few months.

Who can make this stuff up?

But for conservatives, they can't tell the difference between science & their headsupyouknowwhere.

They'll laugh at the hybrid drivers while they fill-up their Hummalades at Citgo.

Dumb Dumb Janet, you really are an ignorant piece of trash, aren't you? Sorry, DEAR, but .7 C comes to about 1.25 degrees F. O C is the equivalent of 32 F. Hence, 33.25 F is the equivalent of .7 C. That .7 C increase the professor spoke of comes to a 1.25 F increase, not a 33.25 degree difference. Not even Al Bore has said the planet has warmed 33.25 F in the past 100 years! Janet, dear, go back to Pre-school where you need to be. Sorry, little girl, but you truly are dumber than dirt.

Global warming, or at least man-made global warming, is NOT universally accepted science among scientists. In fact, a Russian scientist says the planet has NOT warmed in the past 10 years, that levels have remained the same.

Also, Janet dear and the rest of the Loons, do you folks realize that at one time Chicago was buried under a mile of glacier. Glaciers formed the Great Lakes, Wisconsin Dells, and they extended all the way down to the Ohio River? Hmmmm, those glaciers have been receeding for hundreds of thousands of years, now haven't they?

Roman B, so the fact that we enjoyed a couple of days in the 60s in January means there is global warming, huh? Well, what about the zero degree weather we had the beginning of December, which was about 20 degrees BELOW normal? What about the below zero weather we had last week, which was about 15 to 20 degrees BELOW normal? What about the fact that this weekend will get back to January norms? Or how about in 1967 when one day Chicago hit 67 degrees and two days later saw 29 inches of snow fall? Or how about the 40 degree weather the middle of last May when I froze my ass off watching a White Sox game? Or how about the record-setting cold last February?

Little Johnny D,
Could this be a glaciers which formed after the Cretaceous-Tertiary Event which was accompanied by large and violent volcanic activity and ended with a large meteor crashing in the Gulf of Mexico spreading iridium around the Earth and the combined events caused the sun to be blocked out over large portions of the globe causing mass extinction and dramatically cooling the planet? Is this what you are talking about? Maybe they receeded because the decaying matter gave off methane and CO2 which are heat trapping gases. Sorry to bring facts and perspective to the equation.

In fact, a Russian scientist says the planet has NOT warmed in the past 10 years, that levels have remained the same.

Posted by: John D | January 8, 2008 3:43 PM

Hmm Johnny that sounds like an opinion not a fact. Maybe this "Russian" scientist has proof that the temps are the same? Have his findings been peer reviewed?

PS What a surprise, you make insulting and derogatory comments to a woman. What did mommy do to you?

"Dumb Dumb Janet, you really are an ignorant piece of trash, aren't you?"

Posted by: John D | January 8, 2008 3:43 PM

What a rotten comment John.

A shinning example of why your such a brain-dead loser. I guess the reality of a democrat as our next president is making you more cranky than usual. Repeat after me, PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!

Obama 2008

Hmmmm, those glaciers have been receeding for hundreds of thousands of years, now haven't they?

Posted by: John D | January 8, 2008 3:43 PM

Heck No!

The earth is only 6,000 years old. That's what the bible says and that's enough for me. That's going to be part of the Republican party platform if I'm the nominee!

Or how about the 40 degree weather the middle of last May when I froze my ass off watching a White Sox game? Or how about the record-setting cold last February?

Posted by: John D | January 8, 2008 4:41 PM

The world is flat also, right John D. The fact that you sat in the cold to watch the White Sox speaks volumes about your intelligence. They don't call it the cell for nothing. Did they provide you with a straight jacket?

Is it any wonder that John D uses yet another quack to try and debunk man-made global warming?

Yes, David Deming is a Geophysicist. He also has ties to the petroleum industry and is a faculty member on two conservative think tanks. Even more ironic, he's a mysogonistic a$$h@!$. No wonder he's John D's hero:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deming

John D,

One more thing:

0.0 C = 32 F

0.7 C = 33.26 F

Didn't you learn anything in HVAC school?

Posted by: janet | January 8, 2008 5:06 PM

NEVER mention the Gulf of Mexico to Geographically Challenged Dumb Dumb Little Johnnie Dyslin, "the Joseph Stalin of Streamwood" - he still thinks that the island of Cuba is TOTALLY INSIDE the Gulf of Mexico instead of its REAL location: totally INSIDE the Caribbean Sea!

Oh BC, first of I never said Cubs was totally inside the Gulf. Show me the proof. Second, Idiot-for-Life, Cuba IS NOT totally within the Caribbean. Its southern coast lines the northern shores of the Caribbean and Cuba's northern coast lines the southern shores of the Atlantic and the Gulf.

Bubba, I think in my post I say 0 C is 32 F and .7 C is 33.25. Dumb Dumb Janet was saying that Deming's comment the planet has warmed by .7 C equates to a 33.26 F warming in the past 150 years. So, if you Perpetual Dumbf*s think the planet has warmed by 33 degrees F in the past 150 years, then you morons are even dumber than I ever imagined.