Thursday, February 07, 2008

What the Flocke? Are they knutz or something?

Those well meaning folks over at the World Wildlife Foundation are upset that the Canadian government is auctioning off the rights to oil and gas exploration on more than 2.9 million acres of continental shelf in the Beaufort Sea, north of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Perhaps I would feel a little more bitter about this if the spokes person was a little more educated on the topic. click From the CTV article...

"These are areas where polar bears and bowhead whales and beluga whales and who knows what else call home," Dr. Peter Ewins, WWF Canada's director, told CTV.ca on Thursday. "Clearly these areas are important, perhaps critical, habitat for the pressured polar bears."

"and who knows what else call home"????? I bet there are a bunch of people that know what else call that area home. Some of them might actually have ties to the WWF. And and and perhaps, well maybe, quite possibly they might also know about the polar bears habitat. They may even know that the polar bears are not "pressured". The polar bears population has been doubling every decade since the 1970's. We wouldn't want to mention that the disappearing habit has reappeared this winter with a vengeance. Why is it that he makes no mention of the real dangers? You know, like oil spills... Nope , gotta stick to the whole "global warming" mantra. These people are their own worst enemies. Just keep screaming FIRE in the packed stadium when in reality it is just a few people flicking their BIC's. When will they learn?

Take the GLOBAL WARMING TEST. It is only 10 simple questions, but something tells me that Al Gore, David Suzuki, Stephane Dion and the like would fail it big time. It requires common sense!

6 comments:

Lone Pony said...

That was a FANTASTIC test! I got 10/10, but I suppose I would after reading yours and ABF's blogs! :)

Tim said...

LP...
Being a science teacher would not have anything to do with that score? I certainly would hope so. Mind you some of what I read of what goes on in schools these days under the guise of education does make me scratch my head...

Candace said...

Well, I didn't pass 100% but I swear the first 2 were trick questions, dammit.

Tim said...

Candace...
Yes , yes they are... lol You fell into the trap of providing the answer that you "thought" they wanted didn't you...

ABFreedom said...

Great test.... aced it... it should be a requirement for anyone running for political office...

I went back through and selected a few wrong answers to see what would happen... the explanations are excellent...

Tim said...

AB...
Why am I not surprised... lol
I did the same, but forgot to mention that in my post. The links they have are also worth checking out...