It might be time for the global warming alarmists to find a new spokes-animal for their cause.  Through semantic manipulation, global warming alarmists have done an effective enough job at convincing us that these bears are poor helpless creatures that can’t defend themselves against our carbon emissions.  This kind of semantic manipulation is probably what causes events like what happened in a German zoo yesterday.  Apparently a woman decided to jump into the polar bear enclosure, and not surprisingly she was attacked by these poor defenseless animals.  The published story doesn’t say what her motive was, but it is not very hard to fill in the gaps.  This story has liberal, envirowacko written all over it, and I think Al Gore should be held personally responsible for this attack.  Of course this isn’t the first attack of its kind.  It is kind of unfortunate that polar bear populations naturally exist so far away from liberal population centers.  At least nathab.com is offering trips to go see polar bears in their natural habitats.  This would be a great way to find a polar bear to hug.  I think all liberals should go, before these poor animals are extinct.

I think that global warming alarmists are catching onto the dangers of having the polar bear be their lead cute and furry pathosmonger.  After all, they are showing themselves to be remarkably resilient to a fluctuations in climate.

Global warming alarmists have found other animals that they can exploit.  The latest choice is perhaps a far better choice than the polar bear: The American Pika.

Cute Little Guy

The reasons why the North American Pika would make a better spokescritter are many:

• They mostly inhabit states in the West who produce and burn a lot of coal.  Finding a victim that is closer to home in these states might help shift public attention away from economic self interest.
• They mostly live between 8,000 and 13,000 feet.  That is pretty high up in the mountains.  Since their habitat is out of sight/out of mind, we will have to believe whatever the “scientists” tell us about their populations.
• Scientists report that pikas can die within an hour if the outside temperature reaches above 23°C (75°F). According to wikipedia.
• They have a high tolerance for liberal hugging them.  If you jumped into their cage in the zoo, they probably wouldn’t try to kill you.

That third point is the kicker.  How any species ever evolved in the Intermountain West that could die within an hour if the temperature gets hotter than 75 degrees is beyond me.  An animal who seems to be so easy to drive to extinction is a far better choice for a spokesvarmint than polar bears.