I’m referring to Queensland’s ‘Cool it by Degrees’ campaign.
“Polar bears are among the most threatened species as a result of changes in our temperature and changes in our climate,” Ms Bligh told reporters.
“If we had every Queenslander change the temperature of their fridge by one degree, it would be the equivalent of taking 11,000 cars off the road.
Several assumptions here including: people keep their fridges below 4C, Polar Bears need saving, and climate change is driven by CO2.
Story from The Sydney Morning Herald:
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
In another polar bear thread , Bjorn Lomborg stated you can save about 500 PB’s if you ban PB hunting.
According to IceClass , most Inuit communities need the sports hunting from tourists to survive.
IceClass told me that I run short of proposals.
Now I saw that polar bear safaris in Churchill were very pricey.
The trip is pricey. Most packages – including airfare from Winnipeg, accommodations, meals and tours – start at about $1,000 per day, and run between two and five days.
The Inuit should get some profit from those tourists IMO.
Oversized off-road buses called tundra buggies are used to show off PBs.
http://www.mytelus.com/travel/article.do?pageID=home&articleID=2781699
I wonder if the Queensland Premier had read David Bellamy’s article in the Times.
This eco warrior and academic (arrested in Tasmania protesting against a hydro power scheme 25 years ago) said:
“Let’s turn to Al Gore’s doom-laden Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. First, what is the point of scaring the families of the world with tales that polar bears are heading for extinction? Last year Mitchell Taylor, of the US National Biological Service, stated that “of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.”
see Today’s forecast: yet another blast of hot air at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2709551.ece
I considered posting this the other day on the
hedgehog thread – because it’s cute.
Glad I held off.
http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=15699
See one of those tourist guys has his sled dogs staked out on a chain. A polar bear approachs. It is obvious that there will be no escape for the dogs. The bear reaches down and …
… proceeds to have 45 minutes of good quality playtime with the dogs.
Can a polar bear be a dog’s best friend?
Seems the answer is yes.
Fantastic pics James! Thanks for posting the link. I have not seen anything like this before.
Maybe the one time when I saw a cat and crow playing together.
Last week in Sweden , a brown bear killed a hunter and the bear hunting dog.
Frankly James, I have no clue how to interpret the PB and husky pics. This must have been a juvenile polar bear with respect to huskies methinks!
I would add, it’s probably a well fed polar bear. He sure seems to enjoy the dogs society. Lonely perhaps?
I would like to see a cat and crow play. Ann, did you take a picture?
Sorry, this time no picture James.
Just the kind of political leader Quuensland needs! Turning up fridges will do diddly squat for polar bears on the other side of the world.
But it might help with power usage in a state that cannot cope with peak loads – in summer, particularly.
The unseen consequences of this bright idea are not hard to see. Higher fridge temps = higher rate of food spoilage and better conditions for nasty bugs like salmonella, etc.
That is going to mean a greater load for an already critically overloaded medical service, for which Anna Bligh’s Government pays.
Anna Bligh is quoting a perceived benefit – saving polar bears, for goodness sake, slipping past the real State economic bernefit of the promotion (saving power), and appears to be completely clueless about the economic costs for which the State will pay. Yep. Far sighted leader.
For the inevitable medical victims of this bright idea, the road to hell will have indeed been paved with good intentions.
James, that polar bear is obviously suffering from heat stress and is hallucinating. He thinks he is playing with another polar bear!
Just another victim of climate change!
It looks to me as if Beattie organised to have Bligh to follow him, as premier, because he knew what a twit she would prove to be, once off the leash he held.
It was realy embarrassing to watch her & her lady mate, bumling & simpering through Indy, but this realy shows her thinking ability.
After a year of her, we are going to think that the Beattie catastrophes were not that bad, after all.