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GLOBAL WARMING AND THE IVORY BILLED WOODPECKER
By Jim Foster

Today there are two environmental scams that have become quite clear. There are others but let’s comment on these two. First, is no such thing as global warming as we are being led to believe, and second, the ivory billed woodpecker is extinct, gone, kaput, so live with it.

Regarding the farce named “global warming” - I have read enough to know our big blue planet that is millions upon millions of years old has, since it was created, warmed and cooled and cooled and warmed, and so on and so on. To say man is the biggest cause is as stupid as saying that man caused the Rocky Mountains. Sure we have mistreated the planet, but global warming? Not even!

Sure, scientists with large grants have tried to prove global warming but so far they have only proved they are good at maintaining their grants and money sources.

But, you might ask, what about greenhouse gasses? Yes, they exist but most people don’t know the largest creator of the dreaded greenhouse gasses is a simple cow. Yes Virginia, cows. The fact is the bovine species worldwide produce more green house gases (passing wind) than all the cars driving the roads of the world. Fact!

My opinion of global warming can be described as the byproduct of grass and water when processed through a male bovine. That includes every word uttered by guy that flunked out of college then couldn’t get elected president– what’s his name? Oh yes, Al Gore.

You still need convincing? Take the Global Warming Test and see how you do. Just go to: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

The second eco-farce of the last couple of years is the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

Let’s look at the hard facts. 1. The original sighting were vague at best. 2. There was no hard evidence as in photos or close-up sighting. 3. Millions of dollars have been diverted from REAL conservation projects and still are. 4. The public and honest birdwatchers have all been had. 5. Even the Cornell people now say that the evidence is questionable and was in favor of reopening the Cache River Wildlife Management Area to regular people. 6. To me, and the worst of them all, is that the mainstream and the green press bought the farce hook line and sinker and gave it worldwide coverage that misled millions of people to believe the ivory-bill woodpecker had actual be rediscovered when in fact the bird is extinct.

Needless to say the chamber of commerce’s of the towns close to the “sighting area” are very unhappy and are seeing the millions of visitors they were hoping for diminish to a trickle. The tourist trap builders had already been at work. Including the sale of a woodpecker stamp and print. This one thing brings out the money portion of the farce. Proceeds are supposedly to be divided between The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, The Nature Conservancy and the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation. I wonder where the money will be used now? Will they give it back?

Just think how much this money could have done for an “alive” species.

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