Dec 13, 2016 | 7:55 AM Susan Stamper Brown is
an Alaskan resident and recovering political
pundit.
Global
warming activists won't be satisfied until the Earth freezes over and nothing
survives.
They
relentlessly use obnoxious pictures of polar bears floating on melting sea ice
to guilt people into believing we're to blame. They chose the wrong animal as
their "poster child." Polar bears aren't cuddly little snowballs who sip on
colas all day and use a hunting rifle to compassionately put their prey out of
misery when it's snack time. Instead, polar bears use ambush tactics and sharp
claws and teeth to feast on cute little seals they sometimes eat alive while
kicking and screaming. They also snack on whales activists claim they want to
save.
Watching
former Vice President Al Gore waddle his way around Trump Tower the other day
reminded me about how long this guilting's been going on. For decades now, we've
been told that computer models predict that a catastrophic ice-free Arctic Ocean
is around the bend.
In 2009,
Gore said some computer models
suggest "there is a 75 percent chance that the entire North Polar ice cap during
some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to
seven years."
Umm, didn't
happen.
It seems the
computer models were 75 percent incorrect. Maybe they were the same ones used to
predict Brexit and the 2016 presidential election. Whatever the case, we're told
it's "settled science." I thought scientists were skeptics who settled on the
idea that true science is never settled.
Sure, the
U.S. ended November on a warm note, but the crazy-cold minus 40 degrees weather
my state just sent south will surely make this month a December to remember.
You're welcome.
About now, a
little global warming sounds nice as I dream of white sandy beaches, not the
white Christmas outside my window.
Alarmists
practically lose their minds when it warms in Alaska like it did this summer,
but it wasn't bikini weather, considering in June, the Coast Guard had to rescue
some walrus hunters from their skiff stuck in sea ice. Thankfully, it warmed
enough to make the early June king salmon run one of the best runs in years,
which, in turn, helped the bears.
Researchers
say the two very cold and wet years of 2008 through 2010 messed up salmon runs
and berry season, causing a decline in Kodiak Brown bears. This year was better.
The Juneau Empire reports the bear cub population increased because warmer
temperatures gave bears the blessing of early and abundant salmon runs and berry
crops.
The warmth
helped our declining caribou population. Predation rates rise when caribou make
it to spring looking like a bag of bones because their food source is scarce.
Alarmists freak out over longer summers and shorter winters which give caribou
extra time for easier eating. Biologists say the caribou they examined this fall
looked fatter and healthier than previous years and calves were the heaviest
they've been in the eight years they've been weighing them, which gives them a
better chance of survival this winter, which is trending
colder.
Oh, about
those polar bears. An intriguing article, "The truth about polar bears," in
Canadian Geographic says there's been a "slow but steady increase" in the polar
bear population since the 1970s. It says some thriving polar bears "have
experienced ice-free summers for thousands of years" while others deal with
"pack ice so thick that it's often impossible" to hunt seals, so warming "could
potentially make hunting easier." In Davis Strait, where sea ice is "declining
dramatically," the polar bear population "is an eye-popping 233 percent bigger"
than 40 years ago.
So, what
gives?
What if man
has no control over what happens on the planet but the God who created it does?
I believe he's the one that causes occasional warming to help his animals
survive. Maybe it's time for alarmists to chill, stop guilting and trust God
more.
Read
more at
http://www.christianpost.com/news/global-warming-activists-need-to-chill-opinion-172069/#HC2wY0ff6gEyOcBL.99 
