Roy Spencer on the polar bears

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 2:38 PM

Regular listeners to Rush Limbaugh's program might recognize the name "Roy Spencer." The principal research scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville is Limbaugh's main source for climate change science.

In his latest piece on the polar bear controversy, Spencer concludes with some chilling thoughts:

Quite frankly, I don’t believe the activists who have succeeded in getting the polar bear listed under the ESA really believe that the polar bear is threatened. This was just one more tool that will enable a gaggle of lawyers to go after the real object of the environmentalists’ disdain: Big Oil.

And with three presidential candidates who all agree with the environmental activists, the coming months and years are looking pretty bleak for freedom, capitalism, and prosperity. Meanwhile, the polar bears will do just fine, just as they have during previous warm periods in history.

I only hope when global warming ends, and is accepted to be a largely natural phenomenon rather than manmade, that all of the regulatory mistakes we’ve made can somehow be undone.

When Spencer spoke for the John Locke Foundation in October 2006, he discussed the role of faith in the global warming debate.

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