Recipe environmentalists cook up to
take control of your land and water

The following "Boulder Bunny imperiled by Global Warming, " is the standard recipe environmentalists (a.k.a. “eco-fascists”) cook up to take control of your land and water and shut you down.
They have bastardized the Endangered Species Act beyond recognition, and use Al Gore’s global warming scam to perpetuate their land and water grabs.
Fact: They are not attempting to save any species. Instead they smartly use the emotional tug saving a critter has on people, to work their ruse of stealing control over your private property.
These eco-fascists should be individually identified, publically exposed, and held accountable for all their damaging lies and actions.
The question remains, “how do we do this, when they’ve completely infiltrated your government, get money from your government and make policy with your government?”
Within this past week, I have heard from a myriad of former “honest” government employees, who are sickened by the knowledge of pay offs, back room deals and government bribery that spans from such as forced National Animal Identification, Pinon Canyon, FOIA abuse, Wolves, super highways, and the list marches on.
Some of these former government employees took a stand against politics and for sound science. For doing so, their work environment was made a living hell...forcing them to resign.
People within the Bush administration, whether left overs from Clinton, or newbies, have sold out domestic resource production.
Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma seems to stand alone, in seeing through the global warming lie, and recognizing how critical it is for America to be resource independent.
Seriously folks, if these people are allowed to continue their lies, very soon they will have control of all land and water in the world.
They are the neighbors from hell. Ask yourself, is this what you want?

GNL Editor Roni Bell Sylvester

For Immediate Release, August 19, 2008
Contact:
Greg Loarie, Earthjustice, (510) 550-6725
Shaye Wolf, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 632-5301, cell (415) 385-5746
Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Biology, Duke University, (919) 613-8141, cell (646) 489-5481

Alpine 'Boulder Bunny' Imperiled by Global Warming
State and Federal Lawsuits Filed to Protect American Pika

SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups filed two lawsuits today seeking protection of the American pika, whose survival is imperiled by global warming. The groups went to state court seeking protection of the pika under the California Endangered Species Act and to a federal court seeking protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.

American pika (National Park Service)

The American pika, Ochotona princeps, is a small relative of the rabbit whose squeaky calls are a familiar companion to alpine hikers. Pikas live in the boulder fields near mountain peaks in the western United States. Adapted to cold alpine conditions, pikas are intolerant of high temperatures and can die from overheating when exposed to temperatures as low as 80°F for just a few hours.

“The pika is the American West’s canary in the coal mine,” said Shaye Wolf, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity. “As temperatures rise, pika populations at lower elevations are being driven to extinction, pushing pikas further upslope until they have nowhere left to go.”

Rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas pollution have already led to dramatic losses of lower-elevation pika populations. More than a third of documented pika populations in the Great Basin mountains of Nevada and Oregon have gone extinct in the past century as temperatures warm, and those that remain are found an average of 900 feet further upslope. According to climate experts, temperatures in the western United States in this century will increase at least twice as much as they did in the past century. This could eliminate the pika from large regions of the American West.

"Climate change is likely to drive a third of the world's species to extinction. Worse, it’s the species living on mountaintops, which until now have been free from human impact, that will be hardest hit,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University. “The American pika is an obvious example of such a species at considerable risk from climate change," said Pimm, who has spent decades studying the global loss of biological diversity.

In April 2008, the California Fish and Game Commission denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity to protect the pika under the California Endangered Species Act. A Fish and Game report issued earlier this year stated that “mitigating greenhouse gas pollution” and “facilitating adaptation to climate change” are “not in the purview of the Commission or Department to effect,” despite numerous state laws and policies that require the agencies to consider and respond to climate change.

One of the two cases filed today by Earthjustice on behalf of the Center challenges the California Fish and Game Commission's denial of the pika petition.

“The California Fish and Game Commission’s attempt to bury its head in the sand rather than deal with the impact of global warming on wildlife is an embarrassment to our state, which is a leader in climate policy,” said Greg Loarie, an attorney with Earthjustice, which is representing the Center in the lawsuits. “The Commission is not allowed to abdicate its duty to protect California’s plants, animals, and wild habitats, and neither is the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service.”

The second case challenges the Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to make a timely initial finding on a separate petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity in October 2007 to protect the American pika under the federal Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service has not taken any action on this petition even though it was required to issue an initial determination within 90 days of receiving the petition.

Pika Facts:

* Pikas live in boulder fields surrounded by meadows on mountain peaks. They avoid the summer heat by seeking the cool crevices under the boulders and by remaining inactive during warm periods.
* Despite the long, cold, snowy winters at high elevations, pikas do not hibernate.
* Pikas spend summers diligently gathering flowers and grasses and store them in “haypiles” for food to sustain them through the long winters.
* These “boulder bunnies,” which weigh only a third of a pound, must collect more than 60 pounds of vegetation to survive the winter.
* Global warming threatens pikas by shortening the time available for them to gather food, changing the types of plants that grow where they live, reducing the insulating snowpack during winter, and, most directly, causing the animals to die from overheating.

Further information on the pika visit: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/American_pika/index.html
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/american-pika-08-19-2008.html

Roni:
Good article.
However, the Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho, has assured everyone that he will not let the ESA be used as leverage to facilitate global warming restrictions to save endangered species. His announcement of May 14, 2008, reads as follows:
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The listing is based on the best available science, which shows that loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat. This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species.
In making the announcement, Kempthorne said, “I am also announcing that this listing decision will be accompanied by administrative guidance and a rule that defines the scope of impact my decision will have, in order to protect the polar bear while limiting the unintended harm to the society and economy of the United States.”
Kempthorne further stated, “While the legal standards under the ESA compel me to list the polar bear as threatened, I want to make clear that this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice from melting. Any real solution requires action by all major economies for it to be effective. That is why I am taking administrative and regulatory action to make certain the ESA isn’t abused to make global warming policies.”
We will see if Kempthorne lives up to his promise. I'm not holding my breath because some idiot federal judge could still mandate it by a radical interpretation of the law.
It's truly insanity out there.
Take care,
Ron Ewart, President
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