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Corruption of Bribery

Chapter 6 : Corruption in the “Carbon World”

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr when referring to polar bears said:

“Their habitat is melting, beautiful animals, literally being forced off the planet. They are in trouble, got
nowhere else to go”

A global study led by Cynthia Rosenzweig, Head of the Climates Impacts Group, of NASA's Goddard Institute for
Space Studies (and thus an associate of James Hansen see page xx), released in May 2008 suggests that climate
change resulted in cannibalism and declining populations among polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea.

However, a local Inuit leader dismissed the idea of any link between cannibalism and climate change. Jose
Kusugak, the president of the Kivalliq Inuit Association, told reporters: “A male polar bear eating a cub becomes a
big story and they try to marry it with climate change and so on. It becomes absurd — when it’s a normal, normal
occurrence.”

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr’s photographs of polar bears, standing looking lost on a sliver of ice, were taken by an
Australian marine biology student named Amanda Byrd, in midsummer when every year the fringes of the Arctic
ice cap melt regardless.

Dennis Simard of Environment Canada said “you have to keep in mind that the bears are not in danger at all. This
is a perfect picture for climate change... you have the impression that they are in the middle of the ocean and are
about to die. But they were not that far from the coast, and it was possible for them to swim. They are still alive
and having fun".

The Canadian, Dr. Mitchell Taylor is recognised as a leading expert, both as an academic and government
employee, on polar bears. He has proven that almost all of the 19 polar bear communities are increasing and
numbers are currently much higher than they were 30 years ago. Although he agrees that temperatures in the
Arctic have risen, he ascribes this to the effects of warm water from the Pacific and winds from the Bering Sea.

In December 2009, Dr. Taylor had been approved to attend the Polar Bear Specialist Group meeting in
Copenhagen which was to take place in parallel with the massive global warming meeting. But his plans were
shattered by an e‐mail from Dr. Andy Derocher, one of his former pupils, saying that he would not be welcome
because of "the positions you are taking on global warming, that run counter to human induced climate change,
are extremely unhelpful".

This “extremely unhelpful” comment is an example of the “closed shop” nature of the
community of believers and the need for every increasing “scary” stories (see page xx)

4 A QUICK GUIDE TO MITIGATION AND ABATEMENT

4.1 Mitigation and Adaptation
The idea is that by cutting back greenhouse gas emissions, concentrations will stabilise or reduce,
thereby ensuring that temperature rises can be contained. Thus, remedial measures consist of:

 Mitigation, meaning intervention to contain concentrations mainly by reducing the
consumption of fossil fuels or to enhance greenhouse gas absorption (sinks) by better
management of land and forests

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