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Earth Day: The Loons and Out of Touch Preach

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Earth Day: The Loons and Out of Touch Emote Preach.

Preach is an accurate word. They preach fear so that they can control others in the many social "quasi" nature / science directions. Global warming and animal rights are the two biggest pushes by the environmentalists or green's.

In this effort, the environmentalists have coop'd the conservation ethic and so diluted the differences those that oppose the leftist and socially controlling, politically correct themes and actions find it hard to stand or act in a conversationalist manner without being labeled as the opposition.

There is a fine line in these efforts. As many acknowledge and lament, many environmental laws seek to stop progress or raise the barriers and cost so much many just give up. For the greater society, the hoops and checks of environmental compliance has swung to far to the left.

Conservation is best defined as wise use. Yes, we harvest the trees for all things trees are used for. But we do it in a manner that ensures the trees return to the landscape starting the process over. We farm the land, but in a manner that does not degrade the land or those things nature has placed upon them. We hunt and fish, but limit the take and protect and seek to enhance the lands and water that support the wildlife.


One group wants animals and trees to have rights as each of us enjoy. They seek to minimize mans place in the world. They seem to want man to become extinct giving animals and nature more value and relevance.

The other group subscribes to the theory that our resources are to be used and enjoyed by all with the equal responsibility to ensure we never return to the sins of our grandfathers and their fathers of stripping the land and poisoning the waters.

Rivers are not suppose to burn. Steams coming out of the mountains and springs is suppose to be pure. But, as Pennsylvanians we know this is not true. While our rivers are far cleaner than that of the late 60's. We still have the vestiges of the 18th and 19th century to contend with. Even aged forests, acid mine drainage, improperly disposed of waste (industrial and otherwise) - and more.

Yet it is the conservationists that takes theses problems and seeks to repair the damage and actually use them for profit and restoration. Removing high wall mines,spoil piles, and coal methane for market and remediation those areas with things to control acid mine drainage. We reclaim strip mines with plants that help control erosion that clogs our streams with sediment and harms our fish and aquatic animals. Conservationists do this and so much more.

More than anything else, conservationists do the work and pay the freight for most of the rest of society. In our backwards knuckle dragging manner we provide the money and the organizations that actual produce the results the others talk about. Conservationists, hunters and fishermen joined by other outdoors people make nature and natural places possible for the rest of society. We do this with taxes paid on the equipment we buy for our respective sports.


But more importantly, we provide nature to others with the physical labor as individuals and part of groups and organizations locally, statewide, and nationally. Conservationists are boots on the ground, shovels, picks, and heavy equipment with a healthy dose of chainsaw wielding nature loving wildlife home improvement experts.

In that - the lefty's can never touch us. But they do coop us, our title, our go stand on it preservation efforts, sweat and blood habitat / stream and restoration achievements. The other side looks at each of us as hunters, fishermen, and trappers as the problem. Add the foresters, farmers and anyone else that does not subscribe to their thinking and social controlling tactics as well.


So on this earth day - stand on your soap box and proudly state you are a hunter - a fisherman - a forester, farmer, or other person they hate and rejoice. You are the one actually making a physical difference. Those that oppose you just rile up others with talk, accept donations, and seek to foment more gloom and doom.


So while your on your soap box - be sure to mention they don't get down and dirty where it counts - we do.
 
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I've always felt that, to most hunters and anglers, that EVERY day is Earth Day. We participate and appreciate all that our earth offers more than most of the fakes who preach one day a year. I've joined in a couple Earth Day garbage cleanups in the past, but I've also filled two small garbage bags with litter so far this trout season with no news coverage whatsoever.
 
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Climate change according to Chicken Little</span>
Cal Thomas

...........A recent story in The New York Times sought to help alarmists raise the decibel level: “The countries of the world have dragged their feet so long on global warming that the situation is now critical, experts appointed by the United Nations reported Sunday, and only an intensive worldwide push over the next 15 years can stave off potentially disastrous climatic changes later in the century.”.....


The Obama administration and liberal politicians in general seem to promote climate change fiction in order to gain even more dominance over our lives. Apparently controlling one-sixth of the economy through Obamacare isn’t enough for them.

Most of the “reporting” on the subject is decidedly one-sided, including President Obama’s claim in his last State of the Union address that “The debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.” Science is never settled, or it wouldn’t be science. It is constantly testing, probing and searching for new information. That’s why science textbooks are regularly revised as new discoveries are made.

The Times story was about a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Berlin. To read it one might think there is unanimity of opinion on the subject by panel members. Maybe that’s true of current members of the panel, but it is instructive to read the comments by former IPCC member Richard Tol, who, among other things, is professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

Professor Tol, writes Globalwarming.org, recently “accused the IPCC of being too alarmist about global warming and asked to have his name withdrawn from its recently released Working Group II report (WG2) on climate change impacts.” In a recent article for the Financial Times titled “Bogus prophecies of doom will not fix the climate,” Tol explains why, “Humans are a tough and adaptable species. People live on the equator and in the Arctic, in the desert and in the rainforest. We survived the ice ages with primitive technologies. The idea that climate change poses an existential threat to humankind is laughable.”

German meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls goes further. <span style="font-weight: bold">He has written that contrary to the alarmists’ claims of melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels, the rise in sea levels has declined 34 percent over the last decade. His report, which analyzed satellite data from TOPEX and JASON-1 and JASON-2 missions studying global ocean topography, concluded that the sea level rise has “slowed down significantly,” and that “...it should not be speculated on whether the deceleration in the rise is a trend or if it is only noise. What is certain is that there is neither a ‘dramatic’ rise, nor an ‘acceleration’. Conclusion: Climate models that project an acceleration over the last 20 years are wrong.”</span>

There are plenty of ways to check Puls’ conclusions, including www.climatedepot.com, which provides links to the papers and work of climatologists and other scientists who take a decidedly different position from that of the climate change crowd. ...

<span style="font-weight: bold">The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer, writes, “If climate science is settled, why do its predictions keep changing?</span> .....

http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/...little/7980595/
 
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