Global Warming: Fact, or Fraud? and Stranded Polar Bears!

I'm concerned actually about all these polar bears, with nothing to stand on. I'm sure you've noticed. Daily, without fail, on television, photos, video clips, of desperate polar bears, who, because of global warming, the plague of the twenty-first century, are mere inches away from tumbling into the frozen ocean, the block of ice they had occupied, now shrinking, soon to nothing! Oh, the anguish! My grandchildren, 7 and 9 are bombarded daily with the polar bears' plight. My grandchildren are being implored to save the poor frightened beasts. My thought is that the bears would do well to move to the Arctic equivalent of higher ground... but what do I know? Global Warming...it it a fact, or a clever conspiracy on the part of a few, to extract more dollars from the weary taxpayer?

Til recently, naturalists have explained that the world changes, the environment changes. And with change, in this case, change in climate, the creatures and plants that occupy the world change. Old species die out, over time, with wonderful new species coming in to replace them. Ah, nature, a wonderful thing.

The dinosaurs I am told were the dominant inhabitants of our world for millions of years. The planet was a fine place for reptiles, insects, fish beyond comprehension. But, times change.

Man has dominated the earth for some 50,000 years. He wasn't even here to watch the glaciers pass through, those ice masses that formed our continents, and as it happens, the American mid-west. Now we have vast flatlands, perfect for growing wheat, and corn, and even soybeans, to feed the cattle, to feed the humans. The balance as philosophers have noted is an inspiration.

But today these same naturalists are telling us that we should immediately undertake to save the current species, maintain the current climate, and these naturalists are aiming their pleas at the young, which, dear reader, I must admit makes me very skeptical. This could get expensive! I'm still stricken by the expense of modern global expansion; now are we are to add to that the price of modern, perceived, global warming?