Hillary: Shut Lights, Hurt Chavez, Save Polar Bears

[CSPP Note:  There is almost an inverse correlation between alarmist statements and real science on global warming.  Someone should ask Mrs. Clinton, “If the polar bear is the 650-kilogram canary in the climate change coal mine, why are its numbers INCREASING?  The latest government survey of polar bears roaming the vast Arctic expanses of northern Quebec, Labrador and southern Baffin Island (alone) show the population of polar bears has jumped to 2,100 animals from around 800 in the mid-1980s. As recently as three years ago, a less official count placed the number at 1,400. And by the way, that famous photo was a mother bear and cub playing on an ice flow, not trapped.] 

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Another Hillary update from Niall Stanage:

    Hillary Clinton's campaign swing through Iowa brought her to a
    biotech company on the outskirts of Des Moines this morning - and
    brought Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez unexpectedly into her
    crosshairs.

    The first question she received after a speech to employees of the
    Pioneer Hi-Bred International facility in Johnston raised the issue
    of the Chavez government. The former first lady assailed the
    Venezuelan president for fomenting "anti-Americanism across Latin
    America" and returned, in unusually personal terms, to one of the
    themes of her speech - how energy independence could prevent the
    transfer of American dollars to anti-American regimes.

    "My late father was a child of the depression and he never left a
    room without turning out every light. Well, now I go around turning
    out the lights," she said.

    "If we said, 'Turn off that light because we don't want to send any
    more money to Chavez in Venezuela,' that would make a difference."

    Hillary returned to her 'turn out the lights' recommendation in her
    closing remarks. She said she would like to see President Bush
    encourage American children to save energy by explaining how
    excessive consumption impacts upon the global environment.

    "That polar bear trapped on the ice floe that you feel real sad
    about - well, turn off the lights," she said.

    The former First Lady largely kept her focus on the energy issue
    during her address to several hundred employees of the company, a
    DuPont subsidiary that develops and supplies hybrid seed corn. She
    compared the challenge of "moving towards energy security" to the
    battle waged against communism by her parents' generation in the
    years after World War Two.

    According to a company spokesman, Mrs. Clinton was the first
    presidential candidate to visit the facility during this election
    cycle. On previous occasions, Pioneer has played host to Al Gore and
    Newt Gingrich. The initial contact in arranging today's event came
    from the Clinton campaign, the spokesman added.

    Hillary insisted that energy innovation could be "the beginning of a
    revolution in our country" and noted that such a revolution "could
    be traced back to Iowa because you were ahead of the curve."