Bald-Faced Liars

And it's not even Tony Perkins.

On Friday, Fox broadcast a segment where President of the Pacific Legal Foundation Rob Rivett claimed polar bears’ only ‘threatened’ status is that they are a ‘threat’” to the fossil fuel industry:

RIVETT: The polar bears are thriving as you said. In fact 50 years ago there were only 5,000 to 10,000 of this species. Today there are 25,000. Of the 17 populations, 14 of those populations are maintaining population or increasing their populations. So there’s no question that the bear is thriving.

The real concern for us at the Pacific Legal Foundation is these bears were listed based upon simply speculation. Let me tell you how this happened. In essence through computer modelling, the federal government determined that this species would be losing its sea ice habitat and because of the loss of sea ice habitat, they felt it was necessary to put them on the threatened list.

He went on to claim that the bear’s status “is a real problem” because the fossil fuel industry will suffer. “[If] you’re going to to make that more expensive of through regulation, all the rest of us are going to be impacted by that and jobs are going to lost because of that,” Rivett said.

The real concern for the Pacific Legal Foundation -- another one of those right-wing "legal" groups that specializes in nuisance suits -- is that part of their funding come from Exxon-Mobil and the Koch Brothers.

In point of fact, eight of the known polar bear populations are in decline, and they are being forced to range farther afield because the polar ice is melting.

Here's one of those "thriving" polar bears. He starved to death.

CREDIT: Ashley Cooper/Global Warming Images