The radical left in this country has made it their science to rely on bad science.  The latest example is so well documented that it’s pitiful as well as disgusting.

The left in Britain and the U.S. has been on a media supported campaign to ban plastic bags worldwide.  The left claims that 100,000 animals and a million seabirds are killed every year by plastic bags.  They also claim that plastic bags are environmentally unfriendly. On the last point, they should really ask the people who run landfills.

The people who run landfills will tell you that plastic bags take up far less space than paper bags.  Space is crucial to landfills, and plastic bags are welcome as preferable to paper.  They take a lot less trees to produce also.

The real flawed science with the plastic bag issue is what the far left claims about animal and seabird deaths.  On this point, they are completely mistaken and twisting a set of known non-facts to fit their claims. This is a pattern with the left and we have seen it with everything from their claims that the President was involved with 9/11 to dire warnings about global warming.

Can you just picture a seal or dolphin getting tangled up in your typical grocery store plastic bag?  Of course you can’t.  The bag is too small to envelope a large mammal and too open to trap a bird.  This is just part of the flawed thinking that goes into their claims.  Studies on the subject of debris that entangles animals and birds points to discarded fishing gear and fishing line, with no mention of plastic bags.

So how is it that the extreme left and the radical environmentalists can make such unsupported claims?  You have to go back to two studies; one in the eighties and one conducted six years ago.  The first study concluded that fishing nets killed a hundred thousand mammals a year.  The later study misquoted the earlier study and said that the culprit was plastic bags; clearly a mistake. 

The far left in Britain and the U.S. then jump on the later study without questioning it’s accuracy.  The authors of the more recent study finally corrected their mistake a year ago, but the left-wingers ignore the new information.  This is how the left operates

Regions of the U.S. have just been through one of the longest, coldest winters on record.  We have empirical evidence that this is true.  People can go outside and feel the wet snow and experience the brutal cold against their skin.  Does the left want to supply us with any empirical evidence that proves global warming?

This brings me around to a political question: who do you want running our country?  Should we rely on a President who believes in unsupported claims, pseudo-science, rumor and false panic to make decisions that effect us all?  Or should we elect someone who considers real science, empirical evidence and time-tested information to make their decisions?  The difference has a very real impact on every American. Think about the plastic bag.