Sarah hates polar bears ... no really!

As Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin had one huge pet peeve. It was that annoyingly cute, white furred polar bear. And when the US government decided to list it as a threatened species, she promised to sue.

Her fear? Crippling oil and gas development in polar bear habitat off the state's coastline. She claimed the bears were not in any danger. She claimed their numbers were being maintained. And all that bunk about the continued loss of sea ice, the main habitat of polar bears, nothing more than the stuff of fairytales.

Palin, as usual, was wrong!

"She's either grossly misinformed or intentionally misleading, and both are unbecoming," said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity who wrote the report on protecting the bears. "Alaska deserves better."

"Even the Bush administration can't deny the reality of global warming," she said. "The governor is aligning herself and the state of Alaska with the most discredited, fringe, extreme viewpoints by denying this."

"First, sea ice is vital to polar bear survival. Second, the polar bear's sea-ice habitat has dramatically melted in recent decades. Third, computer models suggest sea ice is likely to further recede in the future," Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said.

The ice is where polar bears hunt deals. As ice recedes, the bears have less rich water in which to feed.

A study in 2006 study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that fewer polar bear cubs in the Beaufort Sea were surviving. And adults? They weighed less than they should.

A U.S. Geological Survey study predicted polar bears in Alaska could be wiped out by 2050.

Her influence as VP (or worse, President) could have irrevocable consequences!