Polar bears are a great example of the power grab I'm talking about. Their numbers are up, yet the AGW crowd is still trying to force them onto the Endangered Species List in order to restrict carbon emissions. The potential money involved in carbon credits is staggering and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/09/wpolar09.xml

>>"It goes without saying that climate realists around the world believe Nobel Laureate Al Gore used false information throughout his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in order to generate global warming hysteria.
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>>On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow."
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>The Polar bears that have become famous were a fictionalized account too. Polar bears are extremely strong swimmers, and they routinely ride ice bergs during the annual migration. I'm sure a few wind up getting eaten by something higher up the food chain, but I don't want to encounter whatever that might be.<g>