Oh, no, those poor, poor Polar Bears. Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Disruption is melting the Polar ice and this is leading to the death of the Polar Bears. Unless we do something very soon to stop global warming, the polar bear species will become extinct. NO, NO, NO. If you believe the above you have bought into one of the greatest, calculated publicity myths ever foisted upon us by the environmental extremists and their gullible politician friends who “believe” Global Warming is a serious and immediate threat to our civilization. Here are the facts: There are thousands more polar bears alive today that in 1973. Why 1973? Well, that was the turning point. That was the year of the signing of an international agreement to protect polar bears from commercial and unregulated sport hunting. The devastating decades of uncontrolled slaughter across the Arctic, including the Bering Sea, finally came to an end. On November 5, 2013, Jackson Landers wrote on the Slate TV website: There are currently about 25,000 polar bears worldwide. In the 1970s the species numbered somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000; their recovery since then is owed in part to a 1975 treaty regulating the hunting of polar bears. Matt Ridley, a British Journalist who writes mostly about scientific topics writes: “In other words, the claim that polar bear populations are declining at all, let alone due to climate change, is a manufactured myth, designed for media consumption and with very little basis in fact. That it works all too well is demonstrated by an episode in 2011 involving Sir David Attenborough. In a television series the brilliant television presenter, unwisely diverging from neutral natural history, had asserted that the polar bear is already in trouble.” Ridley then explains how this miss-information seen and believed by millions has triggered a major debate among British scientists and politicians. In denial of the increase in the Polar Bear population, in 2008 the U.S. Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 based on evidence that the animals sea ice habitat is shrinking and is likely to continue to do so over the next several decades. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the departments decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bears sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate carbon dioxide. The decision was based on evidence that sea ice is vital for polar bear survival, that this sea ice habitat has been reduced, and that this process is likely to continue; if something is not done to change this situation, the polar bear will be extinct within 45 years, Kempthorne said. He pointed to computer models he and his colleagues studied that project a 30 percent decline in sea ice by 2050. The concept of issuing an endangerment ruling based on the predictions of a computer model and a theory about melting ice and polar bear deaths has led to a major debate. Many scientists have grown frustrated with the domination of the polar bear story by dogmatic propagandists and have begun to speak out. Susan Crockford, a zoologist with more than 35 years of experience, including work on the Holocene history of Arctic animals is one of them. She is the one who documents that the global population of polar bears has increased by 2,650-5,700 since 2001. She points out that DNA studies have shown that polar bears have existed as a species for about 600,000 years. They have lived through many warming and cooling periods in Earth’s history, and they didn’t become extinct during times when ice disappeared. Polar bears also interbred with brown bears during those phases when they had to seek out food on land rather than the seals that they now prefer. Neither hybridization nor global warming are likely to wipe out the polar bear anytime soon When a polar bear write up was posted on the WattsUpWithThat web site one Australian posted the following comment: RoHa says: I certainly wasn’t worried. Polar bears are not much of a threat here. It’s years since they ate anyone in Brisbane. LOL
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 04:14:32 +0000
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