JimBowie1958
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Woketards cannot tolerate anyone disagreeing with their ideology.
WATCH: Canadian Prof Loses Job for Saying Polar Bears Not Endangered
Crockford’s “crime” was to point out that contrary to environmentalists’ computer projections, polar bear populations have increased, not decreased — despite “global warming”.
“What happened was that in 2007 there was a prediction that when sea ice declined to about 42 per cent below what it would have been in 1979 that two-thirds of the polar bears in the world would be gone. That would be 10 out of the 19 sub populations that exist.
But what has happened, we find from research, is that bear numbers have not gone down but in fact have gone up by at least 16 per cent and probably more. So the bears are thriving despite the fact that sea ice has declined dramatically.”
The “polar bears starving because of melting sea ice” story has been a staple of the green scare narrative.
In 2017, for example, footage of an emaciated polar bear rummaging pitifully through trash cans became a huge international story.
The video for National Geographic attracted over two million views. It was set to tear-jerking music and accompanied by the utterly dishonest and misleading message “This is what climate change looks like.”
In fact, as Crockford explains, this was the purest green #FakeNews.
“Starving is the leading natural cause of death for polar bears. It just happens.”
If the polar bear was starving to death, it was likely the result of its being old or sick — not because of melting summer sea ice.
Crockford says:
“Polar bears do most of their feeding in the spring time, not the summer. Starving polar bears don’t tell us anything about populations.”
Crockford’s “crime” was to point out that contrary to environmentalists’ computer projections, polar bear populations have increased, not decreased — despite “global warming”.
“What happened was that in 2007 there was a prediction that when sea ice declined to about 42 per cent below what it would have been in 1979 that two-thirds of the polar bears in the world would be gone. That would be 10 out of the 19 sub populations that exist.
But what has happened, we find from research, is that bear numbers have not gone down but in fact have gone up by at least 16 per cent and probably more. So the bears are thriving despite the fact that sea ice has declined dramatically.”
The “polar bears starving because of melting sea ice” story has been a staple of the green scare narrative.
In 2017, for example, footage of an emaciated polar bear rummaging pitifully through trash cans became a huge international story.
The video for National Geographic attracted over two million views. It was set to tear-jerking music and accompanied by the utterly dishonest and misleading message “This is what climate change looks like.”
In fact, as Crockford explains, this was the purest green #FakeNews.
“Starving is the leading natural cause of death for polar bears. It just happens.”
If the polar bear was starving to death, it was likely the result of its being old or sick — not because of melting summer sea ice.
Crockford says:
“Polar bears do most of their feeding in the spring time, not the summer. Starving polar bears don’t tell us anything about populations.”