To climate change fanatics, polar bears are the eye candy for the
worldwide call for action on global warming. There have been news reports about
the sad shape they are in, with their coats going brown, their food supplies
drying up and their ice floes melting. Conclusion: the bears are set to starve.
Welp, turns out there are too many of them now.
According to Marc Morano's Climate
Depot:
2 New Papers: 92% Of Polar Bear Subpopulations Stable,
Increasing – Inuit Observe ‘Too Many Polar Bears Now’
and
Inuit
observations of polar bear ecology: “Last year he said that there’s
more bears that are more fat … they rarely see unhealthy bears… back
in early 80s, and mid 90s, there were hardly any bears … there’s too
many polar bears now."
So, instead of furtive bears withering away on ice floes and starving
due to loss of habitat, rising sea levels or whatever the global warmers claim,
what we actualy have here is a bear explosion with bears so well fed they've
gotten fat.
It's more than just anecdotal - the bear populations are exploding
everywhere:
In Russia, near its Chukotka peninsula, AFP reports:
MOSCOW: A boatload of tourists in the far eastern Russian Arcticthought they
were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realisation
that some 200 polar bears were roaming on the mountain slope.
"It was a completely unique situation," said Alexander Gruzdev, director of the Wrangel Island nature reserve where the encounter in September happened. "We were all gobsmacked, to be honest."
"It was a completely unique situation," said Alexander Gruzdev, director of the Wrangel Island nature reserve where the encounter in September happened. "We were all gobsmacked, to be honest."
Several years ago, we were warned that bears were starving due to
global warming and would be irretrievably lost.
I recall the first interview I did with Alaska's then-governor
Sarah Palin about the polar bear situation in 2008 before she got famous and asked
her if the news reports were right that polar bears were starving. I only have
a reference
to the link, unfortunately, but I vividly recall her most memorable quote:
Our bears are healthy bears!
She added that maybe that could be the situation in Canada but it
certainly wasn't in Alaska.
Now ABC News
and NBC News
are reporting that bears are flooding Alaska's villages, supposedly because of
the loss of their ice floe habitat. The Washington Post is bringing them up as
an argument
against the GOP tax cut bill.
Problematically to the claim about the missing ice floes (unlikely
now that it's winter), the photos prominently feature obese bears who clearly
haven't fled any sort of famine.
Fact is, not only are the Alaska natives seeing too many bears
proliferating, so are the scientists who study them. Professor Susan Crockford
of the University of Victory has observed the proliferation of bears and far
from saying they are endangered, she concludes they "are not at risk"
which of course got her attackedby
ideological leftists and those for whom global warming is a religion.
The Financial Post of Canada's Terence Corcoran notes this
bear issue and the left's shifting story on it is a magic talking point for
global warmers who go after anyone who deviates from their party
line:
It’s all part of an escalating epic of polar bear junk science. It
begins with a paper in which Amstrup, who heads the activist group Polar Bears
International, and other climate scientists —including
famed temperature hockey-stick maker Michael Mann— produce what must be one
of the most pathetic scientific smear jobs in the already sorry history of
climate change science smear campaigns. Also along for the hatchet job was
Stephan Lewandowsky, an Australian psychologist who asserts that people who
have doubts about climate policy are wacky
conspiracy theorists who would also tend to believe the 1969 moon landing was
faked.
So instead of starving, global warming is now causing bears to
proliferate. We are supposed to be upset about it no matter what the truth is.
It just goes to show that global warmers just can't get their stories straight.
And they want to have their bears and starve them, too.