The Bear Essentials
At the COP15 Climate Conference in December 2008, Al Gore predicted that the North Pole would be ice-free in five years. Citing research by climate experts, a year later Gore said, “The North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming”. In the summer of 2013, and subsequent years after that, Gore has remained unapologetic.
Sympathetic media, admonishing anthropogenic climate change skeptics, says Gore meant that there would be a 75% of the ice-free condition. However, as shown in the graph below, since 2007 the linear trend of Arctic Sea ice has remained constant.
Looking back further in the history of Arctic Sea ice extent, the 1940s shows less ice than that which exists today. This is the essential reason activist climate researchers desire to start their graphs in the late 1970s.
Advocate climate change science says polar bear populations are in extreme danger as Arctic Sea ice dissipates.
It is assumed that in the 1990s, biologist Andrew Derocher of the University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences made the polar bear the evidentiary mascot of global warming. In a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) documentary Derocher is quoted as saying, “Our estimation is that we probably won’t have polar bears in Churchill once we get out to mid-century. They could be gone in a couple of years.”
The Churchill he refers to is situated in the very far north of the province of Manitoba, on the coast of Hudson Bay and just 68 miles from the Nunavut territory border. One of Churchill’s major tourist attractions occurs in mid-fall as visitors view polar bears from an elevated bus called a Tundra Buggy.
A story in Nat Hab, a collaborative effort of the World Wildlife Fund reads, “Churchill is one of the best places in the world to see polar bears in their natural habitat.” That would be true if their natural habitat included the town dump.
Susan Crockford, Zoologist and owner of Polar Bear Science in Victoria, British Columbia says that the polar bear population rose from 10,000 in the year 1950 to between 35,000 and 40,000 to the present day. In this regard, John Whiteman, chief research scientist at Polar Bears International, a climate change proponent and activist group, imprudently said “It’s misleading to claim that polar bears are ‘thriving’ because of ‘increasing population”.
The linked video below talks about the growth in polar bear populations. Linked here, is the most disgusting activist video relative to polar bear extinction.
