We all know how the Jacinda regime is making as much as it can from a virus that, following mutations, for nearly everyone is now no worse than a bad cold, but the ongoing claims about how the world will end soon if we don’t revert to the level of economic activity that existed 200 years ago is just as much an issue. There are plenty of folks saying that once arguments for lockdowns because of Omicron, Anothercon etc. cease to be credible, it will be replaced with Climate Change lockdowns.
from Climate Change Dispatch —
‘Inside Climate News’ Pushes Phony Claims Of Declining Polar Bears
A Google News search of the phrase “climate change,” today turns up a story in Inside Climate News claiming polar bears are declining due to climate change.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Data show polar bear numbers have grown significantly during the recent modest warming.
The story, “Warming Trends: Climate Threats to Bears, Bugs and Bees, Plus a Giant Kite and an ER Surge,” covered a lot of topics, not all of them related directly to climate change.
The first section of the story, however, claimed later than usual freezing conditions in the Hudson Bay in 2021 threatened the polar bear populations there.
Inside Climate News writes:
The Hudson Bay in northern Canada froze up later than normal this year, delaying polar bears’ hunting season by two to three weeks, a nonprofit polar bear conservation organization found.
When the ice on the bay is thick enough, polar bears living in Hudson Bay migrate out onto the ice to hunt for seals.
Last year marked the second-latest freeze-up on record of the Hudson Bay, after 2010.
Contrary to what is implied in the Inside Climate News story, data show polar bear numbers across the arctic region and for most sub-populations have increased dramatically since the 1970s, during the period of modest warming.
The increase has occurred despite waxing and waning sea ice extent and normal historical variation in freeze-up dates.
Research presented in Climate at a Glance: Polar Bears shows polar bear populations have increased dramatically during recent decades as the planet has warmed, quadrupling since the 1950s.
Polar bear populations have risen from between 5,000 and 10,000 bears in 1950 to between 22,000 and 31,000, today based on an estimate of the Polar Bear Monitoring Group.
Inconvenient for the Globalists —
