Polar bears all over the place now, Native Alaskans say

American Thinker ^ | December 7,2017 | Monica Showalter

[Hojczyk]

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. I 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, but 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 attacked by ideological leftists and those for whom global warming is a religion.

Terence Corcoran of Canada's Financial Post notes that 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:

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Unpossible. They all floated away on bergs, the bergs melted, and they drowned somewhere in the South Pacific. Every schoolkid knows that, for crying out loud. It's proven science. Not up for debate.

BUT, it is rumored that a few of the polar bears survived and adapted perfectly well to their new clime...

[DeWalt]

Send some BLM activist up there to Polar bear hunt like they do in Philly.

[Windflier]

Those polar bears barbecuing the penguin is an old gif. I posted it for years around here.

[thinden]

Those polar bears barbecuing the penguin is an old gif. I posted it for years around here.

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First time l’ve seen it posted here in past 20 yrs..

It was pretty cool.

Thanx for coming up with it

[KC_Lion]

Alaska Ping

[Windflier]

Thanx for coming up with it

I can't take credit for it. I snagged it somewhere during my travels, then posted it here for years. It really is a great gif.

[American in Israel]

It’s not vitamin A, it’s mercury. Two bites and your a dead man.

[cpdiii]

The population of Polar Bears does not have one damn thing to do with climate. The population of Polar Bears is a function of how many can be hunted and killed. Canada an Alaska both manage the hunts to maintain the population at its best.

ps
They are vicious aggressive carnivores. My dad was in charge of a group of chopper pilots in Northern Canada in the sixties when we were building the DEW Line, “defence early warning system” which was our system to detect Russian bombers coming across the Artic in a time of war.

One of his choppers radioed in that they were having engine trouble and were setting down. Dad sent out choppers to help. When they arrived nothing was left but blood and gore. It appeared that the crew was outside the chopper and working on it when attacked. They took to the air and tracked the animal down and killed it with rifles from the air.

Polar Bears are really bad creatures.

[cpdiii]

Good post.

[Candor7]

Good post.>>>>>>>>>>>>

Coming from you, that’s a freeper compliment that is just about as good as it can get.

Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Hojczyk. Time to cull. Oh, and drill the ANWR

[Snowyman]

You want Polar Bears, Welcome to Churchill , Manitoba, The 'Polar Bear Capital of the World,'