Posted on 06/27/2009 5:34:36 PM PDT by raybbr
Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.
This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN's major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December. But one of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.
Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.
Dr Taylor agrees that the Arctic has been warming over the last 30 years. But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 – as is dictated by the computer models of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and believed by his PBSG colleagues ...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
More pics of the bears please...they sure are better than pics of the pols. ha.
They’re afraid he’ll let the cat out of the bag, that polar bears can swim, lol. Poor babies, stranded on ice floes, doomed to starve and drown ... such a compelling narrative.
The name of the group is called Polar Bear Scientific Group...that pretty much tells you it’s a kook-fringe group.
I have Benjamin Linus’ personal assurance that polar bears can withstand even the heat of the North African deserts, so there shouldn’t be any problems.
Here's the problem ~ Arctic Sea Ice this summer is out of control.
Dissenters in the soviet union were made to disappear. Here they are shunned, ignored, disinvited, fired, not published. Not much difference.
And not just swim, but they can swim for miles. And do.
Dissent from the politically accepted norm will not be tolerated.
Good thing for these global warming alarmists that they don’t believe in evil, or they’d have to admit they themselves are the evil ones - they scream about GWB ‘suppressing’ their viewpoint based on nothing more than one of his advisors only once suggesting the James Hanson of NASA put a lid on it, and then they censor the truth regarding Polar Bears at their global warming lie-athon in Copenhagen. And how about the EPA suppressing their own report regarding global warming? F**king fascists is what these Lefties are.
Namaste
The world’s leading expert on polar bears, says (in effect) that the democrat party is full of beat poop.
The world’s leading expert on polar bears, says (in effect) that the democrat party is full of bear poop.
They are having problems with the imaging satellite and you can’t rely on the daily images. Today’s images are not as bad, but still not that reliable http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
The monthly trend shows what is happening. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html They are launching a new satellite next year that is supposed to give much better images and also show thickness of the ice.
Overall, the total sea ice concentration for the North and South Poles are at about the historical average (since 1979 when they started using these satellite images. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
LOL!
OMG! I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.
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