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National Geographic Admits 'Starving Polar Bear' Was a Bit of a Fraud
Independent Sentinel ^ | July 27, 2018 | S. Noble

Posted on 07/28/2018 7:38:09 AM PDT by Zakeet

Remember that video of an emaciated Baffin Island polar bear that went viral last December? It became the poster bear for climate change. National Geographic made a stunning admission - it was a bit bogus.

The Statement:

National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our video about the animal. We said, "This is what climate change looks like." While science has established that there is a strong connection between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off, there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death. This is an updated version of the video.

In other words, it was completely bogus. There was zero evidence the bear’s condition and climate change were tied together.

(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chatforum; climatechange; climatechangehoax; environment; fakebutaccurate; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; manbearpig; nationalgeographic; polarbear; science; weather
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... another libtard fake but accurate moment ...

1 posted on 07/28/2018 7:38:09 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Not even closely accurate. Just FAKE.

TOTAL LIE.


2 posted on 07/28/2018 7:42:06 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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To: Zakeet
Next thing you'll tell me is that polar bears don't drink Coke.


3 posted on 07/28/2018 7:47:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Delta 21

Why is the Polar Bear smiling???? He found a dry place to pee......


4 posted on 07/28/2018 7:48:30 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: Zakeet
science has established that there is a strong connection between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off

However, that is pure speculation since "science" has not established that

1) sea ice is melting at anything outside normal rates, if at all. And
2) polar bears are not dying off at rates exceeding the norm.

If the results are falsified, it's most likely the cause is as well.

5 posted on 07/28/2018 7:49:23 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Zakeet

So why is NatGeo coming clean (sort of) all of a sudden?


6 posted on 07/28/2018 7:51:27 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: Zakeet

Nah, really?

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you!


7 posted on 07/28/2018 7:52:13 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Leaning Right

“”””Next thing you’ll tell me is that polar bears don’t drink Coke.”””””””””””””

You must not know much about polar bears. They don’t drink Coke. They are weight conscious so they only drink Diet Coke.


8 posted on 07/28/2018 7:54:34 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: IronJack

Al Gore made more money off of this fakery than he ever would have out of winning the election.


9 posted on 07/28/2018 7:54:36 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Zakeet

It was AN ANCIENT BEAR! Looking for a quiet place to die. Its grandcubs might find the corpse and be sustained for another month. Jeeze, Nat Geo bleeding heart snowflakes... Get your heads out of your nether regions.Pay attention to the way things ARE, not the way you think they ought to be. There is a link somewhere to a place called, “Nature is SCARY!”


10 posted on 07/28/2018 7:54:43 AM PDT by redhead (PRAYfor little ones in pedo pipeline: child livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
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To: Zakeet

Now do straws.


11 posted on 07/28/2018 7:54:56 AM PDT by Artaniss (Getting Fed Up)
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To: IronJack

Last time I looked Polar bear populations were increasing in some regions, falling in others, not so much from climate change as human hunting, or absence of.


12 posted on 07/28/2018 7:56:21 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: Zakeet

In the winter polar bears stalk the holes seals use to come up through the ice to breath. Hunting is fairly easy. The ice has always thawed in the summer, and polar bears starve then. A lot of them don’t make it.

Ice is well within historical ranges.


13 posted on 07/28/2018 8:15:55 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is fraud.,)
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To: Zakeet

14 posted on 07/28/2018 8:16:26 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Arm_Bears
"So why is NatGeo coming clean (sort of) all of a sudden?"

Because they are now owned by FOX News.

15 posted on 07/28/2018 8:18:34 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Zakeet
5 years ago I wrote a letter asking them to back off the "all climate change, all the time" routine. I gave them my credentials, as they were, and told them how much the magazine had always meant to me.


I also cancelled my subscription 'until I could see from the magazine racks that things had improved.' They have improved, quite a bit.


I believe there are more than a few "climate skeptics" on the boards of National Geographic. May they prevail and may the journal once again espouse the highest standards of - not pure scientific inquiry, but - discovery.


Sadly, last time I checked on "Scientific American," they were still on the bandwagon, but National Geographic has noticeably backed off the climate change cult stuff.


Alas there is a generation of scientists and biologists for whom this is a religion, and they teach.



16 posted on 07/28/2018 8:21:47 AM PDT by golux
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To: Arm_Bears

Still sells papers.


17 posted on 07/28/2018 8:29:09 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Arm_Bears

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


18 posted on 07/28/2018 8:30:00 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Zakeet
maybe it had a stomach tumor or some such, it does happen
19 posted on 07/28/2018 8:34:58 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Zakeet

A Bit of a Fraud.

Like being a Bit Pregnant.


20 posted on 07/28/2018 8:38:35 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Whose Gonna Fill Their Shoes...?)
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