Posted on 02/23/2024 9:57:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The story that polar bears are starving because of a lack of sheet ice has been around for awhile—it was also on NBC on Sunday night. It is pure propaganda. Neither NBC nor the AP who published the following article did any research or asked any questions before indoctrinating the public with this piece.
For example, the article did not show how many polar bears there were in the past, nor did it show how many there are today. They just told the public that climate change was forcing them to starve. And since the media pushes the agenda that humans, and our use of natural resources is the cause of climate change, we are at fault.
From AP via Yahoo News:
For threatened polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition
For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests.
With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer.
In the 1980s, the “polar bears are dying from climate change” story took off with National Geographic—but it was not factual. Around 2.5 billion people watched the 1982 video of the emaciated polar bear dragging itself across a barren landscape, which aired just seven years after a thirty-five year global cooling period ended; it was a time when many “experts” predicted a disastrous coming ice age.
A few years back, Jon Miltimore debunked the “myth”of declining polar bear populations due to climate change, and reported a number of facts that contradict the mainstream left narrative. First off, the polar bear population is “thriving”:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Data from conservation groups and the government show that the polar bear population is roughly five times what it was in the 1950s and three or four times what it was in the 1970s when polar bears became protected under international treaty.
In the middle of the 20th century, the estimated number of polar bears was around 5,000; now that figure is 25,000 to 30,000. They were dwindling because of overhunting, not climate change. The polar bear population has gone up over 400% since the 1950s, and 300% since the 1970s, despite warming.
A year after the video aired, the National Geographic admitted that they had no proof that climate change was causing any problem for the bears. It is a shame that a supposedly reliable scientific publication would try to manipulate the public based on an agenda, instead of facts. The media knows, or should know, that National Geographic lied over 40 years ago, but they don’t care.
Does not matter. It fits the narrative and the biases of the people.
Very interesting.
Thanks for the info.
The climate has been changing on earth since for 4 billion years. There has been at least 5 ice-ages. And every time an ice-age period ends... well... it’s the beginning of a new “climate-warming” period.
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