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Prediction of Regional Polar Bear Extinction Is "Useless Fearmongering"
The New American ^ | June 16, 2024 | By James Murphy

Posted on 06/16/2024 11:38:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A recent study is predicting a dire future for the polar bear population on Canada’s Hudson Bay due to the effects of global warming, which climate zealots claim is caused primarily by mankind’s emissions from using fossil fuels to power civilization. But at least one prominent polar bear scientist claims that the study is flawed and full of spurious methodology.

The study, published in the science journal Nature, ominously predicts that if the nations of the world are not successful in maintaining the Paris climate accord, Western Hudson Bay (WHB) and Southern Hudson Bay (SHB) polar bear populations will lose food sources, primarily ringed seals and their pups. This will lead to prolonged fasting periods, which could dramatically affect polar bear reproduction.

But, in her Polar Bear Science blog, researcher Susan Crockford dismisses the study as “yet another bit of utterly useless fearmongering.” Crockford is a zoologist with more than 40 years’ experience with polar bears. She was let go from the University of Victoria in Canada in 2019 when she found that, instead of being endangered as climate fanatics insist, polar bears were actually thriving.

Crockford explains the two main reasons that the study from the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto is flawed: “It’s a model projection that uses widely discredited SSP5-8.5 ‘business as usual’ climate scenarios for its predictions,” and “it’s based on the false premise that Western and Southern Hudson Bay polar bears have already suffered harm from reduced sea ice blamed on fossil fuel-caused global warming.”

According to Crockford, the paper suffers from the fact that the authors maintain an obvious bias toward the idea that the climate-zealot position that global warming is man-made and can only be addressed by the cessation of fossil fuel use is beyond...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; polarbears; scaremongering

1 posted on 06/16/2024 11:38:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

2 posted on 06/16/2024 11:40:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

HA! You beat me to it.


3 posted on 06/16/2024 11:40:56 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“This will lead to prolonged fasting periods...”

But that’s GOOD for humans. Why is it bad for bears? Hmmmm???


4 posted on 06/16/2024 11:47:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t be so quick to celebrate. There is not a single polar bear left in Scranton. It’s *boiling* hot here.


5 posted on 06/16/2024 11:50:08 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What’s next, Polar Bears drinking Bullet Proof Coffee?


6 posted on 06/16/2024 11:54:36 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Feeding the polar bear cookies - another day in Russia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Fj4PifRsA&pp=ygUSZmVlZGluZyBwb2xhciBiZWFy

7 posted on 06/16/2024 12:20:04 PM PDT by yelostar (TRUMP and only TRUMP 2024)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Polar bears are adapted for months of fasting -it is part of their existence.
8 posted on 06/16/2024 12:21:23 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: rdcbn1

That’s right.


9 posted on 06/16/2024 12:24:11 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: yelostar
Thinking those Rooskies may have been hitting the potato alcohol.

If that were me, I'd have the feeling that the cookies were just the appetizer and I was the main course.

10 posted on 06/16/2024 12:24:33 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The only good bear is a dead bear.


11 posted on 06/16/2024 12:58:44 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I urge global warmists to rush up to polar bear country and give a polar bear a big hug, let them know how much you care.


12 posted on 06/16/2024 2:57:16 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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One wonders how the polar bear survived the warming when Greenland was actually green and you could grow grapes there.


13 posted on 06/16/2024 3:03:20 PM PDT by curious7
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What’s nice is that the polar bears are looking forward to human extinction...one bite at a time...


14 posted on 06/16/2024 3:04:54 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sixty years ago they were predicting the extinction of the American Alligator!
Then in the 1980s the extinction of the Prairie Dog!
Then the Polar Bear!
Every few years it is something else.


15 posted on 06/16/2024 3:18:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Sixty years ago they were predicting the extinction of the American Alligator!

Then in the 1980s the extinction of the Prairie Dog!

Then the Polar Bear!

Every few years it is something else.

Bald eagle.

Grizzly Bear.

Honey Bees.

Bumble bees.

Salt water crocodiles

African Elephants.

Whales.

All the above are doing fine.

Never: Mosquitoes, Fire Ants, Chiggers. Because people do not have a problem with the extinction of some species...

16 posted on 06/16/2024 3:34:19 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: HighSierra5

As long as the leftwits don’t try to reintroduce them to Georgia. 😏


17 posted on 06/16/2024 4:05:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: HighSierra5

I will not cry if the polar bears become extinct. For the time being, their numbers are increasing.


18 posted on 06/16/2024 6:30:20 PM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Machavelli

Polar bears have made it through two previous interglacials. The earth was warmer then.


19 posted on 06/16/2024 7:54:09 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"she found that, instead of being endangered as climate fanatics insist, polar bears were actually thriving."


20 posted on 06/16/2024 10:35:36 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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