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You probably don’t remember the Great Polar Bear Panic. Led by someone named Al Gore-- remember Al Gore?-- climate change activists insisted that if we did not do something, anything, about global warming, there would be no more polar bears. I trust that it kept you up at night.
But now, reality has thrown some seriously cold water on that prediction. In truth, there have never been as many polar bears.
Bjorn Lomberg has the news:
Not long ago, environmentalists constantly used pictures of polar bears to highlight the dangers of climate change. Polar bears even featured in Al Gore’s terrifying movie An Inconvenient Truth. But the reality is that polar bear numbers have been increasing — from somewhere between five and 10,000 polar bears in the 1960s up to around 26,000 today. We don’t hear this news, however. Instead, campaigners just quietly stopped using polar bears in their activism.
So, you need not worry about the declining population of polar bears. Don’t go off your meds yet, however. They will find something else.
Via Maggie’s Farm and Daniel Greenfield.
1 comment:
Polar bears feed on seals. The more polar bears, the more seals that get eaten. Doesn’t anybody feel sorry for the many more seals getting eaten alive due to the increase in polar bear numbers? Seals are more cute and cuddly than polar bears, and polar bears are the only bears that eat humans. I think its speciesism or speciesist (analogous to racism and racist) to favor one animal species over another, especially one as nasty as the polar bear.
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