My daughter loves polar bears. All bears really, but especially polar bears. If it’s white and covered in fur, she’s likely to mistake it for a polar bear. There’s something about bears that kids love. In real life, polar bears are one of the few bears that will prey aggressively on human beings.
And environmentalists love scaring little kids by telling them that all the polar bears are about to die off because people insist on heating their homes and driving to work.
Every December and July brings another edition of the same warmunist nonsense.
Canada’s polar-bear capital Churchill warms too fast for bears – BBC
Churchill embodies the inextricable link between preserving the natural world and fighting global warming. The polar-bear capital of the world is simply getting too warm for polar bears.
As Bjorrn Lomborg recently demonstrated, there are more polar bears than at any time in 60 years.
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.
Hunting reduced polar bear populations, some supposed ‘warming’ trend never did. That won’t stop the lie from being retold because it is an emotionally effective lie.
The polar bears are always endangered and the green brigade is always rushing out to save them by raising taxes to change the weather.
You have a daughter? And you make a living out of denying the reality of climate change? Out of promoting the pollution of the air your daughter will breathe, the water she will drink? How can you? Why? Is the pay so good?
Emotional incontinence is a side effect of too much AGW, Climate Change, CO2 is poison, kool aid
Climate change is a reality. The reality is that the world is a living system and its changes have nothing to do with us, on a planetary scale.
I would like my daughter to inherit a world where she has a future, that includes available drinking water, currently being redirected here for the sake of the salmon, the benefits of industrial civilization, currently being tanked so that green scammers can profit from consulting fees, a home, currently being targeted by environmentalists who want us all crammed into urban megablocks, and food to eat, which animal rights activists are trying to outlaw.
That’s why,
Thanks Daniel, I vividly remember when the wild rivers movement started, must have been in the early 1960s or late 1950s. At least that’s when I first noticed it, in my deeply Democrat SF Bay neighborhood, where we had a large number of kayakers, due to an expert kayak maker who lived there. Mostly we would kayak on the bay. When the wild rivers movement became popular, the neighborhood organized a kayaking expedition to one of those rivers, maybe the Feather River, my Dad took some home movies of their antics on the river. Good times 🙂
As far as I remember, noone mentioned anything about the contradiction between wild rivers and public water supply.
Soon the movement branched out widely, to saving the fish, taking down the Hetch Hetchy Dam (which even San Francisco wasn’t willing to go along with when the chips were down, since that was where San Francisco got its water), to voting against bonds for new dams. I remember that even I, considered too young to have an opinion, voted for the last big dam (maybe that was the New Melones Dam) to the severe disapproval of some of my elders, who were all in on the environmentalism of the day, including that Rachel Carson book.
There was some point to it though, after WW2 and into the 1950s, there was a lot of pressure to fill San Francisco Bay, practically turning it into a polluted river.
the Left took conservationism, often legitimate, and turned it into environmentalism, detaching human concerns entirely and eventually replacing concerns about reducing actual pollution that threatened human beings with just stigmatizing all human activity
Very good Daniel, I lived through that process of conservationism morphing into leftist environmentalism. Very unfortunate process. They won’t listen to reason, so practical solutions to environmental problems often don’t get implemented when solutions are readily available. Of course I have some guilt, such as the time a local politician asked me for some videos about clean diesel engines, and I was too inept at the time to know how to share them with her. That could have been a good relationship.
“That Rachel Carson book” is one of the most toxic pieces of pollution floating around America today, and its beautifully-written lies will not die. As I understand it, Carson developed cancer, and “somebody was responsible”, so she decided to go after the pesticide industry. A pesticide that had saved countless lives was pulled from the shelves and it became forbidden to manufacture or export it. I do not know how many people, mostly brown and black children died worldwide due to this ban over the past sixty years, but it probably numbers in the high millions. But fear not, the raptors, whose shells were never affected by DDT in the first place, were doing well, at least until the bird cuisinarts, i.e., wind farms, were built to save the planet.
Yeah, I remember that, we were so naive at the time that we believed that stuff. DDT thinning the eggshells of birds? I haven’t looked it up to see if it is true, at the time I believed it, but thinking about it recently it seems pretty dubious.
You would actually attack a guy because he has a daughter? Just because he’s conservative and patriotic? And that’t’s a tangential threat to his daughter by the way.
You’re lucky the web is for the most part anonymous. I would fucking kill you if I ever saw you.
You don’t threaten a guy’s kids.
thanks
You’re more than welcome.
Very brave, threatening a username online. I’m sure you’re getting measured for your medal of valor.
Seriously, can you read? When did I threaten anyone’s kids????
Climate is always changing, hence oil in Alaska. Do you really believe the billionaires on their private jets meeting to discuss how you can change it will work?
In the 70’s, Time magazine devoted several covers to the deadly ice age coming upon us. When the predicted ice age failed to appear, “global warming” became all the rage. Now, “climate change” is vogue to conceal the obvious chicanery. “Climate change” is accurately known as WEATHER. It is cyclical in nature because that massive ball of light and heat in our sky also has cycles.
But the word “weather” has no social utility for out globalist masters.
Exactly.
You know it’s a fraud, when the false prophets have to get deliberately vague. At least the Erlich nonsense and the ice age were specific. Now they reboot their metrics every few years while blaming everything that goes wrong on ‘climate change;.
Sometimes i wonder what my grandmother, an early 20th century immigrant to America, would fathom of climate change. She had that new contraption, a TV, and though she struggled with English, she sure could mock the evening news weatherman for being consistently wrong.
Yep. Nobody can get next week’s weather prediction right, but the “experts” are quick to predict the weather for 50 years from now. Your grandmother would have gotten a good laugh over it.
The fate of the damned polar bears is not even on the radar of importance. Let them all die, we won’t miss them for even one minute.
Yeah, fuck them.
Hi Jeff 🙂
My neighbor (Berkeley prof) had an all-white polar bear rug, complete with head, when I was a kid in the 1950s 🙂
It must have disappeared at some point, maybe when it became environmentally unfashionable.
We used to go on class trips to Sagamore Hill, TR’s Long Island retreat. He had an impressive trophy room complete with an enormous stuffed polar bear greeting visitors at the door. Looked to me like the damned thing was 12 feet tall, but I wasn’t a very big kid so you can’t really tell.
It seems like it might of been soft and comfy though. 🙂
The people who live in the circumpolar regions wouldn’t miss ’em, that’s for sure. Nice to have to bring a high-powered rifle with you when you take out the trash.
do your part to save the planet and self-euthanize, STAT, ya pathetic, limey wanker!
wtf, where’s the edit option? this was supposed to be a reply to that limey wanker dickhorn!
This whole Save the Polar Bear campaign was a big time scam just like the Save the Rain Forest campaign a big time scam
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“As Bjorn Lomborg recently demonstrated, there are more polar bears than at any time in 60 years.”
Thanks for the story, Mr. Greenfield, but Rush Limbaugh was saying this same thing on his radio program AT LEAST ten years ago (probably longer ago than that, I just cannot remember now with precision after all of these years). Just like President Trump, Limbaugh was rarely wrong, but some people refuse to acknowledge that fact.
he was right, it’s not a new observation, Lomborg cites more data and the latest numbers which are pretty good
Yeah. Ever since the Eskimos had their hunting licence to kill polar beats restricticted in the Great White North, (Canada, eh?).The polar bear numbers have increased.
Ask an Eskimo.
also less seals being hunted so the polar bears have no competition for food supplies and no remaining natural predators
Why don’t we send some of them down to AlGore in Tennessee???????????????????????????
Al Gore doesn’t live in Tennessee anymore. I think that he now lives in California.
I guess that you know that in the 2000 presidential election, Tennessee voted for Bush, NOT Gore.
If someone had been asked during the Clinton-Gore administration what were the chances that five years after the end of that administration Clinton would have still been married to Hillary, and Gore would have been divorced from Tipper, what would most people have said? Life is strange.
When a few months of drought arrived in East Texas, my grandmother insisted that nuclear bomb testing in New Mexico caused it.
When testing ceased, the rains came back to East Texas. Therefore, Nana was right.
So Nana was one of those people for whom the singular of “data” is “anecdote”?
The last ice age ended only about 10,000 years ago. That is nothing in geologic time. Of course the earth is warming. These crooks are trying to scare people into surrendering their freedom.
The most important things you need to know about polar bears are:
(1) Never get near one without a Weatherby .460 magnum, preferably with telescopic sight so you don’t have to get too near,
(2) If you shoot one, don’t eat all of the liver yourself. It is very big and contains potentially fatal amounts of Vitamin D. Better to call all your friends over and share it with them in a big feast, and
(3) The damned things are proliferating like crazy.
Sorry if these facts upset your daughter, Daniel, especially the last one, but one day she’ll be able to face them. Until then buy her polar bear stuffed animals, but be sure to buy stuffed-animal seals, too, so that the bears will have something to eat. (This last fact courtesy of my eldest son, who brought both stuffed animals with him when he was little for that reason on an overnight with the grandparents.)
They made two family rated movies involving Polar Bears Norm of the North and Arctic Tale both movies bombed