And another one bites the dust. Polar bears and their supposed decline are the mascots of global warming hysteria. As a consequence, we hampered our prosperity in the USA by legally restricting energy creation based on the apparently very wrong notion that polar bears are “threatened.” No, they are apparently thriving. From the Globe and Mail story. “Healthy Polar Bear Count Confounds Doomsayers:”
The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. That’s 66 per cent higher than estimates by other researchers who forecasted the numbers would fall to as low as 610 because of warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin bears’ ability to hunt. The Hudson Bay region, which straddles Nunavut and Manitoba, is critical because it’s considered a bellwether for how polar bears are doing elsewhere in the Arctic.
The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing. The study shows that “the bear population is not in crisis as people believed,” said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut’s director of wildlife management. “There is no doom and gloom.”
But the computer models tell us they will be threatened! Someday. Sorry fellas. That hysterical bear doesn’t hunt anymore. So hysterics, stop making children cry!
