The Daily Mail reports:
A bitter wind blows off the Arctic Ocean but the mother polar bear and her two cubs standing just 50ft in front of me are in their element.
For more than an hour I watch from a boat just offshore, transfixed and oblivious to the below-freezing temperatures, as the four-month-old twins gambol across the snow.
For years polar bears have been the poster boys of global warming – routinely reported to be threatened with extinction due to melting ice-packs and rising sea temperatures.
Indeed, when they were put on the US Endangered Species list in 2008, they were the first to be registered solely because of the perceived threat of global warming.
One prominent scientist said their numbers would be reduced by 70 per cent by 2050 while global warming proponents – including Al Gore and Sir David Attenborough – used emotive imagery to highlight their ‘demise’.
Yet there is one small problem: many polar bear populations worldwide are now stable, if not increasing.
Always reminded me of the mermaids in Peter Pan.
“Aren’t they very sweet?”
“They’ll very sweetly drown you.”
Girl, the reporter is a girl, and I’m sure she thinks the Polar Bears are cute and cuddly.
This is actually old news. And the guy reporting it is downplaying what is actually happening. Polar bear populations worldwide are exploding, and are a threat to small towns in Northern Canada, but with the restrictions in place to to the “threat” they have limit ability to do anything about the new problem of excess bears.
Reblogged this on Mothers Against Wind Turbines and commented:
One more thing that the greentards were wrong about!