As Polar Bear Population Explodes, Animal Loses its Climate Crisis Mascot Status
It’s a good thing their numbers are thriving. After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets done, polar bear safaris may be Canada’s only growth industry.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2019. I covered a book entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened” by Dr. Susan Crockford. The University of Victoria professor analyzes the latest data and reviews the questionable values in official estimates, concluding that polar bears are thriving.
Subsequently, she was fired from her position at the university.
However, it didn’t stop what she wrote from being true.
The polar bear, the iconic image of the climate crisis, has entirely lost its eco-activist mascot status. Climate expert Bjorn Lomborg (President of the Copenhagen Consensus and Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution) recently examined the numbers in a New York Post piece and came to the same conclusion.
Protesters dressed as polar bears, while Al Gore’s hit 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death.
The Washington Post warned that polar bears faced extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund’s chief scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012.
And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears.
Why? Because after years of misrepresentation, it finally became impossible for them to ignore a mountain of evidence showing that the global polar bear population has increased substantially from around 12,000 in the 1960s to around 26,000 in the present day. (The main reason? People are hunting a lot less polar bears).
Polar bear population increasing
But doesn't fit climate narrative, so info cancelled
Reality:
Polar bears were intensely hunted
1976 world banned much hunting
Polar bear population recovered and now at its highest in 6 decades
🧵 + refs below pic.twitter.com/8HWj3P0GJf
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) November 27, 2022
This is not to say people don’t go hunting for polar bears. They do. It’s just that they do it with cell phone cameras for Instagram posts while they take “polar bear safaris.”
Canada boasts around 16,000 polar bears, approximately 60% of the world’s total population. With as many bears as taxpayers, Churchill, Manitoba (pop. 900), bills itself as the “polar bear capital of the world.” It’s not unheard of to see bears Dumpster diving downtown. But the best sightings occur in the bears’ natural habitat, accessible by tundra buggy.
Equipped with five-and-a-half-foot-tall tires, these 40-passenger off-road vehicles are designed for circumventing snow and ice. Most tundra buggy tours are part of multi-day itineraries including accommodations and meals (from $1,000 per person per night).
Frontiers North, however, offers a one-day experience for $1,527. While Manitoba’s polar bear season is traditionally in the fall and aurora borealis season in the winter, this year Lazy Bear Expeditions is offering its first package combining both bucket list experiences.
The five-night itinerary (from $4,500 per person) also includes a helicopter safari and a stop at polar bear jail.
Pro tip: “Snag a window seat near the rear of the vehicle,” Kit Muir, Media Content Specialist at Travel Manitoba, said. “When it’s time to stop, you’ll be the first onto the outdoor viewing platform that’s at the back.”
Brave souls. As a Canadian recently discovered, polar bears are one of the few animals that actively hunt humans.
Two polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote radar station in the Canadian Arctic, the facility’s operator said.
The attack happened Thursday at one of Nasittuq Corp.’s work locations on Brevoort Island, Nunavut. The company did not release the victim’s name.
Clearly, polar bears are not to be trifled with. However, they can be adorable…and it’s a good thing the beasts are thriving. After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets done, polar bear safaris may be Canada’s only growth industry.
It’s good to see their numbers improving.
Thread: Mommies and babies.. 🧵
Polar bear.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/vKSZtfyQmc
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It wasn’t just a lie about the cause of the decline, hunting, but a lie about the life style of the bear itself. The idea it needed an ice shelf to live for example…the zoos don’t have ice shelves, do they?
Good times from the MSM; a mere 10 years ago.
Polar bears fight for survival as sea ice melts,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak0Zy6SLxPo
An Inconvenient Truth
As compared to Algore’s Convenient (and Very Profitable) Lies
— Guy really knows how to swindle the willfully gullible
That infamous power point slide reel that won him an Oscar. Gotta love the “climate change “ people formally known as the global warming club ; they do always get it wrong. Maybe that’s why Saint Greta has moved on to bring a Jew hater much more long term profitability in that cult.
Polar bears, ozone holes, rampant famines, rising sea levels, killer bees, COVID, insurrectionists, space aliens, Godzilla.
I highly doubt hunting is why the polar bear population declined. These creatures live in some of the most harshest conditions on Earth and most men can’t even stand to live in Arctic and Antarctic areas. Not only is the environment deadly, but it would be very expensive for hunters to hunt these creatures.
And trying to look up information now is hard because the envirozealots are saying it’s due to global warming.
We can never get a real analysis as to the cause of animals becoming endangered because the zealots either fall back on the “hunting” trope or the “global warming” trope. Deer is hunted far more than polar bears. Why aren’t deer endangered like polar bears are? Yes, some species of deer may be endangered but as a whole the deer population is fine to the point we have to have signs in places to warn of deer crossings.
Sometime in the future, politics will get out of the way of animal research and we can begin to figure out the actual problem of why some animals are endangered and others are not.
Polar bear hunting was highly regulated. Unlike the coastal brownies and even the interior grizzly, the polar bear will hunt anything. Classic stories of explorers letting Nanook know that the humans were around and the polars started hunting them… fallen into the trap of being shot. Of course, the best polar of all was Binky who mangled a tourist who crawled into Binky’s home at the Anchorage Zoo.
“On July 29, 1994, 29-year-old Australian tourist Kathryn Warburton jumped over two safety rails to get a close-up photograph of Binky in his enclosure. When Binky stuck his head through the bars and grabbed her,[16][17][18] she suffered a broken leg and bite wounds.[18] Another tourist caught the event on tape.[18] Binky kept the woman’s shoe for three days before it could be retrieved by zoo officials,[16] and the day after the attack, Alaska Star photographer Rob Layman took a photo of Binky holding the shoe in his mouth, an image which was printed in almost every press account of the incident.[17][19] Warburton gave the other shoe to the Bird House, a bar in nearby Bird Creek that burned down in 1996.[20][21]
Six weeks later, on September 11, Binky was involved in another mauling. Drunken local teenagers approached the bear’s enclosure, apparently hoping to swim in his pool, and one 19-year-old was hospitalized with leg lacerations after he was mauled.[22] The zoo did not confirm that Binky was the attacker, but the bear had blood on his face following the incident.[23]
RIP Binky.
I remember reading about a Polar Bear mauling in AK either this past winter or maybe 2-years ago, a mother and small child. I think the story said it was the first Polar Bear deaths in decades. I took the family to AK about a decade ago and was really surprised at how many grizzlies (and Bald Eagles) we saw. They are everywhere along the coast. Surprising there aren’t more bear maulings each year….zoos excluded, apparently.
“Why aren’t deer endangered like polar bears are?”
Because they reproduce like rabbits, and because hunting regulations severely limit the harvesting of does.
The climate cultists will just move on to the next tipping point or GCM generated catastrophe. Rinse and repeat.
LMAO.
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
So put your mask on, nasty boy
And stay six feet from me.
Remember the “ozone hole over Kenebunkport” nonsense during the first Clinton campaign? They really put that one into heavy rotation.
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