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.
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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
Researchers were surprised several years ago to observe polar bears locating and eating foods in the wild that aren’t “normal” for them to eat. Why was this surprising? They’re polar bears. Bears are omnivores. Polar bears likely adapted to eating polar fare as they followed retreating glaciers north. It shouldn’t be surprising to see them reverting back to exploiting food resources they likely ate before adapting to a diet of seal meat when hunting seals becomes impractical. The fact they dumpster-dive makes the researcher’s surprise all the more surprising.
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.
My next door neighbor had some killer bees
Was pretty scary, had to get professional help
10’a of thousands circling his from tree, right next to my driveway
We’ve had hornets and yellowjackets for forever. But people forgot all that.
All of those are true except for Godzilla. Godzilla isn’t real, right? Right??
Funny, I was going to say the exact opposite, that they’re all false except for Godzilla 🙂
Always the contrarian, I often disagree with Milhouse, but dammit, when he’s right, he’s RIGHT!
He’s real. He just hasn’t been released by Wuhan yet.
Well, be fair: the famines are little behind schedule but they’re working very hard to make it happen.
It’s actually kind of ingenious — the government set out to end hunger and wound up creating more, so somebody had the bright idea of putting government in charge of creating famine.
Good thing they didn’t study Stalin or Mugabe…
American FARMERS ramped up production to cover the loss of 1/4 of the worlds wheat and 1/5th of the worlds corn production due to the war in Ukraine. The Russian and Ukrainian FARMERS are the real heroes. Look at all the “combat footage videos” freshly plowed or harvested fields, even in forrest areas you can see active logging operations still going on with piles of fresh saw dust. The cost of fertilizer in America went through the roof so many farmers are back on the brink of bankruptcy due to “environmental policy” … famine to follow.
All Trump’s fault, or racism.
Well, Trump created racism, so it’s still his fault.
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.
Lucky you
One of the major islands in Southeastern has 1 coastal brownie per square mile. Have I got stories!
“Why aren’t deer endangered like polar bears are?”
Because they reproduce like rabbits, and because hunting regulations severely limit the harvesting of does.
I’m sure it was, hunting
Look at what man did to the seal cubs, beating them to death on the ice, horrible, whaling, don’t get me started
Decimating the once millions of buffalo that roam the US plains, In A few years
Elephants, White Rino ( like 2 females left in the wild)
Man is a destroyer of animals
I still have doubts on hunting. Most of humanity has lost the ability to hunt, hunting is highly specialized, cost prohibitive for most people, and very time consuming. In addition the number of animals on Earth is in the millions. Animal life outnumbers mankind by several hundred billion.
Free yourself from blaming man for the Earth’s ills. Mankind’s impact on Earth is infinitesimal.
With modern weaponry it’s super easy to wipe out pretty much anything.
Even with modern weaponry we would have a tough time impacting wildlife. We tend to overstate humanity’s power.
As opposed to their natural life of mostly getting eaten alive by sharks …
Man, generally, cannot compete with the terrifying savagery of Nature.
If they’ve been hunting polar bears in the Antarctic either they’ve had no luck, or been way too efficient…
– inherit a billion dollars
– buy a decent sized freighter ship
– hire crew and some hunters
– travel to Arctic Circle
– capture a couple dozen polar bears
– put them on the ship
– cruise to Antarctica
– release the bears around native penguin population
– penguins suck at running, have never seen a bear
– Antarctic polar bear population explodes; penguin population plummets
– scientists baffled
– Would this work?
Deer are far more numerous now than they were when white settlers came to North America. For good reason. Their predators were wiped out in most areas, so today deer are a nuisance in many suburban and rural areas.
I think the major reason for so many deer today is the wildly improved habitat. States like Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan were clear cut in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: no habitat. Now the forests are back, and especially what are now suburban edge forests which provide exactly the habitat deer need. There is little food for them in deep forests. The edges are perfect and there are now a lot of edges. Even in deep forest every road provides edge forest.
So are trees.
And their major predators… humans have gotten lazy and go to the grocery store. Those populations would disappear in months in actual time of famine.
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.
You don’t hear lefties ever mention anything about The ozone hole anymore … That was such a farce. It was there the first time we ever were able to measure that ozone so they just assumed that it was unnatural. Now, what are the odds that something unnatural just happens to occur around the same time you are first able to measure it?? “Got to be 3 to 1, at least”
I thought everyone in Australia was going to burn up with 3rd degree burns and skin cancer within 5 years …
The Ozone hole was due to chlorofluorocarbons from refrigerants destroying the ozone layer.
CFC’s were banned and refrigerators and air conditioners now use a different chemical.
So the ozone hole has started to close.
One of the few success stories of environmentalism
planned parenthood just set up shop
All the polar bear is is a Cartesian bear with different coordinates.
Each time I see that stock photo of the two polar bears what goes through my mind is,”I tell you, George ,that fish was THIS BIG!”
There also have mental problems…bi-polar.
Don’t forget the Curvilinear Bears!
No big deal … they just have to change the image of the lone polar bear floating on the ice block to 147 polar bears fighting over a space on a floating ice block – “Global Warming is forcing Polar Bears to Fight Like Animals For Their Existence!!”
There were 10,000 polar bears when Al Gore was growing up in the 1950’s and 60s, today there are only 25,000 left.
The climate cultists I’ve encountered are total fanatics and are impervious to facts. This inconvenient news will simply be ignored and/or labeled as “climate denier misinformation”. They’re sad aimless individuals who build their entire identity around all this “climate crisis” BS.
Giving the polar bears their due, they really had a good run for a couple decades. For a while, they were to the climate movement what Taylor Swift is to the Kansas City Chiefs – Spirit Animal Uber Alles! Depicted as cute, cuddly and fun loving, they had their own Coca-Cola and Xmas commercials. But then, as it always seems to go with fleeting media fame, all the darkness came to light – ravaging predation, hunters of humankind, and especially pernicious Eskimo haters. Now, they can’t even get one of those sad-song TV ads where they’re shown shivering and starving, shelterless in the ice and snow, just looking for a nice home. Sadly, it’s only a short taboggan ride from glory to the gutter.
Humans are so much more efficient — people like Routh can run that gamut in just two years,