Polar bear conservation group blasts Obama for climate alarmism: ‘Sensationalized nonsense’
The Obama administration warned Monday that polar bears may disappear unless something is done about climate change, despite recent research indicating that the bears are actually thriving.
In its final Conservation Management Plan, the Fish and Wildlife Service painted a grim picture for the future of the massive Arctic-dwelling mammal, warning that its fate will be determined “by our willingness and ability to address climate change.”
“The current global polar bear population is estimated to be 26,000,” said the FWS press release. “If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the current rates throughout the 21st century, polar bears will likely disappear from much of their present-day range.”
The announcement prompted pushback from zoologist Susan J. Crockford, founder of the Polar Bear Science website, who blasted the service for igniting a rash of “sensationalized nonsense” by fueling alarmist media reports.
Since 2007, “summer sea ice coverage has declined to levels their sea ice colleagues said would not occur until 2050 yet 2/3 of the world’s polar bears did not disappear as [U.S. Geological Service] biologists predicted,” Ms. Crockford said in a post.
The polar bear was listed as threatened in 2008 as a result of declining Arctic sea ice, but its population has proved remarkably resilient, although the Fish and Wildlife Service plan doesn’t mention that, she said.
“They also don’t tell folks that the recent decline in population size recorded for the Southern Beaufort Sea was caused by thick spring sea ice in 2004-2006, not reduced summer sea ice,” said Ms. Crockford, an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature pegs the polar bear population at between 22,000 and 31,000, which she called “the highest estimate in 50 years.”
Recent studies have shown increases in some of the 19 Arctic polar-bear populations. In 2013, the FWS reported the Chukchi Sea population in Alaska was doing “quite well,” while the Norwegian Polar Institute found in 2015 that the Barents Sea polar bears had risen by 42 percent since 2004.
Meanwhile, wildlife groups criticized the federal plan for failing to mandate large-scale U.S. reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions in order to combat climate change.
“Polar bears are starving and drowning as their sea ice melts away, but this toothless plan shrugs off the one solution that will
Greenland Ice Growth Continues To Blow Away All Records
Greenland is blowing away all records for ice gain.
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI
This is what Greenland looked like a month ago. I didn’t see anything unraveling.
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REPORT ON ARCTIC SEA ICE UNLEASHES SHOCK WAVES
Marc Morano of Climate Depot warned the intent now is not to discuss, investigate or research, but to send “a chilling message to doubters and skeptics” to be silent.
Morano said his movie, “Climate Hustle,” shows “the climate establishment comparing climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers.”
“It’s all an attempt to silence the debate, to silence any science and go right to centralized planning,” he said. “That’s what this is all about. The U.N. has admitted their goal is wealth redistribution and it doesn’t have anything to do with environmental policy.”
The solution offered by the climate establishment, he said, is always the same: “more centralized government.”
He said the result will be tragic for large populations who are being denied access to pumped water, power and heat because of antagonism to carbon-based fuels.
“The reason we know there’s a hustle is their predictions have failed to come true, on a whole host of issues,” Morano said. “That’s why they now want to stop the debate, suppress debate.”…
Greenland Enters 2017 Adding Extraordinary Amounts Of Ice And Snow
…Arctic Sea Ice The Same Thickness As 1940
In 1940, Arctic sea ice was two meters thick.
Arctic sea ice is now two meters thick.
All of the official fake news agencies and fake government agencies have been claiming that Arctic sea ice is getting thinner.
A Bush Administration official said last week that all the thick multi-year ice is gone.
Changes in Arctic Ice Patterns Could Be Catastrophic | At the Edge | US News
As is almost always the case with government officials and journalists, they were lying. More than half of the Arctic is covered with multi-year ice.
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Polar bear habitat message for the year end: 2016 Arctic ice extent same as 2010
According to NSIDC daily sea ice interactive graph, there was ever so slightly more ice on 31 Dec 2016 than on that date in 2010. However, the corresponding ice maps show just how differently that ice was distributed.
Recall that in 2010, there was no huge die-off of polar bears attributed to reduced amounts of sea ice in the fall (or to reduced ice in summer, for that matter) because there was no catastrophic die-off at all.
NSIDC Masie ice charts show just how different the distribution of ice was in 2010 at 31 December compared to 2016 at the end of the year (2010, Day 365).
Here is 2010 at day 365 (extent 12.9 mkm2):
For some reason, Masie ice images were unavailable for the last day of the year but below is the one for the next day (2017, Day 1), 1 January 2017 (also 12.9 mkm2):
Compared to the 2010 map above, there is much more ice this year in eastern Canada than in 2010, much less in the Barents Sea north of Norway.
Take-home message: Absolute extent numbers don’t tell the whole story about polar bear habitat changes from year to year.
…Media hyped ‘Heatwaves’ in Arctic have been occurring since 1930s
Heatwaves in the Arctic have been occurring for as long as people have been visiting there.
Actress Sunburned In Heat Wave At North Pole
The Phoenix – Google News Archive Search
Ice at the pole is currently two meters thick, the same as it was in 1940.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/thk.uk.php
In 1940, the ice at the pole was also two meters thick.
The fake news press has been pulling this same Arctic scam for as long as anyone can remember. Arctic conditions are the same as they were 60 years ago, and they have been predicting an ice-free Arctic for as long as anyone can remember.
The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times
Actress Sunburned In Heat Wave At North Pole
The Phoenix – Google News Archive Search
Ice at the pole is currently two meters thick, the same as it was in 1940.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/thk.uk.php
In 1940, the ice at the pole was also two meters thick.
The fake news press has been pulling this same Arctic scam for as long as anyone can remember. Arctic conditions are the same as they were 60 years ago, and they have been predicting an ice-free Arctic for as long as anyone can remember.
The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times…
Media Arctic warmth fizzle: Despite predictions, Temps never got higher than minus 10C – ‘If You’re Going To Arctic, Don’t Bother Packing That Bikini’
Temperatures at the North Pole could reach freezing point, claimed the BBC on Saturday.
In reality temperatures never got higher than about minus 10C. While this was still less cold than usual, it was due to an incursion of milder air from the Atlantic across a very narrow front.
Most of the Arctic was around average at between minus 30C and 40C.
http://old.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsavnnh.html
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/weather/arcticweather.uk.php
Tone Heller does his usual thorough job debunking the scare stories, and explaining that it is simply a weather event which has regularly happened before.
Worth a read here.…
Siberia Sizzles At 58C Below
20 Dec 2016 – Heavy snowfall in Saudi Arabia – Such snow not seen for many years. Temperature below zero.
https://www.iceagenow.info/camels-standing-snow-several-videos/#more-19496
19 Dec 2016 – Snow in the Sahara for the first time since 1979
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/745567/Snow-Sahara-Desert-first-time-37-years-Algeria
18 Dec 2016 – Record low temperatures have been recorded in cities across South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota
NYT: Global Warming Is Turning Polar Bears Into ‘Refugees’
The New York Times believes Arctic-dwelling polar bears are “climate refugees,” fleeing for their lives from melting sea ice caused by man-made global warming.
Polar bears are migrating away from their traditional hunting grounds and toward areas in Canada, Russia, and Alaska, The NYT wrote Sunday, because sea ice is melting at a record pace.
Polar bears may seem healthy and at ease in their environments, the paper noted, but those that travel inland “are climate refugees, on land because the sea ice they rely on for hunting seals is receding.”
Their extinction does not appear to be as eminent as The NYT implies
Environmentalists have worked for years to place polar bears on the CITES’ “Appendix I” list, which includes animals considered threatened by immediate extinction.
But regulators have continued to balk at the campaign earlier this year, when they announced polar bears would remain on “Appendix II”– a list declaring a species to be endangered but otherwise fine for the time being.
[dcquiz] Polar bears are protected by the Endangered Species Act because they could potentially be harmed by global warming.
The NYT even admits that the species may not be that close to extinction, as only three groups of the 19 polar bear populations in the Arctic are considered at risk.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/18/nyt-global-warming-is-turning-polar-bears-into-refugees/…