Tag Archives: Susan Crockford
LOCAL POLAR BEARS MAY BE EXTINCT IN 50 YEARS – BUT ‘THRIVING’ NOW: Norwegian Polar Institute issues dire warning about future; ‘denialist’ blog uses NPI data to cast doubt
Photo by Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute
Fundamental rule of journalism: be wary of a scientific study headlined “may” – as in “Polar bears may be extinct on Svalbard in 50 years,” according to a Norwegian Polar Institute press release issued this week.
So besides looking for “yes, but” qualifiers in the study, scanning the internet for the usual naysayers seems in order.
Svalbard Daily Planet for the week of July 28-Aug. 3, 2019
Direct flights to/from Greenland’s northernmost tip, summer hotel stays down for the first time since 2013, Svalbard Vet now offers 24/7 care and more recent headlines from mainstream local and global media.
Random weirdness for the week of April 24, 2018
Can you identify the location in Svalbard where this filming project is taking place (hint: think about how you’re accentuating the question before answering)?
SPECIAL REPORT: Polarizing polar bears – unmasking a proxy war strategy by online climate change denialists
By Paul Rosenberg
Senior Editor, Random Lengths News
In early December, a video of a dying, emaciated polar bear, foraging for food on an iceless land, went viral on social media. The video garnered millions of views on Facebook and YouTube. For most, it was a vivid signal of the future in store for us all due to human-caused (anthropogenic) global warming ― rising temperatures due to increased carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. For those who deny or minimize the existence of anthropogenic global warming it wasn’t a polar bear, but a red herring (“Propaganda,” one YouTube viewer called it) — no one knows why it was dying, much less if it can be connected to global warming.
That’s true, but also a bit beside the point.
