Phydeaux
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux I've read each IPCC report cover to cover, as well as almost all the referenced works - certainly more than 20,000 pages by this point. I've read the entire dumps from Climate Gate. I've read the (falacious) report on polar bears (record numbers btw), as well as reports on artic sea ice. Antartic snow fall. Radiation levels in ice and mud cores. Then why repeat so many provable lies? http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/about-polar-bears/what-scientists-say/are-polar-bear-populations-booming http://www.sejarchive.org/pub/SEJournal_Excerpts_Su08.htm http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/wildlife/polar_bear/population/ Once again, none of your quotes say what you represented them to say. In fact let me quote your third article: " Today, polar bears are among the few large carnivores that are still found in roughly their original habitat and range--and in some places, in roughly their natural numbers. Although most populations have returned to healthy numbers, there are differences between the populations. Some are stable, some seem to be increasing, and some are decreasing due to various pressures." Which is a statement I concur with. Nowhere do your sources site polar bears dying from lack of sea ice. Let me give you some additional quotes.:.. "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that the polar bear population is currently at 20,000 to 25,000 bears, up from as low as 5,000-10,000 bears in the 1950s and 1960s. A 2002 U.S. Geological Survey of wildlife in the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain noted that the polar bear populations 'may now be near historic highs." . Scott Armstrong of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Kesten C. Green of Business and Economic Forecasting, Monash University; and Willie Soon of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, published their findings in 2008, arguing that the claims of declining population among polar bears are not based on scientific forecasting principles. Scottish scientist Dr. Chad Dick, of the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, after researching the log books of Arctic explorers spanning the past 300 years, believes the outer edge of sea ice may expand and contract over regular periods of 60 to 80 years. According to his research findings, he concluded, "the recent worrying changes in Arctic sea ice are simply the result of standard cyclical movements, and not a harbinger of major climate change." Award-winning quaternary geologist Dr. Olafur Ingolfsson, professor from the University of Iceland, has conducted extensive expeditions and field research in both the Arctic and Antarctic. "We have this specimen that confirms the polar bear was a morphologically distinct species at least 100,000 years ago, and this basically means that the polar bear has already survived one interglacial period," Ingolfsson said. "This is telling us that despite the on-going warming in the Arctic today, maybe we don't have to be quite so worried about the polar bear," according to a report published by U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. If the world is actually feeling threatened that polar bears might cease to exist at some future point of time, why are they still being subjected to legal hunting? And even if only the native populace holds the right to hunt polar bears why is monitoring inadequate to track the hunting by non-natives? http://www.ibtimes.com/polar-bear-population-higher-20th-century-something-fishy-about-extinction-fears-821075
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