Dr. Susan Crockford, Zoologist, of www.polarbearscience.com advises us of this:
“We are now the polar bear” says Mann today (below) [a few weeks ago it was Patricia Romero Lankao of the federally financed National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado saying “The polar bear is us” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/24/climate-change-dangers_n_5019412.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular]
Scientists Speak Out: The New IPCC Report
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.N. group, warns that man-made climate change is already causing destruction around the globe. And it will only get worse unless we act quickly.
Leading climate and polar bear scientists share their thoughts on the report and the path forward:
Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor and Director, Earth System Science Center
What the latest report shows is that climate change is adversely impacting us now, wherever we live. It isn’t just the Arctic and the polar bear anymore. We are now the polar bear. If we are to avert increasingly dangerous and potentially irreversible changes in our climate, we need to act now. We must transition from our reliance on fossil fuels to alternative, renewable sources of energy that do not threaten the health of our planet.[bold in original]
Dr. Steven Amstrup, Chief Scientist, Polar Bears International
In 2007, I projected that global warming was likely to eliminate two-thirds of the world’s polar bears by the middle of this century. After making that point in a recent public lecture, a college student in the audience asked what would happen to the rest of the polar bears if we fail to act in time to head off that ‘mid-century polar bear crisis.’ My answer:
At that point, no one will be thinking about polar bears, because coping with and adapting to ongoing human crises will consume all of society’s resources.
The recent report by Working Group II of the IPCC adds emphasis in spades to my response. The hundreds of scientists whose independent research composes the IPCC concluded that:
- Climate change already is negatively affecting every part of the globe
- The frequency and severity of extreme weather will continue to increase as long as greenhouse gas levels rise
- Along with steep and rapid reductions in emissions, we will need to develop plans for coping with a constantly changing world with ever new and more difficult challenges
The good news, however, is that while the panel concluded the world cannot afford inaction, it emphasized we still have time to stop the worst effects of warming. If we do, we also are likely to save polar bears.
Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Deputy Chief, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The IPCC report is an enormous achievement and great resource for the scientific community and the public alike. But more than that, it provides a clear summary of where we are and what can be done. How we should act in the face of this information is complex and should be discussed at all levels. I hope only that those discussions are fully informed about what the science is showing—and that these discussions lead to meaningful action.
Dr. Ian Stirling, Research Scientist Emeritus, Canadian Wildlife Service
The recent report from the IPCC is stunning and should be a major stimulus for governments around the world to develop a global plan to reduce greenhouse gases … soon. One of the most important messages is that there is still time, but not that much of it, if the world is to restrain warming within manageable bounds.
The situation in the Arctic, though, is more dire and changing rapidly. The climate is warming there more rapidly than elsewhere on the planet, with the result that the sea ice is now disappearing even more quickly than once predicted by several different models. That is bad news, not just for polar bears, but for the whole Arctic marine ecosystem.
Why climate warming is so critical for polar bears is a simple concept and easily understood, even by children. Polar bears need ice to be able to hunt their primary prey: marine mammals, primarily seals. No ice means no ice bear. That isn’t complicated to understand.
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/news-room/pbi-blog/scientists-speak-out-new-ipcc-report
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Hasn’t the Polar Bear population been increasing?
I was just going to point that out, John–in fact the Polar Bear Population has been increasing faster that the human population for about a decade now, I believe.
A load of claptrap based on a theory that has yet to be validated after $100B being spent trying.
“…Why climate warming is so critical for polar bears is a simple concept and easily understood, even by children. Polar bears need ice to be able to hunt their primary prey: marine mammals, primarily seals. No ice means no ice bear. That isn’t complicated to understand….”
This is such BS. It overlooks the strong possibility that the primary enemy of polar bears, like all arctic life, is surviving in the extreme cold. Polar warming, then, might be a big net plus for polar bears, even if it meant that it was somewhat harder to hunt. And even that’s not likely — seals who already like to spend time out of the water knowing that it makes them more likely to be killed and eaten by polar bears will continue to some ashore **somewhere** at the ocean’s edge even if the ice decreases. In fact, less ice, same number of seals, could mean the seals are more crowded near the shore and easier for the polar bears to find.
No wonder the polar bears are increasing!
Statements made by alleged scientists in the sure knowledge that none of their audience will bother to check their claims against the facts.
I suppose pretending that the polar bear population is endangered is easier than finding evidence to support the case for CAGW.
My understanding is that the polar bear population has doubled in the last 30 years and the main issue with their numbers is people shooting them.
Surviving the ice age and the warming periods, mankind (and polly bears) are done in by a bunch of alarmist. Film at 11.
The boy who cried wolf is older than CAGW. But man may well be doomed. We do not seem to be learn from the past.
More like: the climate changing to a non-changing state for almost 2 decades is adversely affecting the propaganda.
“■Climate change already is negatively affecting every part of the globe” – This is a big statement which they can’t substantiate especially as temperatures aren’t rising and sea level rise is not accelerating. I guess a reduction in major cyclones and tornadoes is a negative effect, for them at least, because it means they’ve got some explaining to do.
“■The frequency and severity of extreme weather will continue to increase as long as greenhouse gas levels rise” – notice that they omit to connect extreme weather with temperature. So now we go directly from increasing CO2 to catastrophe without there being any need for temperatures to rise. What beautiful minds. Even Pauchari said in Australian press a year ago that there has been no temperature rise for a decade and a half so would the good Dr. Steven Amstrup please explain why the frequency and severity of extreme weather will CONTINUE to increase.
By some estimates, the polar bear has been around for 600,000 years. In addition to the current interglacial period, there were preceding interglacials at about 125,000, 280,000, 325,000 and 415,000 years before now.
So… how did the poor, little polar bears survive those???
Why are we being lied to?
Don’t shoot me, I’m a Polar Bear … should be the first honest line of defence given how their numbers have recovered so well after limits on hunting. At least a t-shirt.
What matters to polar bears is Spring sea ice not the September minimum. September sea ice extent up in 2013 over 2012.
We must NOT act now.
And the UK is picking up on the idea of “scientists” going on strike to protest noncompliance. http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2014/socialbrain/scientists-strike/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rsaprojects+%28RSA+blogs%29
I love how the language about lacking the equivalent of “Marx & Engels class consciousness” is modified by the phrase “at present.” K-12 education and higher ed dictated by Second Nature are certainly targeting that very consciousness in so many ways.
Stop driving cars thousands of miles away to save polar bears? Maybe throw a virgin into a volcano for extra insurance.
Mann isn’t the polar bear. He is the dumb-arse. Coo-coo-ka-choo.
polar bear have been traced back to bears in ireland at the last ice age. When it was much warmer in the roman period the romans were using polar bears in the arena so they were still alive then when greenland really was a greenland.
bears and wolves are extinct [thro man] in uk . Nothing to do with warming. People get twitchy when they are face to face with apex predators rather than watching them on discovery channel
The thing I want to know from these collected bozos is this:
If what we are heading for is dramatically worse than now, when, exactly, was the climate perfect..?
1972..?
1985..?
1850..?
Do tell…
Save the seals, burn some more hydrocarbons! LOL
repetition as propaganda:
10 April: MissoulaNews: We are the new polar bear
Scientist M. Sanjayan talks about his upcoming television series “Years of Living Dangerously”
Q: What do you think of the recent and dire report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that basically says no one will come out unscathed?
MS: If you look at the first IPCC report you would almost want to put the polar bear on the front of it … The good thing about this recent IPCC report is that it squarely puts the focus on humans. When you read this report you’re like, ‘Oh I get it. We are the polar bear.”…
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/we-are-the-new-polar-bear/Content?oid=1953710
think of “we are the polar bear” as the CAGW equivalent of John McCain//Bernard Henri-Levy/Ukrainian girl’s “we are all Ukrainians” propaganda:
Senator John McCain: “We Are All Ukrainians”
http://time.com/#10829/ukraine-john-mccain-putin-crimea/
Bernard-Henri Levy: Nous sommes tous des Ukrainiens
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2014/02/10/nous-sommes-tous-des-ukrainiens_4363410_3232.html
Huffpo: I Am a Ukrainian: Can You Be Viral and Anonymous?
On February 10th, a video of an anonymous Ukrainian woman hit YouTube and it’s gone viral…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-stambler/i-am-a-ukrainian-can-you-_b_4781793.html
anyone who has been paying attention re Ukraine would know that Ukrainian girl’s video has a very interesting back story that the alt media has exposed.
Am I wrong, or didn’t the polar bears in the distant past have to survive aperiod of ice free Arctic Oceans?
.” The climate is warming there more rapidly than elsewhere on the planet,”
That’s not hard, since the rest of the planet is cooling.
“We are the polar bears?” You mean I won’t be able to ice hunt for seals any more?
‘We are now the polar bear’……Oh Good, we’re thriving then?
Hokey analogy from the Mann. (sorry)
Indeed we are the polar bear and the polar bear is doing great. As the Inuit say it is the time of the most polar bear.
Stirling speaks with a forked tongue. He publishes that heavy ice years were the worse for polar bears and seals and then says “its a simple concept and easily understood, even by children. Polar bears need ice to be able to hunt their primary prey” But he has co-auhtored papers showing heavy ice is worse for ring seals. http://landscapesandcycles.net/less-arctic-ice-can-be-beneficial.html
The idea that an earth with no global warming for 17 years and 7+ months is a threat to polar bears is ridiculous. Polar bears are the descendants and relatives of the Kodiak and Brown bears. What the h*ll did they do to become Polar bears? They adapted themselves to the needs of the new habitat. And even if their current habitat should vanish(which is as unlikely as hell to freeze) they will pack up and move somewhere else or adapt themselves to the new circumstances. They did it before, and, they’ll do it again, if necessary. That’s real life, Gentlemen from the Ivory Tower of Science. Mother Nature knows better than you scaremogers!
Wow. I’m beginning to think these guys are mentally ill.
Robin says:
April 15, 2014 at 4:59 am
“I love how the language about lacking the equivalent of “Marx & Engels class consciousness” is modified by the phrase “at present.” K-12 education and higher ed dictated by Second Nature are certainly targeting that very consciousness in so many ways.”
There are competing agitators needing human fodder for their own movements: Gender ideologues and Multiculturalists.
And then, there’s the eternal danger that the victims start rejecting all of them and become self-actualizing.