Caribou supposedly roasted by global warming found unharmed

Over and over and over again thankfully through the lenses of the world wide web, we are seeing the crass, gross ignorance of supposedly highly trained scientists increasingly on display.
Their intellectual and academic arrogance and the casual dismissal of those with on the ground knowledge but of course of inferior intellect compared to the highly trained scientists, are rarely believed or their knowledge checked and acted on.
Instead we are regaled with seriously bad science written up to give the most alarmist slant on the subject, all with barely the slightest underpinning of reality.
We saw this contrast with the bush trained Tree man during the debate on the hockey stick tree rings on WUWT a year or so ago where the tree guy just gave a simple, totally believable run down on how trees live, grow and die which made the CRU claims surrounding Mann’s tree rings look like pure garbage which they were.
I saw it when the El Nino was written up in the Scientific American in the very early 1970’s. All the anchovies had disappeared off the Peruvian coast due of course to overfishing with all sorts of scientific sounding claims of tonnages caught and how the anchovy fish stocks were decimated and would never recover.
Right at the end of the paper was a short comment from the author to the effect that the old fishermen said that it happens regularly around Christmas and they called it El Nino because of the Christ Child appearing then and yes, the anchovies would be back in big numbers next year and the anchovy fishing would be good.
Dismissed of course as that of course was just poor, uneducated Peruvian fishermen talking and they really didn’t understand about over fishing.
Nothing has changed in the arrogance of the academic class except thankfully via the net, we can now see the stupidity, futility and uselessness of so much of their claimed “research”.
With a world wide financial crash coming there will be a great weeding out of the science incompetents and much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the outer darkness as it finally comes home to many of these incompetents that they and their arrogance are expendable.

If only the aboriginal elders had made their statement in a peer reviewed journal they might have been believed.
If it’s not in a journal it’s not true. (If it’s not in, it’s not in lol)

Most of our urbanite warmer friends probably think a caribou is some kind of conifer tree and thus immobile.

A tiny story in a UK daily paper today:
“ESKIMO KNELL”
THE traditional Eskimo ways of life of the Inuits in Greenland could vanish by 2035 because of global warming, say scientists.
No references, unfortunately, and I haven’t been able to find a likely source. The 2035 number throws up lots of links to the debunked Himalayan Glaciers melting story.
Keep the scare rolling…

Mike Bromley
Surely the caribou can’t survive a 1 degree C change in temperature – after all, it is well known that they die off and disappear every spring as it warms up. Oh, sorry, that’s snow I’m thinking of…

Here’s another politically incorrect thing about caribou. You and I have around 1 Bq / kg of radioactive Pb210 / Po 210 (supported alpha decay of Po210) in our bones. This is natural radioactivity, associated with radon, although people wonder if this is harmful – after all, we are told there is no threshold for radiation carcinogenesis.
Caribou have between 500 and 3000 Bq / kg – i.e. about a thousand times more than we have. This has nothing to do with human activity, and does them no harm. (Its from the lichens that they eat in the tundra.)
So caribou are double denialists – both of AGW, and of the radiation LNT (linear no threshold) hypothesis.

I just sent the following letter to Quirks and Quarks, the CBC radio’s “science” show. While it seems neutral on most science questions, it continually pushes the AGW barrow. I feel that it will do no harm to try to steer them back to facts. (If I heard a promo for this Saturday’s program they are going to talk about a 10°F warming in the “antarctic, melting glaciers, etc. Probably taking the Antarctic Peninsula as “Antarctica”, as the CBC has done before (as with an earlier shameful program featuring Alanna Mitchell).
IanM
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Quirks and Quarks
CBC Toronto
Greetings-
Here is a science story with a Canadian setting, and it is good news. I
can’t wait to hear it covered in depth by Q&Q.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/24/caribou-supposedly-roasted-by-global-warming-found-unharmed/#more-51895
Best regards.
Ian L. McQueen
Glenwood, NB

Speaking of vanishing animals here is a story of why the polar bears are “Vanishing”

Polar Bear Conspiracy Theory – August 29, 2006
……..Last year, the Canadian Wildlife Service released the results of their latest three-year aerial study of the western Hudson Bay polar bear population. Essentially, researchers fly along the coast of Hudson Bay, shoot polar bears with tranquilizer darts from a helicopter, take measurements of body weight and general health, extract a tooth to age them, tattoo their lip or ear tag them and then mark their shoulder so that they do not handle them again.
Results of this study indicate that in less than ten years, the western Hudson Bay polar bear population has dropped from around 1200 polar bears to 950 polar bears. A 20% decline is definitely alarming and seemingly proof of the detrimental effects of climate change.
But, of course, there is a slightly different theory in Churchill. People up here are seeing more mothers with cubs (including triplets) and just generally more bears – this, of course, could be due to changing wildlife patterns but a lot of people up here simply believe that bears are learning to recognize the sound of helicopters and this affects the research results.
When I used to drive for Tundra Buggy, you could recognize when helicopters were approaching before any human could see or hear it. Every bear in the area would raise its head and some would even get up and walk or run away; quite confusing for the human observer, that is, until the helicopter appears about thirty seconds later.
I have also seen bears recognize and hide from the Polar Bear Alert truck and hunker down in a clump of willows when the helicopter is called out to relocate a problem bear. Many bears learn through only one repetition and many people up here think that polar bears have simply learned to hide from the helicopter. (If mothers can teach cubs to return annually to the garbage dump, why not teach them to avoid a dart in the neck?) ……
http://www.polarbearalley.com/polar-bear-blog-august20.html

Seems poley bears are not dumb animals. Heck if a darn sheep can learn to avoid a catching pen after getting its first immunization shot at two months, I have no problem thinking a poley bear can recognize the sound of a helicopter. My animals can tell the difference between the diesel in the feed truck and the diesel in the truck that hauls the trailer. And both engines are Cummins in dodge pkups.

I would like to believe that the “Climate Scientists” have finally jumped the shark. But political correctness demands adherence to The Narrative. None of these “revelations” will reach the ears of true believers. And we have a whole generation of children who have grown up hearing about the reality and truth of AGW in the classroom. The debate is over, didn’t you know? Try engaging one of these children in discussion. It ends with, “You just hate polar bears, you lazy polluter”.
No real scientist believes in consensus. No real scientist cherry picks data. No real scientist attacks people who disagree. No real scientist conspires to confirm preconceived or required results. Real Scientists believe in the scientific method. They embrace peer review and welcome dissent. They engage in the process of explanation of their theory and seek opportunity to share data with peers who can then replicate results and educate the “masses” about what is going on. If anything. But none of that is happening and the scientist involved are not interested in creating that environment of learning.
AGW is worse than religious faith, as it has damaged the reputation of real scientists, minimized and marginalized the scientific method, and artificially promoted the politicization of science. People who ask honest, inquisitive questions are shouted down and berated. People who point out inconsistency, bias and even coercion are ignored or attacked. And people who don’t adhere to the narrative are… well, stupid.
And we think a second e-mail dump is going to have ANY impact on this? There is way too much money, power, ego and prestige to turn back now, much less admit that there has been any sort of scientific malfeasance.

Yes, but what if sheer population pressure would drive an ever swelling number of polar bears, thriving in a slightly less chilly Arctic, ashore to hunt on the huge swath of tundra in northern Saskatchewan, causing untold suffering to the young and crippled of the recently re-discovered vast herd of northern caribou in an unprecedented blood bath? How the poor fluffy beings (of both kind) are supposed to be recompensed? Is not a joint bear-caribou arbitration tax is in order, running to no less than twice the amount of profits any evil venture on the face of Mother Earth may make?
Anyway, it is certainly worse than we thought.