Great News! But Where Is The News Coverage?
From The GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser
Exciting news about polar bears in eastern Canada: a new the peer-reviewed paper concludes that despite sea ice having declined since the 1970s, polar bear numbers in Davis Strait have not only increased to a greater density than other seasonal-ice subpopulations, but it may now have reached its ‘carrying capacity.’ This is great news. But where is the shouting from the roof-tops? This peer-reviewed paper was published February 19, 2013. No press release was issued that I could find and consequently, there was no news coverage. Funny, that. –Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, 10 June 2013
One of the interesting aspects of the current temperature standstill is that it persists despite several El Ninos and La Ninas. Since 2006 the influence of these events has been more pronounced in satellite data; El Ninos in 2007 and 2009-10, La Ninas in 2008, 2010–2012. These events have increased the ‘noise’ of the global temperature data in recent years. Removing this noise is tricky, but without it there is a hint, just a hint, that sans El Nino/La Nina effects and volcanic dips, the global temperature might be reducing. As usual, five more years of data will be fascinating to analyse. –David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 11 June 2013
Prof. Murry Salby, climate scientist at Macquarie University of Sydney, made a presentation in Hamburg on April 18th as part of a European tour. Prof. Salby is author of the textbook Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate (Cambridge University Press) and Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics (Academic Press) and is renowned worldwide as an astrophysicist. He recently caused excitement with new findings on the relationship of the 12C- and 13C isotopes and the development of CO2-concentration. From the findings he concluded that the anthropogenic emissions only had a slight impact on the global CO2-concentrations. They are mainly a consequence of temperature changes. This relationship is known up to now only from the warming phases after the last ice ages. Prof. Salby extends this relationship to our current climate development. —Die kalte Sonne, 8 June 2013
I did a quick post yesterday on the May numbers on RSS [satellite data], which fell sharply to 0.139C. The RSS figures are anomalies from the 1979-98 baseline, and I pointed out that, against a baseline of 1981-2010, current temperatures are now only 0.039C higher. I also mentioned that the 1981-2010 average had been artificially depressed by the two eruptions, El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991. Take the two volcanoes out of the equation, and it is clear that there is nothing unusual about current temperatures. –Paul Homewood, Not a Lot Of People Know That, 8 June 2013
When the Little Ice Age caused widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and disease in populated Europe some centuries ago, the enlightened ones blamed the climate-related misery and misfortune on the black magic of sorcerers and witches – who were promptly tried and burned at the stake. In other cultures, people performed rain-dances, human sacrifices, or other bizarre rituals, all in a futile attempt to appease the weather gods. Of course the victims of these rituals were often political opponents. Today nothing has changed apparently, as Der Spiegel poignantly demonstrates with its latest online round of hysterics titled Flood Drama in Germany: We’re to Blame! by Jakob Augstein. According to Augstein, today’s German flooding is a result of man’s sins against the climate. Climate deniers are mostly to blame for the “Katastrophe“.—Pierre Goselin, No Tricks Zone, 11 June 2013
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“Data please.”
Data that sea ice is a factor in polar bear carrying capacity? Do you really doubt something so obviously true?
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/polar_bears/pbear_sea_ice.html
Or is it the decline in sea ice that we doubt here? It’s so hard to keep track.
The Peacock paper can be accessed here
http://tinyurl.com/n9x4t9m
Ryan says:
June 11, 2013 at 11:26 am
“Data please.”
Data that sea ice is a factor in polar bear carrying capacity? Do you really doubt something so obviously true?
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My request was for Eustace to provide data for his claim that others are not providing data to support their claims which, oddly, he forgot to do.
Since you brought up an curious Straw man argument that I might doubt that, ” sea ice is a factor in polar bear carrying capacity? Do you really doubt something so obviously true?”, I’ll point out that there doesn’t appear to be a published optimum Sea ice amount for the optimum success rate for Polar Bears in harsh climates, such as the Arctic.
Could there be too much Ice, as perhaps there is in such places as Antarctica?
Polar Bears seems to have the highest life expectancy in warm zoos with little or no ice.
Ryan says:
June 11, 2013 at 11:26 am
That’s the warmist religion in a nutshell.
Ryan says:
June 11, 2013 at 11:26 am
““Data please.”
Data that sea ice is a factor in polar bear carrying capacity? Do you really doubt something so obviously true?
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/polar_bears/pbear_sea_ice.html
Or is it the decline in sea ice that we doubt here? It’s so hard to keep track.”
Please concentrate, Ryan! Trolling is hard, and you might have to share your spot in the limelight with the competition.
Should history repeat itself with a new mini ice age the media and public are also sure to repeat the cycle as well ? discus.
what is the casue ? well there is all the pollution ! now thats a theme thats running even now .
And who is to blame for that pollution? well we all know how the media loves pitch black steam pollution from cooling towers and this is in the good times !
So the answer is quite simple, industry will be blamed, the bigger, the more so, and with even better photoshops. Even if they have cleaned up their act the dwell time/delay curve will be used by the media as a sharp stick to poke them with as a way of expressing the populations pent up frustration, because “someone has to be blamed”, it does not make a good story if its just a natural change in the weather.
The best form of defence is then surely attack, and with the science we now have through WUWT and all the other brilliant contributors to the game its time to turn the blame to the wamists for wasting so much time and effort that could otherwise have been spent preparing for the new minimum.
regards
@Lyan;
Currently sea ice is at the baseline average, higher than the last several years. Maybe it’ll crash again this summer, forcing the Dear Polies to survive on berries and goslings, again.
Actually, these are mythical polar bears, the real ones having gone extinct during one of the many previous warmer-than-now periods, especially during the Eemian interglacial, some 110-130k years ago.
We know that polar bears survived an ice free Arctic. Here are some reasons why they have proved to be so resilient over the past 10,000 years.
Alternative Foods
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Swimming Abilities
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“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”
Will Rogers
Will Rogers also said something along the lines of, “Everybody’s ignorant….only on different subjects.”
Ryan, hang around on WUWT. You may become less ignorant on this subject.
(Sorry. I think I just fed the bear … er … troll.)
this could provide some fun fodder for trolling wiki.
WWF banner images with polar bears seem to get shared a lot on social media. Maybe it goes both ways?
http://image.bayimg.com/ab3ea3ba19143bdcf2e1be7f627a011758072782.jpg
From: http://bayimg.com/CAnEGAAeD
If sea ice was contracting, it would mean that the polar bears have to go less distance to get a decent feed of seal steak. Also the density of seal steaks on the edge of the sea ice would increase.
Feast time !! No more 200km trek to get a steak, Hog’s Breath is just round the corner.
Ryan, are you referring to “K” as “The Equilibrium Constant,” or as a “Strike Out?”
We need some polar bears down in New England, as the seals are becoming a royal pain. The only thing that eats seals now is Great White Sharks, which are becoming more common and also eat tourists. Therefore, if the bears ate a few tourists, it would be OK, because bears are much cuter. It’s a price we’ll have to pay to increase the stocks of codfish. (100,000 seals eating five codfish a day is 182.5 million codfish per year.) Seals aren’t so cute, when seafood is no longer affordable, and polar bears become cuter.
http://www.talkingfish.org/newengland-fisheries/booming-new-england-seal-population-creates-a-management-challenge
Chris B says:
June 11, 2013 at 8:19 am
“Maybe not despite, but rather because of declining Sea Ice?”
I believe this to be true. Hunting seals on ice is a two dimensional problem. Hunting with no ice and you have linear shorelines as your hunting grounds – the seals need the ice, too, otherwise they would have to conduct their fishing and birthing activities on land.
I’m not sure what CAGW proponents think the polar bear did during much hotter times in the Holocene and in warmer interglacials. They didn’t magically appear during the little ice age, for example, but rather are 600,000yrs old – and were brown bears before that. Hate to break this news to the bulk of alarmists and even to “experts”.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/19/polar-bear-origins-revised-theyre-older-and-more-distinct-than-we-thought/#.UbepLZycG7w
JabbaTheCat says:
June 11, 2013 at 11:52 am
Thanks JabbaTheCat. If anyone bothers to read the paper you find that polar bears appear to be ‘managed’. ‘Harvesting’ is allowed if populations are thought to require it for a variety of reasons.
God save the polar bears from conservationists.
Oh, I forgot, the conservationists also pull a tooth from every polar bear they capture. So if you hear a polar bear with a lisp it’s been ‘researched’by a conservationist.
To clarify my prior comment: Polar bears are cuter than Great White Sharks, (and also many tourists, but tourists have wallets.)
“Currently sea ice is at the baseline average, higher than the last several years. Maybe it’ll crash again this summer, forcing the Dear Polies to survive on berries and goslings, again.”
Well it’s a good thing polar bears reach maturity and reproduce in one quarter of a season…
Chris B says:
June 11, 2013 at 8:19 am
Maybe not despite, but rather because of declining Sea Ice?
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More likely no HUNTING allowed. Humans are the main predators of Polar bears. Also bears are feeding at human dumps and even invading cabins/houses.
The quote from Dr Murry sadly still needs reflecting upon….”It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with the data, it’s wrong!” Feynman
There are some who still don’t get it. Their imagination is greater and more supreme than truth.
Ryan says:
June 11, 2013 at 4:36 pm
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Did you not read any of those links and abstracts which Jimbo posted, above? None of those studies pierced your bubble?
I know someone posted this before.. but what the heck.
A daddy polar bear and a baby polar bear were walking across the ice and the baby polar bear said to the daddy polar bear, ”Dad, am I a polar bear?,
”Yes” said the daddy polar bear, “you are”.
After a while the baby polar bear asked again, “Dad am I really a polar bear?”
and the daddy polar bear said, “Yes, you really are a polar bear, why do you ask?”
and the baby polar bear said………..
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“because I’m b***dy freeeezing
Thank heavens for this. I heard somewhere credible that polar bears were driven into prostitution by ACW.