Attenborough fibbed about hundreds of dead walrus because he wanted what the WEF wants

From Polar Bear Science

Dr. Susan Crockford

As I point out in my new book, Fallen Icon, David Attenborough devised a three year campaign on the falsehood that hundreds of Russian walrus died falling off a cliff due to climate change because he also desired what the World Economic Forum (WEF), meeting online this week, say they want: immediate and drastic changes, supposedly to mitigate an invisible ‘climate emergency’ and other societal ills.

Some of the hundreds of dead walrus blamed on global warming. Basov 2017.

Despite the fact that walrus and polar bears are thriving in the Arctic, this fabricated ’emergency’ seems to be the reason that its new chairman plans to make the G7 into a ‘climate club’.

‘We will no longer wait for the slowest and least ambitious.’

Federal Chancellor of Germany @OlafScholz is calling for a ‘paradigm shift’ in international climate policy.

Watch the #DavosAgenda session here: https://t.co/m9KqGEILsv pic.twitter.com/0Qr8n586Gn— World Economic Forum (@wef) January 19, 2022

Let’s see how that goes for him. At the group’s last meeting, they seemed to forget they don’t actually represent world sentiment – or that even among their little cabal, not all of them agree that burning coal is such an evil that it has to end immediately.

These ideological elites simply can’t read the room – they just want what they want regardless of what majority of people want. Lack of success doesn’t make them stop trying.

Attenborough did it for three straight years, defeat after defeat, until the legacy he was after at COP26 died with his failure to make any difference at all.

His relentless messages of fabricated catastrophes, which started with the walrus deception back in 2019, cost him much of the public admiration he’d cultivated for years. I suspect it also contributed greatly to the public’s general loss of trust in science.

My hope is that my book about Attenborough’s shenanigans will open more people’s eyes about how this kind of political advocacy is affecting the great field of science.

Reviews of the book; Kip Hansen at WUWT and Paul Homewood’s Not a Lot of People Know That. If you’ve bought your copy already, thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy it. But please don’t forget to go back and leave a review on Amazon. Early reviews are really important for future sales and the more people that find out about this deception, the better.

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markl
January 20, 2022 2:05 pm

Attenborough is just another useful idiot unaware of being used.

Richard Page
Reply to  markl
January 20, 2022 2:37 pm

Oh, he’s aware all right, he just doesn’t care. As long as the money keeps rolling in and he gets his face on tv he’ll keep doing this. He’s no innocent victim, he’s a willing participant in the climate fraud.

MarkW
Reply to  Richard Page
January 20, 2022 2:50 pm

Not just willing, eager. Not just participant, leader.

Anthony Siebenthaler
Reply to  MarkW
January 21, 2022 3:47 am

He is a central member of the Optimal Population Trust, which is shorthand for the mass genocide cult

MarkW
Reply to  markl
January 20, 2022 2:50 pm

Being used got him fame and fortune.

Reply to  markl
January 20, 2022 4:40 pm

No, he’s one of those people who believes so much in the devil propaganda, that if it was the middle ages, he would send autistic girls to be burnt at the stake, and sleep well….

Independent George
Reply to  DMacKenzie
January 21, 2022 3:30 pm

Autism only existed from the early 20th century and was labelled in the 1940s. You can do your own research into its creation.

Sverre Munthe
Reply to  Independent George
January 22, 2022 3:08 am

Do you think autism suddenly came in to existence in the early 20th century?

Reply to  markl
January 20, 2022 6:58 pm

Maybe Leo DiCaprio will stop making those carbon producing movies and devote his life completely to saving the planet which is in the balance with only 9….8….7…years maybe left. Sir David and Leo and Prince Charlie…and Prince Andrew…no, Ex-Prince Andrew make quite a team.

Reply to  Anti-griff
January 21, 2022 2:56 am

No. LeoCrapio is the generation following Attenborough’s.

MarkW
Reply to  markl
January 21, 2022 9:54 am

Also, he’s not that useful.

Gary Kerkin
January 20, 2022 2:09 pm

And he doesn’t wasn’t to to face the fate of David Bellamy.

Mike Lowe
Reply to  Gary Kerkin
January 20, 2022 3:19 pm

…even though he and his BBC masters caused it!

Alan the Brit
Reply to  Mike Lowe
January 21, 2022 12:13 am

David Bellamy was a man of the people who didn’t come from a privileged privately educated middle-class background!!! He was dropped & blocked by the BBC because he rejected the propaganda!!!

Rud Istvan
January 20, 2022 2:23 pm

Bought it and part way thru. You are a terrific writer, as shown by Eaten. Will leave a review after finishing it.

January 20, 2022 2:23 pm

Learn the proper technique:

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Rud Istvan
Reply to  gringojay
January 20, 2022 3:41 pm

In all seriousness, I learned it and CPR. Had to use the Heimlich maneuver to save my significant other after she choked on a breakfast muffin near our North Georgia mountain home. Trick to remember: don’t be gentle. The first air expulsion has the most volume, so the best chance of dislodging the airway obstruction. Just make sure your clenched hands grasp is UNDER the diaphragm. Easy, since the diaphragm is anchored to the lower rib cage.

Mike Edwards
Reply to  Rud Istvan
January 20, 2022 11:22 pm

 Trick to remember: don’t be gentle.”

Indeed. Same applies to CPR.

Steve B
Reply to  Mike Edwards
January 22, 2022 9:57 am

You never know how much force you need to give until you have to do it to someone you love

Carbon500
Reply to  Rud Istvan
January 21, 2022 3:32 pm

I’m getting on in years, and have difficulty swallowing. It’s been investigated medically via gastroscopy and barium swallow X-ray, but there’s nothing that can be done.
I have to be very aware of how I’m eating – small bites, and chewed well. On occasion, my concentration lapses or I get distracted, I choke, and it’s nasty and frightening, particularly if I’m on my own.
If this happens, I immediately kneel on the floor and put my head to the floor in an attempt to get gravity to help me expel whatever’s caused the choking. It’s worked well for me,

Zig Zag Wanderer
Reply to  gringojay
January 20, 2022 4:36 pm

Two hillbillies walk into a restaurant. While having a bite to eat, they talk about their moonshine operation. Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough.

After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress. One of the hillbillies looks at her and says, Kin ya swallar?’

The woman shakes her head no. Then he asks, ‘Kin ya breathe?’

The woman begins to turn blue, and shakes her head no.

The hillbilly walks over to the woman, lifts up her dress, yanks down her drawers, and quickly gives her right butt cheek a lick with his tongue.

The woman is so shocked that she has a violent spasm, and the obstruction flies out of her mouth. As she begins to breathe again, the Hillbilly walks slowly back to his table.

His partner says, ‘Ya know, I’d heerd of that there ‘Hind Lick Maneuver’ but I ain’t niver seed nobody do it!’

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Zig Zag Wanderer
January 20, 2022 7:16 pm

Two blondes walk into a bar. You’d think one of them would have seen it.

Alan the Brit
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
January 21, 2022 12:17 am

What do ya call a blonde wearing a leather bomber jacket? A rebel without a clue!!! Oh come on, it’s Friday!!! ;-))

January 20, 2022 2:28 pm

“its new chairman plans to make the G7 into a ‘climate club’.”

Is that ‘club’ as in: a group of people with a common interest
or is that ‘club’ as in: a heavy blunt instrument

Richard Page
Reply to  Hoyt Clagwell
January 20, 2022 2:37 pm

Yes.

John
Reply to  Hoyt Clagwell
January 20, 2022 4:23 pm

its the club that killed the seals

David Ross
January 20, 2022 2:39 pm

Just bought it. Can’t wait to read it. Will definately leave a review.

Rud Istvan
January 20, 2022 2:41 pm

Thought it might be helpful to catalogue some other ‘climate catastrophe’ biology lies documented in essays in my ebook Blowing Smoke, just to show that Attenborough is in plenty of not so ‘good’ company.
-Red wolves threatened by sea level rise per WWF. In reality, ‘red wolves’ are a coyote/grey wolf hybrid hunted almost to extinction. The remaining ‘coywolves’ were captured in Texas, culled for obvious coyote traits, then bred in captivity until released into Albemarle Sound nature preserve—because there were no coyotes there to again interbreed with.
-American Pika threatened by warming, again per WWF. Pikas live in high altitude mountain rock scree. So thick fur coats to survive winter snow. Extirpated in some Nevada mountain colonies—hence alarm papers. In reality, they thrive throughout the Sierra and Rockies, and the Nevada extirpations were from summer drought.
-Fabricius paper on corals threatened by ‘ocean acidification’ in Milne Bay, Papau New Guinea. She even had pictures of coral loss over CO2 bubbling seeps. Except the 7.8 seep with no corals also bubbled H2S at 150ppm. As lethal as cyanide to marine life at that concentration—Milne Bay is an old volcano caldera.
-PMEL claiming the Netarts Bay Whiskey Creek oyster hatchery spat fail was ocean acidification, when in reality they were taking in upwelling lower pH ocean water, then warming it to induce spawning—while NOT also increasing its pH which happens naturally during summer oyster spawn in estuaries. Netarts Bay is not an estuary, but the hatchery there had to be managed as if it were.

Disputin
Reply to  Rud Istvan
January 21, 2022 2:25 am

“…H2S at 150ppm. As lethal as cyanide…”

And not just marine life. Life full stop.

Scissor
January 20, 2022 2:52 pm

It’s a good thing that walruses don’t brush their teeth, they would have to spend a fortune on tooth paste.

Tom.1
January 20, 2022 3:00 pm

I did buy your book; good luck with it. The great irony is that a thriving walrus population which results in some fatalities due to overcrowding, more or less, becomes a story about how terrible climate change is for walruses. It’s nuts.

Gary Ashe
January 20, 2022 3:16 pm

Attenborough is malthusian, and was a firm Eugenic’s fanatic as younger man, and still will be he is just smart enough to keep his mouth shut about it, instead he spouts climate doom and gloom to satiate his malthusian bent.

Just check it out.
One example here
The spirit of eugenics is still with us, as immigrants …https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.theguardian.com.icohttps://www.theguardian.com › commentisfree › 2019 › oct › 06 › spirit-of-eugenics-is-still-with-us-as-immigrants-know-to-their-cost
6 Oct 2019In 2013, the saintly David Attenborough suggested that it was “barmy” to send food to famine-stricken parts of the world because it encouraged population growth.

And a whole smogus board full here
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=david+attenborough+eugenics&ia=web

Reply to  Gary Ashe
January 20, 2022 10:12 pm

+1000

As I’ve been banging on about for years now

Attenborough is a member of Population Matters, AKA The Optimum Trust, an organisation, in my opinion, is just a front for racism and eugenics

The Optimum Trust accidentally published a spreadsheet showing exactly where the cull of the human population should be, not the whites, just those funny little black and Asians, not the Christians, just those heathen Muslims and Hindus

The link is still available:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100709235838/http://www.optimumpopulation.org/images/briefingfigs/opt.af.lpr02.tab2e.xls

Newminster
Reply to  Redge
January 21, 2022 3:03 am

Not just in your opinion! The eugenics argument is tenable (just about; I disagree but there is a case to be made) but it strays into racism very quickly because it assumes that white people are superior and therefore if there is to be a limit on population growth it is the feckless “others” who must be stopped!
in reality the planet is not overcrowded. I’ve made the point before that we could give every person alive one-quarter acre of Australia and have the whole of the rest of the planet to support them.
(As a comparison, the new-build standard for volume-builders housing development in the UK is 12 dwellings — ie around 40 people — to the acre!)
UN projections are that world population will stabilise about mid-century and start to decline around 2100. There are some researchers who argue that regions of the planet will be effectively abandoned by 2250 because there won’t be enough people to make them viable. (Personally I wouldn’t like to comment!)
Hans Rosling’s Factfulness is worth reading in this context.

Reply to  Redge
January 21, 2022 7:12 am

Redge

Attenborough is a member of Population Matters, AKA The Optimum Trust, an organisation, in my opinion, is just a front for racism and eugenics

David Attenborough has lived long enough that for a significant part of his life, eugenics was acceptable and mainstream. The last European country – Sweden I believe – to abolish eugenics based law did so only in 1972. I’m sorry to have to say this out of respect for DA but some of his quotations over the years swing close to eugenics, making it clear that he does really believe that the human population should be actively (and maybe selectively) reduced. Climate alarm is the natural vehicle for such Malthusian misanthropy.

Reply to  Redge
January 21, 2022 7:15 am

In refreshing contrast, Elon Musk is now openly saying the opposite that “there aren’t enough people”. Huge credit to him! DA should hang with EM for a while.

Mr.
January 20, 2022 3:58 pm

All these WEF wallahs are just rich (or on the public teat) old has-beens trying desperately to still be relevant in any way, shape or form.

I reckon the “most-uttered phrase” by all of them would be –

“DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”

rhs
Reply to  Mr.
January 20, 2022 7:06 pm

Did someone else lose their name?
I hate it when that happens!

Mr.
Reply to  rhs
January 20, 2022 7:46 pm

Yep, I guess you’ve heard the joke about the self-important guy who sits down in the wrong seat in first class, and when the stewardess asks him to move, he says – “do you know who I am?”

She jumps on the public address mic and announces – “folks, we have a gentleman in 2C who apparently has amnesia – doesn’t know who he is. Can anyone help him out?”

John
January 20, 2022 4:21 pm

attenborough has exceeded his use by date
BBC still using him show that they have also exceeded their use by date
The problem is with Boris been an idiot he has no ability to defund this defunct organisation as it would be seen by many that he was removing a challenge against him

oh well how sad

Reply to  John
January 20, 2022 4:47 pm

Defunct and anachronistic, like the US purportedly democratic party. All a bunch of professional liars and do-nothing-except-lie weasels.

Apologies to weasels everywhere.

saveenergy
January 20, 2022 4:33 pm

“Attenborough fibbed”
No, Attenborough never fibbed in his life …
He’s told blatant lies throughout !!

saveenergy
Reply to  saveenergy
January 20, 2022 5:35 pm

English dictionary definition of fibbed. = a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood:

Attenborough lied about –
Sea level rise
Walruses
Ocean acidification
Coral bleaching
Ice melt
CO2
Storms
Floods
Drought
Temperature
ect. ect.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  saveenergy
January 20, 2022 7:13 pm

ect. ect.”

You should see a doctor about that. 😉

saveenergy
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
January 21, 2022 1:03 am

dyslexia rules KO ¿?

RoodLichtVoorGroen
Reply to  saveenergy
January 21, 2022 4:33 am

Dysexlics have more nuf. 😀

MarkW
Reply to  RoodLichtVoorGroen
January 21, 2022 10:07 am

Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He lay awake at night wondering if there was a dog.

The police recently put out an all points bulletin for a midget psychic.
They were looking for a small medium at large.

I’ll be here all week, be sure to tip your waiters.

Richard Page
Reply to  MarkW
January 22, 2022 4:29 am

Did you also hear about the dyslexic devil worshipper who sold his soul to Santa?

January 20, 2022 4:36 pm

Naming names and telling dates, locations, and motivations…..wonderful detective work and research confirmation, Dr. Crockford. If any of these liars tries to sue, you should let them spend lots on lawyers, then just send the judge your 80 pages of reference articles. Reverse Manntify them….

Paul Blase
January 20, 2022 4:42 pm

“At the group’s last meeting, they seemed to forget they don’t actually represent world sentiment”
They know. They’re in the “elite”, don’t you know? They tell the world what its sentiments should be, not the other way ‘round.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Paul Blase
January 20, 2022 7:14 pm

Seriously. They couldn’t possibly care less what the little people want.

Paul Hurley (aka PaulH)
January 20, 2022 6:07 pm

If the climate emergency is real, why would anyone have to fib about it?

Reply to  Paul Hurley (aka PaulH)
January 20, 2022 10:16 pm

So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. 

~ Dr Stephen Schneider, Stanford University

MarkMcD
Reply to  Redge
January 21, 2022 9:12 pm

This was originally espoused at Margaret Mead’s 1975 “Endangered Atmosphere” conference where they decided it’s fine to lie if you have the ‘right’ message!

Jeff Alberts
January 20, 2022 7:12 pm

His relentless messages of fabricated catastrophes, which started with the walrus deception back in 2019,”

He did such things all though his Planet Earth series, so started before 2019.

DonS
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
January 20, 2022 9:07 pm

Spot on Jeff. Attenborough read the room in the 1990’s and saw that unless he got on board the global warming train he would lose his job at the BBC. Sad because his Life on Earth series in the early 1980’s, in part, was my inspiration to go and study science at uni. Having been taught the skill of scientific critical thinking by some excellent professors, it became more and more obvious to me that Attenborough’s grasp of science, particularly evolution by natural selection, was pretty ordinary.

One post here claims he is a fan of eugenics, I wouldn’t be surprised, the constant implications he makes in many of his shows that some animal or plant has acquired an evolutionary trait because they wanted it and had some control of the process smacks of the worst parts of Lamarckism.

Reply to  DonS
January 21, 2022 3:13 am

Sad because his Life on Earth series in the early 1980’s, in part, was my inspiration to go and study science at uni.

I empathise: he was an inspiration to me from the Zoo Quest programmes from 1959, and later from reading his books, so |I ended up doing zoology and then medicine.

How are the mighty fallen! The moral is to be ready to question even our heroes: Rolf Harris was also a role model for me in 1959!

Solomon Green
Reply to  Jon Garvey
January 25, 2022 10:05 am

And Rolf Harris did much less damage.

Bruce Ranta
January 20, 2022 8:00 pm

The ‘great field of science’ has been littered with manure for a long, long time.

January 20, 2022 8:11 pm

Interesting to note that Anatoly Konchev, the walrus and polar bear expert who advised the film crew has just posted a new blog on polar bear hunting of walrus, with photos documenting action in various locations including Wrangel Island and Cape Schmidt going back as early as 1993 and as recent as 2019. Warning: nature red in tooth and claw. In Russian:

https://panzer-bjorn.livejournal.com/82375.html

With translation:

https://panzer–bjorn-livejournal-com.translate.goog/82375.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=wapp

He seems to be finding ways around the confidentiality agreement he signed.

Vincent Causey
January 21, 2022 12:04 am

The fact that a forum comprising the wealthiest and most powerful people and corporations in the world are pushing for this so hard, tells you all you need to know about what a scam it actually is.

griff
January 21, 2022 12:56 am

Walrus haul out more now as the sea ice over shallow water recedes further into deep water, faster and earlier than before the 1980s.

The ice is retreating because of climate change.

So climate change IS causing walrus to haul out more and become vulnerable to stampedes etc.

griff
Reply to  griff
January 21, 2022 12:57 am

I don’t think, btw, that the WEF has any connection with Mr Attenborough or vice versa

Reply to  griff
January 21, 2022 4:33 am

I don’t think, 

You could have stopped right there, mate

MarkW
Reply to  griff
January 21, 2022 10:10 am

Nobody said he did. The comment was that they had common goals.

Disputin
Reply to  griff
January 21, 2022 3:31 am

Err? “…as the sea ice over shallow water recedes further into deep water”.

Either you think that sea ice is increasing, or that ice moves in to shallower water. WUWT?

Reply to  griff
January 21, 2022 3:46 am

Your bleating has no value without substantiating evidence.

“Walrus haul out more now”

According to who? compared to when?

“the sea ice over shallow water recedes further into deep water,”

Telemetry studies found walrus spent nearly 98% of their time foraging in shallow water no deeper than 60 meters. https://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca//arctic/Arctic58-2-192.pdf

As per usual you are clueless with no idea about the subject matter.

Reply to  griff
January 21, 2022 4:50 am

“The ice is retreating because of climate change”

Have you gone and lost the NSIDC web page AGAIN?

Can we add carelessness to your very long list of failings?

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/

Dave Andrews
Reply to  griff
January 21, 2022 8:10 am

According to Wikipedia walrus haul out onto land primarily for birthing, moulting, nursing and resting whilst they use sea ice haul out for foraging and predator avoidance.

Huge numbers of walrus are regularly seen by satellites at haul outs all round the Arctic so it would seem the walruses are doing just fine except when people with an agenda create a fraudulent situation that results in them throwing themselves over cliffs.

Roger
January 21, 2022 1:23 am

Attenborough – faking documentaries for seven decades. You can hear his 2013 interview/confession on BBC Sounds.

IanE
Reply to  Roger
January 21, 2022 10:23 am

Yep: sometimes termed a National Treasure, but really a National Treason.

Rod Evans
January 21, 2022 2:06 am

Old Boaty McBoatface just does not get how people regard him. Most who still watch the BBC regard Boaty as just another bought and paid for, (by British taxpayers) opinionated hack. If he had stuck to voice overs and left presenting to those who know what they are talking about he might be regarded and viewed more positively.

David Longfellow
January 21, 2022 5:20 am

A lying leftist. Who knew?
Everyone.

January 21, 2022 7:01 am

‘We will no longer wait for the slowest and least ambitious.’

Federal Chancellor of Germany @OlafScholz 

Well Olaf – Germany’s rejection of nuclear power means that Germany’s claim to be committed to CO2 reduction is dishonest and false. No-one seriously concerned about CO2 can be anti-nuclear. It’s a bit like being a flat-earth believing satellite engineer – doesn’t really add up.

January 21, 2022 7:57 am

Not sure why my post with an update of the blog by Anatoly Kochnev hasn’t made it. He was after all the person who advised the film crew. He went through some tough times when he realised how he had been taken advantage of, and now seems to be doing his bit to set the record straight with scientific fact.

Reply to  It doesn't add up...
January 21, 2022 8:28 am

I have a quite moderate post (as compared to some that get published without moderation) in the “sin bin”. Not sure why.

Herrnwingert
January 22, 2022 6:25 am

This fake news is also covered by Patrick Moore in chapter 11 of his book Fake Invisible Catastrophes.

January 23, 2022 12:17 am

Attenborough  is in charge of UK EV car rollout, and also champions Gauers Gorillas in the Congo. Problem is, they are threatened by mining, mining for the cobalt needed for EV car batteries.

The guy is even too stupid to realise his own hypocrisy,.

BERNARD STEPHEN FITZGERALD
January 28, 2022 10:58 am

He was guilty of splicing stock footage into his nature shows and passing them off as boots on the ground footage years ago but the public can’t get past his avuncular image . The man is an attention seeking fraud