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2014-05-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Scientists Admit Polar Bear Numbers Were Made Up To 'Satisfy Public Demand'

[DAILYCALLER] This may come as a shocker to some, but scientists are not always right -- especially when under intense public pressure for answers.

Researchers with the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) recently admitted to experienced zoologist and polar bear specialist Susan Crockford that the estimate given for the total number of polar bars in the Arctic was "simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand."

Crockford has been critical of official polar bear population estimates because they fail to include five large subpopulations of polar bears. Due to the uncertainty of the populations in these areas, PBSG did not include them in their official estimate -- but the polar bear group did include other subpopulation estimates.

PBSG has for years said that global polar bear populations were between 20,000 and 25,000, but these estimates are likely much lower than how many polar bears are actually living in the world.

"Based on previous PBSG estimates and other research reports, it appears there are probably at least another 6,000 or so bears living in these regions and perhaps as many as 9,000 (or more) that are not included in any PBSG 'global population estimate,'" Crockford wrote on her blog.

Posted by Fred 2014-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 You can't bring yourself to say Lie can you !

Won't believe you the next time ... global climate change is a hoax too... liars.

Posted by Fester McGurque2909 2014-05-31 00:17|| 2014-05-31 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 25,000 alabaster death mobiles is too damn many.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-31 02:29|| 2014-05-31 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 "Scientist" & "public demand"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-05-31 05:50|| 2014-05-31 05:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, but she got her government grant, can attend conferences, and win awards. Why let truth get in the way?

Posted by ed in texas 2014-05-31 07:22|| 2014-05-31 07:22|| Front Page Top

#5 'Satisfy Public Demand'

translation - constant harassment from the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine for fodder to feed their narrative.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-31 08:27|| 2014-05-31 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I was watching this cartoon on history channel the other morning. Talking animals, submarines, you know the bit. So five polar bears were hugging on a lone bit of ice in the ocean. They were bemoaning their fate as polar bears unknown that our heroes had a rescue inbound. One spoke canadian naturally and said something like, "I can't believe I swam all the way out here from Canada, eh?"

So a polar bear on good dry land eating spring dead things just loads up and starts swimming north to find floating ice. It was some hippy light version of Lifeboat.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-31 09:31|| 2014-05-31 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Hell the white terror can swim for days Swks' and actually snooze afloat. They are bad juju, ask any nseal, ask a Exkimaux. They are worser than alligators because they are cute when young. El al Ligato is never cute, even when they are tiny lizards.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-31 10:05|| 2014-05-31 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 It was some hippy light version of Lifeboat.
:)
Alfred's head (only) with a nonplussed look on the ice foe.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-31 10:07|| 2014-05-31 10:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Crap it was dzny channel;
Good swimmers yes but can't otter a seal. It left the ayce Chinese buffet to go dumpster diving via 10 mile swim? After five minutes of pity polar pup party I was on the side of U-96.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-31 11:08|| 2014-05-31 11:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Sing along.

If We Had Some Global Warming

Posted by Squinty 2014-05-31 11:53|| 2014-05-31 11:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Ten good reasons not to worry about polar bears

Posted by Squinty 2014-05-31 12:01|| 2014-05-31 12:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Mark Steyn, call your office.

Posted by Spusose Darling of the Giants1586 2014-05-31 13:51|| 2014-05-31 13:51|| Front Page Top

#13 I was at Point Barrow for temp duty...don't ask, I don't know, maybe I was being punished for something. Anyway, they had this base wide alarm with a distinctive siren. When that alarm went off, you turned off the lights, closed the blinds and were very quiet because it was a polar bear alarm. Polar Bears look at a wooden building the same way we look at a crate of salt cod...a container of something to eat.

We were told a polar bear looks at a human as just another meal and will not do any cute tricks for fish except maybe bite your arm off as they tear you head off with one of their paws.

Polar Bears are bad dudes and the apex predator of the artic.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-05-31 14:03|| 2014-05-31 14:03|| Front Page Top

#14

You'll be one of the few who know what this monument represents Bill. Two great Americans from long ago, and far away.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-31 14:58|| 2014-05-31 14:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Yep, the polar bear does think you're lower on the food chain.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-31 16:04|| 2014-05-31 16:04|| Front Page Top

#16 And they have the jaws and claws to prove it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-05-31 16:45|| 2014-05-31 16:45|| Front Page Top

#17 My yoof swears the locals told him that the polar bear would stick his arm down the ventilation hole of an igloo and kinda shop around. It was understood that maybe something small or old might need to be offered up to the paw of friendship. Sounds like a story to scare the n00bs but who knows?

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-31 18:18|| 2014-05-31 18:18|| Front Page Top

#18 Shipman: at that point you'd have to ask yourself, what would Bugs do?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-31 18:50|| 2014-05-31 18:50|| Front Page Top

#19 But bugs don't wear underpants.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-31 19:48|| 2014-05-31 19:48|| Front Page Top

#20 Different Bugs. One that's a Wabbit instead of an Insect.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-31 20:28|| 2014-05-31 20:28|| Front Page Top

#21 If you want to get rid of the useless,
Polar bears will not leave you excuseless:
"Bereft of the toothless
Is better than roofless!
Those cold-blooded bears are so ruthless!"

Sez a carefree, careless caregiver, heading into an easy but error-intolerant stretch.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-31 22:59|| 2014-05-31 22:59|| Front Page Top

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