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2019-10-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change

[WASHINGTONTIMES] Nobody has done more to sink the claim that climate change is endangering polar bears than zoologist Susan Crockford ‐ and she may have paid for it with her job.

After 15 years as an adjunct assistant professor, Ms. Crockford said the University of Victoria rejected without explanation in May her renewal application, despite her high profile as a speaker and author stemming from her widely cited research on polar bears and dog domestication.

Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to "outside pressure," the result of her research showing that polar bear populations are stable and even thriving, not plummeting as a result of shrinking Arctic sea ice, defying claims of the climate change movement.

Her dismissal, which she announced Wednesday in a post on her Polar Bear Science blog, has spurred alarm over the implications for academic freedom and the rise of the "cancel culture" for professors and scientists who challenge climate catastrophe predictions.

"When push came to shove, UVic threw me under the bus rather than stand up for my academic freedom," said Ms. Crockford, who earned a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies, specifically biology and anthropology, in 2004.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top

#1 Well universities only want smart people and everyone knows that only card-carrying left-wingers are smart - ask any card-carrying left-winger.
Also publishing significant research - which supersedes publication of full professors - while being an adjunct - IS a crime.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-22 01:06|| 2019-10-22 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 "So these nonces think the white world is under attack from...what ? The 'lectricity ?"

"Not 'lectricity, mope. Hyuman innervention. Like their smoke machines and the phut-phut thingies."

"What's in it fer us ?"

"Look, these perfessers... goggle-eyed duffers all, they pay good dropski to not come out on saturdays, an' we collect a boat load a' fish."

"Grumphh ! Is rayciss you ask me. I can catch my own fish. Three barrels o' Guinness, I'm in."

"Hush, Bobby. Why saturdays then ?"

"They got some docu-mental guy flying in. Look... just disappear for saturday. Sleep in, help Bertha with the washing. Burny here plays dead for 'em for a few seconds. An' they leave us a boat load a' fish. It's a good gig."

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-22 11:42|| 2019-10-22 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 "Ye may talk o' fish and beer..."

Posted by Lex 2019-10-22 11:46|| 2019-10-22 11:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Should have declared there were more polar bears but they were sick from eating plastic straws.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-10-22 12:14|| 2019-10-22 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 "Hey everybody, we won! The Polar Bears are back baby!

We can close up and re-direct the funding....hey, what's this? Thought you all didn't like guns?!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-22 16:23|| 2019-10-22 16:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The fact is: Climate in Northern Europe was warmer in the 12th and 13th century than it is today. That's why Viking could colonize Greenland.

The polar bears didn't have a problem with that or they'd be extinct.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-10-22 16:27|| 2019-10-22 16:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Shhhh, European Conservative. They’ve erased the Medieval Warm Period, donchaknow. It’s considered a sign of denialist stupidity to continue to insist that history happened.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-22 17:16|| 2019-10-22 17:16|| Front Page Top

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