Canadian photographer's video of emaciated polar bear on Baffin Island goes viral
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Bill Nye has been debunked
9 Reasons You Shouldn't Listen To Bill Nye About Science
https://www.dailywire.com/news/1395...isten-bill-nye-about-aaron-bandler#exit-modal
9 Reasons You Shouldn't Listen To Bill Nye About Science
https://www.dailywire.com/news/1395...isten-bill-nye-about-aaron-bandler#exit-modal
Ecoweenie.... Love it!
Boomer doesn't want to answer the question re: how polar bears feed themselves in the summer months....... Undermines his entire argument and leaves him with no leg to stand on
1. Nye's background has more to do with comedy than science. National Review's Ian Tuttle delved into Nye's background and very little of it involves climate science:
After all, William Sanford Nye’s scientific bona fides consists of an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell, and a stint at Boeing. But you can be anything you want on television, and in the late 1980s, hard at work pursuing a career in comedy, Nye landed a recurring bit as Bill Nye “the Science Guy” on Almost Live!, a Seattle-area sketch-comedy television show, and a role as Christopher Lloyd’s laboratory sidekick on Back to the Future: The Animated Series.
Nye then leveraged that success into his namesake PBS Kids show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, which from 1993 to 1998 filmed 100 half-hour episodes, each focused on a particular topic (dinosaurs, buoyancy, germs, &c.) and accompanied by a parody soundtrack (e.g., Episode 75, on invertebrates: “Crawl Away,” by “S. Khar Go” — a parody of “Runaway” by Janet Jackson).
Somehow, because of this, Nye is now the go-to authority on exoplanets and dark matter and whether we are living in a computer simulation — and, of course, environmental policy.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/13954/9-reasons-you-shouldnt-listen-bill-nye-about-aaron-bandler
After all, William Sanford Nye’s scientific bona fides consists of an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell, and a stint at Boeing. But you can be anything you want on television, and in the late 1980s, hard at work pursuing a career in comedy, Nye landed a recurring bit as Bill Nye “the Science Guy” on Almost Live!, a Seattle-area sketch-comedy television show, and a role as Christopher Lloyd’s laboratory sidekick on Back to the Future: The Animated Series.
Nye then leveraged that success into his namesake PBS Kids show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, which from 1993 to 1998 filmed 100 half-hour episodes, each focused on a particular topic (dinosaurs, buoyancy, germs, &c.) and accompanied by a parody soundtrack (e.g., Episode 75, on invertebrates: “Crawl Away,” by “S. Khar Go” — a parody of “Runaway” by Janet Jackson).
Somehow, because of this, Nye is now the go-to authority on exoplanets and dark matter and whether we are living in a computer simulation — and, of course, environmental policy.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/13954/9-reasons-you-shouldnt-listen-bill-nye-about-aaron-bandler
Much like Suzuki I see.... A Doctorate in genetics (read: he studied fruit flies humping) and magically he's an authority in climate science.
I think I posted this one somewhere on CC a while ago about how work is related to intelligence
A students, such as engineers are really quite smart but usually lack basic life skills like how to gat something to market. So A students work for B students, who are fairly bright and have more comments sense and drive so for the most part make the world go round.
C students work for the government. For obvious reasons.
Everyone else drives a truck.
(sorry Boomer)
Suzuki preaches in favor of over population related genocidal eugenics.
("Mass murder" of all those OTHER so called "useless eaters") for you truck driver types.
That has changed. They have to complete a "capstone project" in order to graduate.
The Capstone Project is a two-semester process in which students pursue independent research on a question or problem of their choice, engage with the scholarly debates in the relevant disciplines, and - with the guidance of a faculty mentor - produce a substantial paper that reflects a deep understanding of the topic.
The money! Honey!
Carl Sagan,s retarded apprentice.
Like bear poop?
That bear is probably a hundred years old.
It is likely one of the most widely viewed images that is going to emerge from Canada all year: An emaciated polar bear digging through garbage that was quickly branded around the world as proof of the ecological horrors of climate change. Even Catherine McKenna, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, wrote in a tweet: “THIS is what climate change looks like.”
But ask the people who actually spend their time around polar bears — Arctic biologists and the Inuit — and it quickly emerges that all is not what it seems.
The bear might have been injured or diseased
“The video shows what appears to be an old male in declining health, but clear clinical signs of starvation aren’t obvious (e.g. convulsions),” said longtime polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher in an email. In a series of tweets, Arctic wildlife biologist Jeff Higdon similarly speculated that the animal could be suffering from an aggressive form of bone cancer. “That bear is starving, but (in my opinion) it’s not starving because the ice suddenly disappeared and it could no longer hunt seals,” he wrote, noting that bears routinely survive long stretches of ice-free water during the summer. “It’s far more likely that it is starving due to health issues,” he added. However, noted University of Alberta polar bear researcher Ian Stirling disputed that it was an older bear, pointing out the lack of scarring around the animal’s neck. In an email, Stirling added that it’s impossible to know for sure what caused the bear’s emaciation, but it “is what a starving bear would look like, regardless of the cause.”
Emaciated polar bears are not a new thing
A caribou or a moose is never allowed to get this skinny: Long before it gets close to starvation, a predator has usually turned them into a meal. But if a polar bear doesn’t drown or get shot, it’s most likely going to end up looking like the bear in the photo. “Polar bears, they don’t have natural enemies, so when they die, it’s of starvation,” Steven Amstrup, chief scientist at Polar Bears International, said in 2015. And, like many other bears, such as the grizzly, polar bears sometimes go through dramatic cycles of feast and famine. “Bears can respond to improved conditions: We’ve followed bears that went from bone racks to obese over a few months,” said Derocher.
Activists captured these photos
These images aren’t the work of a scientist, an impartial documentarian or even a concerned bystander. They are part of a very calculated public relations exercise by SeaLegacy, an organization whose stated purpose is to capture photos that drive “powerful conservation wins.” The group dispatched five expeditions in 2017, all with the goal to “trigger public and policy support for sustainable ocean solutions.” Terry Audla is president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, an advocacy organization representing all Canadian Inuit. In a Sunday tweet, he called the photos a “stunt” that represented a “complete disservice to climate change science.” SeaLegacy’s social media posts about the bear also failed to mention that the images were taken in August, when ice cover naturally disappears from many polar bear habitats.
SeaLegacy itself doesn’t know why the bear is starving
In an Instagram post, SeaLegacy co-founder Cristina Mittermeier called the bear the “Face of Climate Change.” Nevertheless, she acknowledged “we don’t know what caused this animal to starve.” In an interview with the Washington Post, SeaLegacy’s Paul Nicklen was similarly reported as having “no definitive proof that the bear’s condition was connected” to climate change.”Why he was dying, I don’t know,” said Nicklen. As Higdon noted, SeaLegacy should have contacted a Nunavut conservation officer to euthanize the bear and submit its body for a necropsy to determine the definitive cause of its ill health. “The narrative of the story might have turned out quite different if they had,” he wrote.
This isn’t how climate change works
Critics have noted an obvious flaw with pointing to a starving bear as the “face of climate change.” By the same logic, Canada’s many healthy polar bears could similarly be used as mascots for climate change denial. “Arguing (climate change) is real because of a video of one sick bear is like claiming that it is a hoax because yesterday it snowed in southern Texas,” read a tweet by Université de Sherbrooke biologist Marco Festa-Bianchet. This is why, when scientists conclude that Earth is warming or polar bears are in danger, they don’t use anecdotal information. Rather, they base their forecasts on reams of data collected over years. Derocher noted that Baffin Island polar bear populations are expected to fall off a cliff in the coming years, but it will take careful population monitoring to know for sure. “As a scientist, we look for population level changes. This video is at the individual level,” he wrote. “Of course, if this situation was observed over many bears, the interpretation may change.”
What everybody got wrong about that viral video of a starving polar bear | National Post
It is a scam.
And the fact that the bear is starving just PROVES there's no such thing as white privilege!
Arguing with brain dead climate alarmists just standing around waiting to be conned by scum like this is unfortunately, not pointless.
I suppose you think they are still clubbing whitecoat seals too.