Posted on 10/29/2018 10:33:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The widespread image of the polar bear and the threat of its extinction is perhaps the worlds most powerful image of climate change, but for at least one of the large environmentalist groups behind it, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), this image has become a dilemma.
According to UN scientific assessments, the polar bear does not face extinction, and the common understanding that it does now stands in the way of more nuanced communication about climate change in the Arctic.
When the symbol gets bigger than the region itself and people dont realize that the polar bear is just one piece of a whole diverse web of life in the Arctic, then it can become almost a barrier, Leanne Clare, senior manager of communications of the WWFs Arctic Program, told EU Observer.
What we are trying to do now is to help people understand that the polar bear is an important part within the region and that it is a part of a very intricate and fragile web of life in the Arctic that is at risk. We have to talk about that for whatever reason people have a huge attachment to polar bears, and then figure out how to utilize this attachment and get people to go beyond this and attach themselves to the Arctic region as such, she said. [ ]
The polar bear is not going extinct, Fernando Ugarte, a member of the UNs Polar Bear Specialist Group and head of department at Greenlands Institute of Natural Resources, told EU Observer.
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I too agree that changes will come eventually. We are currently in an interglacial period of a 2 million year-old ice age. Where I draw the line is that man is making enough changes to the world to interrupt climate patterns that are dictated by the Sun’s own weather, the rhythms of Earth’s orbit, and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation which have monumental effects on our climate. Cow farts cannot overcome a decrease in the Sun’s output.
Politicians and the Media always need a boogeyman to scare people with. Why? Because they don't get paid, if you don't need them.
I try to tell that to my kids but they are too young to have the long view yet.
Global cooling brings solid rain. It will crush everything.
or SUV farts or use of coal, oil & natural gas farts!
Agree!
No wonder the polar bears are starving.
It's a wonder that we all survived.
So lying is not a good tactic after all. Most of us learned that from our parents.
OMG!!! The polar bear may be “adapting”...
Seems the secular humanist climate alarmists don’t really believe in their own belief that LIFE writ large has survived and evolved by adapting to change. Instead their alarms plot the demise of life on earth.
And who now has rhe most ability to adpat? Humans; through the use of science and technology to adapt to and mitigate effects of “climate change”.
Alar, your forgot Alar. You remember the agent to prevent sliced apples from oxidizing? It was going to kill the nation. So far nothing the left has predicted as the “sky is falling” has come true. Shows you haw truly dumb college aged ‘children’ really are.
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