Send more climatologists! They are delicious!...............
Posted on 10/24/2019 9:24:57 AM PDT by DeweyCA
Dr. Susan Crockford is one of the world’s leading experts on polar bears. As such, she has repeatedly reported the inconvenient fact that polar bears are thriving, with their populations burgeoning. Why is this fact inconvenient? Because climate change activists have chosen polar bears–considered to be cute by people who don’t have to deal with them–as a propaganda tool.
We have quoted Dr. Crockford’s work a number of times: here, here, here, on walruses, here, and more. Crockford has written a book called The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened. To my knowledge, no competent scientist has taken issue with her work, and the Inuit, who live in proximity to polar bears, testify to the problems caused by their growing numbers.
But in today’s academia, it is not enough to be right. In fact, it can be perilous to be right, if the truths one tells are inconvenient for the Left. CFACT reports that Dr. Crockford has been fired (actually, non-renewed) by the University of Victoria:
It appears that telling the truth about polar bears made Dr. Susan Crockford, a respected, published Canadian zoologist, the victim of an ideological purge. First she was removed from the University of Victoria’s speakers bureau, and then not renewed to her position as an adjunct professor.
“The loss of adjunct status,” Crockford wrote, “will primarily prevent me from continuing scientific research on speciation and domestication mechanisms in evolution: without an academic affiliation I will be unable to secure research funds or academic collaborations.”
Of course, anyone who spends her time in the far North studying polar bears and other creatures is not likely to be a wimp.
“What a lack of academic affiliation has not done, and cannot do,” Crockford continued, “is stop me from investigating and commenting on the failures and inconsistencies of science that I see in published polar bear research papers and reflected in public statements made by polar bear specialists. I am still a former adjunct professor and I will not be silenced.”
As CFACT points out, the fact that Crockford won’t shut up doesn’t mean that her loss of academic affiliation does no harm:
They know they can’t silence Susan Crockford, but know also that harming her creates an atmosphere of fear that most others lack the courage to confront.
That is the Left’s strategy, and the Left is now in control of most of our institutions.
CFACT points out a comment on its own forum by a liberal who boasts of getting two academics fired:
You will be pleased to know that in the past two years I successfully had two deniers fired (forced resignations) from their university positions. One was a prolific WUWT [Watts Up With That] contributor. I discovered a nice twist to the freedom of speech tale. You can say almost anything except yell fire in a crowded room and are free to make a fool of oneself but can’t invoke one’s pedigree to do so i.e. you can state your doctorate or disciplines, but not your college, professional body memberships and imply they agree. So that’s how I’ve been knocking them off by going to their employer, professional registration, professional memberships or their alma mater. I have three scalps lined up now — infant stage But they will collapse like dominoes.
While liberals collect the “scalps” of those who fail to toe the party line, conservatives continue to play by gentlemanly rules. This asymmetry is one of the dominant political facts of our time.
Yeah, the bears wouldn’t have been as vicious as what the true believers will bring on her for DARING to call them out.
Send more climatologists! They are delicious!...............
Though they are both false prophets as well as being false professors, who will bring them to the emperor-has-no-clothes test? Where "publish-or-perish" is the test for employability, who is it that will review their research papers and find them not worth the ink (or toner cartridges) they will consume. It is an arena where he that speaks loudest speaks best, not he that speaks truth to power.
The atheistic liars who have ensconced themselves across the breadth of university faculty chairs are a form of academic MRSA that cannot be eradicated without amputating the whole system of indoctrinating rather than educating their replacements.
This is why Crockford and keen truth-seekers like her suffer without relief or retribution.
I hate leftards.
Ursa martimus(’’the swimming bear’’) largest land predator on Earth. Males can weigh in at 1,500 pounds. Can stand to a height of 12 feet on it’s hind legs. Has a mean disposition. Hiya pal! What’s for lunch? Looks like a seal. Good huh? Well, be seein’ ya!
So cute! I could just hug them!
There are some interesting comments here:
I especially liked that a first-year masters student in wildlife biology, Ron Kichurchak, makes an unhinged, ad hominen attack on the former adjunct professor who has published papers in Science and PLoS One, two of the most prestigious scientific journals.
Steven Amstrup and other U.S. Geological Survey scientists have predicted two-thirds of the world's polar bears may disappear by 2050, based on moderate projections for the shrinking of summer sea ice caused by climate change,[90][188] though the validity of this study has been debated.[195][196] The bears could disappear from Europe, Asia, and Alaska, and be depleted from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and areas off the northern Greenland coast. By 2080, they could disappear from Greenland entirely and from the northern Canadian coast, leaving only dwindling numbers in the interior Arctic Archipelago.[90]
However, in contrast to the typical sky-is-falling liberal hype,
Data from conservation groups and the government show that the polar bear population is roughly five times what it was in the 1950s and three or four times what it was in the 1970s when polar bears became protected under international treaty.
In fact, though polar bears were placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act in 2008 over concerns that its Arctic hunting grounds were being reduced by a warming climate, the polar bear population has been stable for the last three decades.
In 1984, the polar bear population was estimated at 25,000. In 2008, when polar bears were designated as a protected species, The New York Times noted that number remained unchanged: “There are more than 25,000 bears in the Arctic, 15,500 of which roam within Canada’s territory.”
New estimates from the International Union for Conservation of Nature show a mid-point estimate of 26,500 (range: 22,000 to 31,000) in 2015. In The State of the Polar Report 2018, zoologist Susan J. Crockford says updates to IUCN data put the new global mid-point estimate at more than 30,000.
Even accepting the lower figure, the estimate is the highest since the polar bear became internationally protected in 1973. - https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-polar-bear-population-is-declining/
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