Expert reveals size of another Canadian polar bear subpopulation is increasing
In case you missed it buried in the details of my rebuttal two weeks ago about Facebook labelling a short PragerU polar bear video as “false information”, in his review of the video (18 May 2020)...
View ArticleSpeculation on ice-trapped whales: science-based fiction vs. dishonest science
Ice entrapment of whales is known to happen across the Arctic, including Davis Strait and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. How common such phenomena were in the past or might be in the future are subjects of...
View ArticleNot a myth: State of the Polar Bear Report shows 2020 was another good year...
The ‘State of the Polar Bear Report 2020’ is now available. Forget hand-wringing about what might happen fifty years from now – celebrate the fabulous news that polar bears had yet another good year....
View ArticleChoose verifiable facts over emotional narratives on polar bear conservation
“Polar bears continue to be described as ‘canaries in the coal mine’ for the effects of human-caused climate change, but the evidence shows they are far from being a highly-sensitive indicator...
View ArticleA fabulous new book in the works
Blogging has been slow in part because I’m working on a new book that I’m really excited about. At this point, I can say that it features one of the species pictured below. But which will it be:...
View ArticleBig difference between National Geo’s starving polar bear and Attenborough’s...
In Fallen Icon, I included a chapter about that infamous National Geographic video that falsely claimed an emaciated polar bear was starving because of climate change. Although I really thought at...
View ArticleFact checkers defend activist scientists because they agree with them not...
The so-called fact-checkers are out again trying to insist one side of a scientific debate is wrong and another is right because they happen to agree with one side. That’s advocacy, not science. Here...
View ArticleOpen response to a polar bear researcher who objected to me ‘attacking’ their...
Last week, I got an email from a polar bear scientist I have interacted with a few times. Not one of the big names but aside from that, I’ll leave their identity private. The email was polite and I...
View ArticleKing Charles & David Attenborough parrot WWF activist nonsense they naively...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was created in 1961 to raise funds for wildlife conservation and immediately recruited European royalty to help attract wealthy benefactors. At first it was a novel good...
View ArticleLomborg responds to polar bear abundance challenge
Money quote from Bjorn Lomborg’s response to being ‘fact-checked’ on polar bear numbers, Wall Street Journal, 26 January 2023: “It does more good for polar bears, and the rest of us, if those trying...
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