{"id":300912,"date":"2024-02-10T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=300912"},"modified":"2024-02-10T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T11:59:59","slug":"activists-just-cant-stop-using-emotional-blackmail-to-sell-the-climate-change-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=300912","title":{"rendered":"Activists just can\u2019t stop using emotional blackmail to sell the climate change narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From polarbearscience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though a big deal was made earlier this year<\/a> about climate activists not using polar bears anymore<\/a> to try and sell the climate change emergency narrative, they just can\u2019t seem to help themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it\u2019s not at all surprising that yet another amateur climate activist has resorted to using the emotional ploy of a photo of a polar bear on sea ice to win the\u00a02023 Wildlife Photo of the Year People\u2019s Choice Award<\/a>\u00a0sponsored by the Natural History Museum London (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Said Museum director Dr Douglas Gurr<\/a> of the photo taken by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani: \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His thought-provoking image is a stark reminder of the integral bond between an animal and its habitat and serves as a visual representation of the detrimental impacts of climate warming and habitat loss.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, the photo itself doesn\u2019t show an animal beaten down by a struggle to survive but rather a fat polar bear so confident in its environment that it is relaxed enough to take a nap. It\u2019s the photographer and his climate-anxious audience that perceives this to be a precarious situation, not the polar bear. The bear is fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barents Sea subpopulation, to which this particular polar bear belongs, is currently thriving<\/a>. Barents Sea polar bears are not slowly starving to death but successfully making their way through the challenges of Arctic life as all polar bears must do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photographer who took the polar bear photo was quoted in the museum press release as saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Whilst climate change is the biggest challenge we face, I hope that this photograph also inspires hope. There is still time to fix the mess we have caused.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no idea what \u201cmess\u201d he\u2019s referring to. Like the photo he took, visions of climate change disaster are an illusion perpetuated by the media and misinformed educators like the Natural History Museum. Summer sea ice hasn\u2019t declined in 17 years<\/a> and the polar bear catastrophe we were promised never happened. In case you missed it, I wrote a book about that<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polar bears across the Arctic are thriving<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I mentioned to Tom Nelson in my interview<\/a> with him last month, the work I have done exposing the failed polar bear narrative over the last 11 years has been incredibly useful in helping the public apply critical thinking to other, more complex issues, including Covid containment measures and the WEF climate change agenda<\/a>. That\u2019s the value of good science communication: it\u2019s beneficial in more than one specific context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the public can see that polar bear specialists have been hiding data<\/a> from the public and misrepresenting<\/a> research results in order to maintain their support of human-caused climate change, how much other \u201csupporting evidence\u201d for the climate change agenda is just as scientifically suspect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do yourself a favour and keep thinking critically about everything<\/em>. That\u2019s what will save us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though a big deal was made\u00a0earlier this year\u00a0about climate activists\u00a0not using polar bears anymore\u00a0to try and sell the climate change emergency narrative, they just can\u2019t seem to help themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":300916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Even though a big deal was made\u00a0earlier this year\u00a0about climate activists\u00a0not using polar bears anymore\u00a0to try and sell the climate change emergency narrative, they just can\u2019t seem to help themselves.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818608,691818056,691826841,691826840,691818434],"class_list":{"0":"post-300912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-activists","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-change-emergency","11":"tag-emotional-blackmail","12":"tag-wef","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Arctic.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1279&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1ghq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":430335,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=430335","url_meta":{"origin":300912,"position":0},"title":"Good News, CBS News Is Dialing Back the Climate Alarm, Media Matters Complains","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"In the recent Media Matters piece \u201cCBS\u2019 leadership in broadcast news climate coverage is chipping away under Bari Weiss,\u201d the authors lament what they describe as a dramatic decline in climate coverage at CBS News. 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