{"id":356693,"date":"2024-12-21T09:20:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=356693"},"modified":"2024-12-21T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:20:38","slug":"more-polar-bear-propaganda-from-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=356693","title":{"rendered":"More Polar Bear Propaganda from the\u00a0BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC has been running its annual \u201cPolar Bears Are All Going to Die\u201d propaganda again:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yg344zz1ro<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having been forced to\u00a0apologise<\/a>\u00a0 for lying that overall polar bear populations have been declining; the BBC have now turned their attention to the West Hudson Bay area around Churchill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a so-called polar bear expert, Alysa McCall, who is ferrying the BBC team around, half of the bears in the region have disappeared since 1980, due (you guessed it) to global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, Alysa is not a reliable source of information, because she works for Polar Bear International, (PBI), a lobbyist organisation. Their own\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0says they are a \u201cconservation organisation\u201d, and they are constantly appealing for donations, and publicity stunts like this one are crucial for their funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And her claims have claims have been demolished by the polar bear expert, Dr Susan Crockford. In her peer reviewed State of the Polar Bear Report 2023<\/a>, she inconveniently pointed out that there has been no statistically significant change in West Hudson Bay bear numbers since 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue, she pointed out, is that there has never been any consistent approach to counting bears in any of the surveys beginning in 1987. There have been aerial surveys, and very limited catch and release ones. Consequently, the margin of error is huge, and the amount of guesswork is enormous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the major problems is that most surveys have centred on the Churchill area \u2013 ( C ) on the map below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little is known about the areas further to the north \u2013 B and A. Yet, as Crockford shows, it is known that polar bears frequently migrate to find the best conditions. If sea ice conditions are not suitable in Churchill, bears would likely simply head further north, thus returning to the ice earlier in autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of the surveys made have attempted to take this migration into account.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As Crockford summarises:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJournalists go to Churchill and PBI provides the talking points. It\u2019s all just PBI propaganda, it\u2019s what they do every fall to generate donations, and the BBC go along\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The BBC has been running its annual \u201cPolar Bears Are All Going to Die\u201d propaganda again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":356710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"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":[691818389,691832191,691818087,691832190],"class_list":["post-356693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-dr-susan-crockford","tag-global-warming","tag-polar-bear-propaganda","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/08-polar-bear-eyes-2048x2048-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1uN7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":254468,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254468","url_meta":{"origin":356693,"position":0},"title":"How Much Has The Climate Changed During Children\u2019s Lives","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/24\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s time that schools taught children the facts about climate change, instead of filling their heads with scaremongering propaganda.","rel":"","context":"In \"Arctic sea ice\"","block_context":{"text":"Arctic sea ice","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=arctic-sea-ice"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/011a0b870b52c7de766d5a67b7f69b41b9eae55fa.jpg?fit=1200%2C540&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/011a0b870b52c7de766d5a67b7f69b41b9eae55fa.jpg?fit=1200%2C540&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/011a0b870b52c7de766d5a67b7f69b41b9eae55fa.jpg?fit=1200%2C540&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/011a0b870b52c7de766d5a67b7f69b41b9eae55fa.jpg?fit=1200%2C540&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/011a0b870b52c7de766d5a67b7f69b41b9eae55fa.jpg?fit=1200%2C540&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":341130,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=341130","url_meta":{"origin":356693,"position":1},"title":"BBC\u2019s Declining Polar\u00a0Bears","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/30\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"They have not even attempted to address my complaint, or their original statement that the species is in decline. 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