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Friday, 16 February 2024
POLAR BEAR CLIMATE PROPAGANDA REBUTTED
Here is a good piece by Dr Susan Crockford, the polar bear expert, who lifts the lid on the way climate activists use the old "polar bears are dying because of climate change" story:
It is clear and undeniable that there is ice loss in the artic sea. Polar bears rely on the ice for hunting and resting to feed themselves and their cubs. Depending on the area of the artic, the greater the loss of sea ice, the more the bears had to adapt from the loss of their hunting habitat. Less eating seals and more of eating something else. Not only has this effected polar bears, the loss of sea ice has effected walruses who also use the ice to hunt, fish and rest.
Climate change is having a clear negative impact on polar bears, say scientists, making it harder for them to hunt, mate and breed. Polar bears live in 19 key regions, all of which have experienced some degree of ice loss. Carbon Brief speaks to experts and scientists from around the world to determine what a changing climate means for polar bears.
Afortunadamente, los osos polares saben que están viviendo en el contexto geológico del clima terrestre de un "Ice House", por lo que las idas y venidas cíclicas del hielo marino ártico no les preocupa. Y otra cosa, estamos bajo fluctuaciones climáticas que sin duda, mirado desde el siglo XXII para los que estén allí, dirán que hubo variabilidad climática por la actividad solar. Cambio Climático es un tema geológico y en ese contexto debe analizarse.
Fortunately, polar bears know they're living in the geological context of an "Ice House" terrestrial climate, so the cyclical comings and goings of Arctic sea ice don't worry them. And another thing, we are under climatic fluctuations that without a doubt, looked at from the 22nd century for those who are there, will say that there was climate variability due to solar activity. Climate change is a geological issue and must be analysed in that context.
I put your response into google translate and this is what google said you said up above. Down below is the subject of did the sun cause global warming on earth. The basic answer is no. The increasing GHGs emitted from our society did it. I believe you can find this site in the Spanish version also.
El calentamiento global del siglo XX terminó en la década de los 90; aproximadamente desde 1998 vivimos en una inercia térmica, ya que el calentamiento se detuvo. El clima de las ciudades, llamado Clima Urbano, no debe ser confundido con la variabilidad natural del clima. El ser humano no tiene la capacidad de producir ni calentamientos ni enfriamientos a nivel de fuerzas orbitales y el tema de los cambios cíclicos que ha sufrido la Tierra son de esta índole. Los niveles de magnitud entre la actividad humana y el devenir de la actividad solar no son comparables.
THe argo buoys have been recording ocean temperature for a time now and show the ocean is warming. That is clearly linked to our green house gases helping infrared radiation penetrate the ocean and heat it from the top down.
https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=5916
While 1998 was an abnormally warm year, annual average temperatures have trended steadily upward in the decades since.
As a strong El Nino year, 1998 featured a significant spike in global temperatures. El Nino is the warm phase of a cyclic climatic pattern where sea temperatures in parts of the Pacific swing higher or lower than average. The 1998 El Nino stood out above the rising temperature trendline that is due to manmade global warming.
However, the long-term upward trend in globally-averaged temperatures has continued. In the past quarter century, the top ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 2010.
Go to full rebuttal on Skeptical Science or to the fact brief on Gigafact
The global warming of the 20th century ended in the 1990s; Since about 1998 we have been living in thermal inertia, as warming stopped. The climate of cities, called Urban Climate, should not be confused with natural climate variability. Human beings do not have the capacity to produce either heating or cooling at the level of orbital forces, and the issue of cyclical changes that the Earth has undergone is of this nature. The levels of magnitude between human activity and the evolution of solar activity are not comparable.
When you read my linked article it is clear that many experts disagree with your comments. The numbers suggest that the polar bears are thriving. Polar bears have survived for millions of years through warm periods as well as ice ages. They have done so by adapting to the climate.
If the sea ice declines, the polar bears decline. That's very clear in the data. As we emit co2 in 40 gigaton per year amounts, sea ice decline is inevitable. The areas of the artic with high sea ice shrinkage forces polar bears to adapt, with fewer cubs being born, and weight loss in the adult bears. This kind of climate we are in now has not happened in the last 800,000 years. Our present level of co2 is that of over 3 million years ago. CO2 having the correlation and mechanism to warm our earth, the polar bears lose.
Forty percent. That’s the stunning population loss for polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea. The news comes from a new study linking the dramatic decline in this polar bear subpopulation in northeast Alaska and Canada to a loss of sea ice due to climate change.
How does climate change affect polar bears so dramatically? Polar bears rely on sea ice to access the seals that are their primary source of food as well as to rest and breed. With less sea ice every year, polar bears and many other ice-dependent creatures are at risk.
Today’s study, published in Ecological Applications, analyzed data on polar bears in northeast Alaska and the Northwest Territories and documented a 40 percent population loss between 2001-2010 from 1,500 to 900 bears.
It is clear and undeniable that there is ice loss in the artic sea. Polar bears rely on the ice for hunting and resting to feed themselves and their cubs. Depending on the area of the artic, the greater the loss of sea ice, the more the bears had to adapt from the loss of their hunting habitat. Less eating seals and more of eating something else. Not only has this effected polar bears, the loss of sea ice has effected walruses who also use the ice to hunt, fish and rest.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/12/polar-bears-and-climate-change-what-does-the-science-say/
Climate change is having a clear negative impact on polar bears, say scientists, making it harder for them to hunt, mate and breed.
Polar bears live in 19 key regions, all of which have experienced some degree of ice loss.
Carbon Brief speaks to experts and scientists from around the world to determine what a changing climate means for polar bears.
Afortunadamente, los osos polares saben que están viviendo en el contexto geológico del clima terrestre de un "Ice House", por lo que las idas y venidas cíclicas del hielo marino ártico no les preocupa. Y otra cosa, estamos bajo fluctuaciones climáticas que sin duda, mirado desde el siglo XXII para los que estén allí, dirán que hubo variabilidad climática por la actividad solar. Cambio Climático es un tema geológico y en ese contexto debe analizarse.
DeleteFortunately, polar bears know they're living in the geological context of an "Ice House" terrestrial climate, so the cyclical comings and goings of Arctic sea ice don't worry them. And another thing, we are under climatic fluctuations that without a doubt, looked at from the 22nd century for those who are there, will say that there was climate variability due to solar activity. Climate change is a geological issue and must be analysed in that context.
DeleteI put your response into google translate and this is what google said you said up above. Down below is the subject of did the sun cause global warming on earth. The basic answer is no. The increasing GHGs emitted from our society did it. I believe you can find this site in the Spanish version also.
https://skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming-advanced.htm
The sun's energy has decreased since the 1980s but the Earth keeps warming faster than before.
In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. Sun and climate have been going in opposite directions.
In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. Sun and climate have been going in opposite directions.
In the past century, the Sun can explain some of the increase in global temperatures, but a relatively small amount.
El calentamiento global del siglo XX terminó en la década de los 90; aproximadamente desde 1998 vivimos en una inercia térmica, ya que el calentamiento se detuvo. El clima de las ciudades, llamado Clima Urbano, no debe ser confundido con la variabilidad natural del clima. El ser humano no tiene la capacidad de producir ni calentamientos ni enfriamientos a nivel de fuerzas orbitales y el tema de los cambios cíclicos que ha sufrido la Tierra son de esta índole. Los niveles de magnitud entre la actividad humana y el devenir de la actividad solar no son comparables.
DeleteTHe argo buoys have been recording ocean temperature for a time now and show the ocean is warming. That is clearly linked to our green house gases helping infrared radiation penetrate the ocean and heat it from the top down.
Deletehttps://skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=5916
While 1998 was an abnormally warm year, annual average temperatures have trended steadily upward in the decades since.
As a strong El Nino year, 1998 featured a significant spike in global temperatures. El Nino is the warm phase of a cyclic climatic pattern where sea temperatures in parts of the Pacific swing higher or lower than average. The 1998 El Nino stood out above the rising temperature trendline that is due to manmade global warming.
However, the long-term upward trend in globally-averaged temperatures has continued. In the past quarter century, the top ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 2010.
Go to full rebuttal on Skeptical Science or to the fact brief on Gigafact
The global warming of the 20th century ended in the 1990s; Since about 1998 we have been living in thermal inertia, as warming stopped. The climate of cities, called Urban Climate, should not be confused with natural climate variability. Human beings do not have the capacity to produce either heating or cooling at the level of orbital forces, and the issue of cyclical changes that the Earth has undergone is of this nature. The levels of magnitude between human activity and the evolution of solar activity are not comparable.
When you read my linked article it is clear that many experts disagree with your comments. The numbers suggest that the polar bears are thriving. Polar bears have survived for millions of years through warm periods as well as ice ages. They have done so by adapting to the climate.
ReplyDeleteIf the sea ice declines, the polar bears decline. That's very clear in the data. As we emit co2 in 40 gigaton per year amounts, sea ice decline is inevitable. The areas of the artic with high sea ice shrinkage forces polar bears to adapt, with fewer cubs being born, and weight loss in the adult bears. This kind of climate we are in now has not happened in the last 800,000 years. Our present level of co2 is that of over 3 million years ago. CO2 having the correlation and mechanism to warm our earth, the polar bears lose.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/polar-bear-population-decline-a-wake-up-call-for-climate-change-action
Forty percent. That’s the stunning population loss for polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea. The news comes from a new study linking the dramatic decline in this polar bear subpopulation in northeast Alaska and Canada to a loss of sea ice due to climate change.
How does climate change affect polar bears so dramatically? Polar bears rely on sea ice to access the seals that are their primary source of food as well as to rest and breed. With less sea ice every year, polar bears and many other ice-dependent creatures are at risk.
Today’s study, published in Ecological Applications, analyzed data on polar bears in northeast Alaska and the Northwest Territories and documented a 40 percent population loss between 2001-2010 from 1,500 to 900 bears.