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Scientists Admit Polar Bear Numbers Were Made Up

This may come as a shocker to some, but scientists are not always right — especially when under intense public pressure for answers.
Researchers with the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) recently admitted to experienced zoologist and polar bear specialist Susan Crockford that the estimate given for the total number of polar bars in the Arctic was “simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand.”
Crockford has been critical of official polar bear population estimates because they fail to include five large subpopulations of polar bears. Because of the uncertainty of the populations in these areas, PBSG did not include them in their official estimate — but the polar bear group did include other subpopulation estimates.
PBSG has for years said that global polar bear populations were between 20,000 and 25,000, but these estimates are likely much lower than how many polar bears are actually living in the world.
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Anonymous
May 31st, 2014
So are the pjrojected cafe mpg standards and attempt to put us all in micro mini clown cars, “clean zero emissions” electric cars, etc.
Racist
May 31st, 2014
Well then how many “Polar Bars” are there in the Arctic to be exact? I know there’s that one up by the North Pole where Olive the other reindeer met Round John Virgin and that grumpy flightless reindeer who sounds like Michael Stipe, in that Drew Barrymore Christmas cartoon. But there’s bound to be more than one bar in a place where the entire work season actually only lasts 1 season out of the year!!! It’s gotta be worse than a Injun Resermavation in terms of alkyholism!!!
Boobie the Rocket Dog
May 31st, 2014
I just want to reach out and pet that bear, but I’d probably lose my hand in the process.
Stirrin the BS
May 31st, 2014
Mr. Bear, you’re a day early. Claudia doesn’t post her critters until Sunday morning. Go back to sleep.
grayjohn
May 31st, 2014
I wonder how much other “Science” is made up. Are all their degrees and doctorates made up too?
Is there anything they won’t lie about?
FreeMan & Sarah @ Worlds End
May 31st, 2014
Facts are stubborn thinks.
Anyone calling themselves a scientist should never be allowed to so much as hold a beaker, test tube, or a slide rule ever again if they changed data for public demand. WTF kind of science is that.
Too bad we did away with stocks in the town square, cause I feel the need to publicly shame them. What an effin joke they are.
Tim
May 31st, 2014
When we consider that most “science” is performed at the behest of some bureaucracy or another, and that the funding is from the taxpayers, we begin to understand that most “science” is BULLSHIT to promote some bureaucratic agenda. The bureaucracy shops for “scientists” to fund, and finds an awful lot of very willing dupes – the rewards are enormous.
D-Bad
May 31st, 2014
This leads to a revision of the the age old rhetorical question ‘Does a bear shit in the woods?’ to ‘Does a climate scientist make shit up?’
ed
May 31st, 2014
early 60s polar population approx. 6000, 2014 approx. 52000
Kevin R.
May 31st, 2014
Public demand? The Natural Resources Defence Coucil and the Sierra Club do not the public make.
twofer
May 31st, 2014
celebrity death match: algore vs. ANY polar bear
send about 5000 inner city ne’er do wells up the the arctic and let them try to kill THOSE polar bears
DaveVA
May 31st, 2014
Must have been having a blue Popsicle.
Stranded in Sonoma
May 31st, 2014
@Kevin R. — Bingo! You get today’s Blue Ribbon!
Not only do liberals cherry pick the “scientists,” the “scientists” cherry pick the data and also cherry pick who they consider to be “the public” just in case their data is
called into questionfound to be as phony as Obama’s birth certificate.Maksim nailed this very topic long ago.
Stranded in Sonoma
May 31st, 2014
What uncertainty? You mean the uncertainty of continued funding if you included those populations?
This is the very thing that Michael Crichton spoke about in his speech Science Policy in the 21st Century.
(The file linked is an MHT file that will only open in Internet Explorer. Just save it to your computer first. Sorry.)
Read the entire speech. You will see that even Crichton recognized the libtards wanted nothing to do with the truth and the facts. They just wanted to protect their agenda.
Bad_Brad
May 31st, 2014
If memory serves me correct, didn’t Sara Palin call bull shit on this a long time ago?