Toldja So!
Those pesky polar bears are in the news again. This time it’s part of an article by Christopher Booker for his Notebook in the Telegraph.
Several notable quotes come from this column:
This body [US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the website Cryosphere Today by the University of Illinois] is committed to warmist orthodoxy and contributes to the work of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Yet its graph of northern hemisphere sea ice area, which shows the ice shrinking from 13,000 million sq km to just 4 million from the start of 2007 to October, also shows it now almost back to 13 million sq km.
I think there’s a type in the numbers - it should read 13 million sq km, since the chart and the other numbers all are listed in millions, not billions of sq km.
A second graph, “Global Ice Area”, shows a similar pattern repeated every year since satellite records began in 1979; while a third, “Southern Hemisphere Ice”, shows that sea ice has actually expanded in recent years, well above its 30-year mean.
And, not to be outdone by the fauxtographers of the world, it turns out that the forlorn polar bears on that iceberg Al Gore has been pimping touting is not what it was claimed to be.
Now, thanks to a Canadian journalist, Carole Williams (on NewsWithViews.com), we can read the story behind this picture, which was taken in 2004 just off Alaska by a marine biologist, Amanda Byrd. As Ms Byrd is happy to point out, the bears were in no danger so close to the coast (they can swim 100 miles). She wanted a photograph more of the “wind-sculpted ice” than of the bears.
I wonder if John McCain won’t be so anxious to embrace global warming after this.
(h/t Don Surber)
