Rogue polar bear expert dares challenge consensus on global warming

[Howzit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html

"Polar bear expert barred by global warmists:
Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful’ , reveals Christopher Booker.

Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.

This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN's major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December. But one of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.

Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined."


How dare Dr Taylor get in the way of important political changes?

[mikehiggins]

1. That is no weirder than the report I heard that polar bears were

mating with grizzley bears in Alaska to create Stephen Colbert's worst nightmare.

Seriously, if that is true it is just an example of how one species might adjust to global warming in an unexpected fashion.

Grizzleys and polar bears--bigger and meaner

I wonder if the Governor can see them from her house.

[obliviously]

3. Good one! N/T

[Kaleva]

2. An interesting article. Will have to read more about this later

[global1]

4. One Polar Bear Actually Has A Job On The TV Show 'Lost'......nt

[drm604]

5. "global warmists"? "events planned to stoke up alarm"?

This article seems to have an agenda far beyond polar bears.

[depakid]

6. Yep- there's an agenda alright

one apparently shared by the OP.

[geek tragedy]

7. This is not the Free Republic.

You must be confused.

[kestrel91316]

8. Oh, gosh, it's another GW denier. Do they crank you people out in a

factory somewhere???

[zeemike]

9. Let's see...there is a consensus in the group.

But one of them disagrees so he must be right.

[mahina]

10. Howzit, Howzit. Hey, what do you make of Sir Nicholas Stern's podcast from Oxford titled

'3 reasons you don't have to worry about climate change?'

You can find it here...scroll down to the economics of climate change. http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ You can listen to it on your ipod or computer. Hope you find it useful; I sure did.
He set up and logically, concisely, and irrefutably shattered every argument. Take a listen! The sound quality improves after Sir Nick starts speaking a minute or two. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts after you've heard and considered.

Aloha~

[Howzit]

12. Thanks for your civil suggestion - will give it a listen

Added a more direct link: http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxitems/generatersstwo2.php?channel_name=socsci/stern_climate-audio&destination=poau

[lapfog_1]

11. There sure is a *LOT* of stupid in that article

and in the comments that follow.