Even though a big deal was made earlier this year about climate activists not using polar bears anymore to try and sell the climate change emergency narrative, they just can’t seem to help themselves.
So it’s not at all surprising that yet another amateur climate activist has resorted to using the emotional ploy of a photo of a polar bear on sea ice to win the 2023 Wildlife Photo of the Year People’s Choice Award sponsored by the Natural History Museum London (UK).
Said Museum director Dr Douglas Gurr of the photo taken by British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani: “
His thought-provoking image is a stark reminder of the integral bond between an animal and its habitat and serves as a visual representation of the detrimental impacts of climate warming and habitat loss.“
Yet, the photo itself doesn’t show an animal beaten down by a struggle to survive but rather a fat polar bear so confident in its environment that it is relaxed enough to take a nap. It’s the photographer and his climate-anxious audience that perceives this to be a precarious situation, not the polar bear. The bear is fine.
The Barents Sea subpopulation, to which this particular polar bear belongs, is currently thriving. Barents Sea polar bears are not slowly starving to death but successfully making their way through the challenges of Arctic life as all polar bears must do.
The photographer who took the polar bear photo was quoted in the museum press release as saying:
‘Whilst climate change is the biggest challenge we face, I hope that this photograph also inspires hope. There is still time to fix the mess we have caused.’
I have no idea what “mess” he’s referring to. Like the photo he took, visions of climate change disaster are an illusion perpetuated by the media and misinformed educators like the Natural History Museum. Summer sea ice hasn’t declined in 17 years and the polar bear catastrophe we were promised never happened. In case you missed it, I wrote a book about that.
Polar bears across the Arctic are thriving.
As I mentioned to Tom Nelson in my interview with him last month, the work I have done exposing the failed polar bear narrative over the last 11 years has been incredibly useful in helping the public apply critical thinking to other, more complex issues, including Covid containment measures and the WEF climate change agenda. That’s the value of good science communication: it’s beneficial in more than one specific context.
If the public can see that polar bear specialists have been hiding data from the public and misrepresenting research results in order to maintain their support of human-caused climate change, how much other “supporting evidence” for the climate change agenda is just as scientifically suspect?
Do yourself a favour and keep thinking critically about everything. That’s what will save us all.
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