Dagens bild 22 mars 2019
Boktips
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En ny bok om
isbjörnar. Boken visa hur miljöorganisationer och aktivister försökte
att få det till att bli en katastrof för isbjörnarna när det i själva
verket var tvärtom. Och personer som inte ville bidra till den falska
bilden utsattes för förtal.
En sammanfattning på
engelska.
The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened explains why the
catastrophic decline in polar bear numbers we were promised in 2007
failed to materialize. It’s the story of how and why the polar bear came
to be considered 'Threatened' with extinction, and tracks its rise and
fall as an icon of the global warming movement. The book also tells the
story of Crockford’s role in bringing that failure to public attention
and the backlash against her that ensued – and why, among all others who
have attempted to do so previously, she was uniquely positioned to do
so. In general, this is a cautionary tale of scientific hubris and of
scientific failure, of researchers staking their careers on untested
computer simulations and later obfuscating inconvenient facts.For the
first time, you'll see a frank and detailed account of attempts by
scientists to conceal population growth as numbers rose from an
historical low in the 1960s to the astonishing highs that surely must
exist after almost 50 years of protection from overhunting. There is
also a blunt account of what truly abundant populations of bears mean
for the millions of people who live and work in areas of the Arctic
inhabited by polar bear.
Se även hur WWF manipulerar fakta.
1980
tyckte WWF att isbjörnen var räddad till eftervärlden när det fanns
10 000 isbjörnar, det hade blivit slut på jakten.
Nu
när det troligtvis finns närmare 30 000 st skriver WWF att isbjörnen är
en förlorare. |