From lonely polar bears to shrinking reefs to sinking islands there’s a pattern: climate scares get dropped when the data don’t co-operate
by Bjorn Lomborg, Special to Financial Post
October22, 2024
Looking back on more than 20 years of climate agitation, two themes emerge: campaigners’ stubborn unwillingness to acknowledge any inconvenient science and the continual cycling of scare stories, first elevated and then dropped by the wayside. The one constant: a fixation on frightening the public that has led to bad climate policies.
At the start of this century, the polar bear was the emblem of climate apocalypse. Protesters dressed as polar bears. Al Gore’s hit 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death. The Washington Post warned that polar bears faced extinction. The World Wildlife Fund’s chief scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012.
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