Sir David Attenborough has been caught out telling more porkie pies to promote his green agenda – this time with a whale of tale in which he misleadingly suggests that ‘climate change’ has altered polar bears’ feeding habits.
The whispery-voiced, gorilla-hugging, walrus-slaying Malthusian made his claim on his Seven Worlds One Planet series for the BBC.
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It showed footage of a polar bear in Hudson Bay, Canada leaping into the water to kill a beluga whale. Attenborough’s script heavy-hinted that this was virtually unprecedented behaviour which had been forced on the hapless, starving bear as a survival strategy to deal with climate change.
After claiming that Canada is ‘warming faster than any country on earth’, Attenborough praises the polar bear’s ‘remarkable strategy for survival’.
According to a breathless resume in the Mail, formerly a newspaper sceptical of the global warming scare, this was an example of ‘climate change’ forcing ‘predators to hunt new prey’.
How many of the thousands who shared that story or watched the episode and took Attenborough’s claims at face value will ever know that this was the purest greenie propaganda.
First, as polar bear expert Susan Crockford has repeatedly demonstrated, climate change has done no harm whatsoever to polar bears – unless you want to worry about the fact that their populations to have grown massively, meaning more competition for food. (Saying this unsayable fact cost Crockford her job, for that is how tolerant and benign greenies are)
Second, as Paul Homewood notes, ‘just because David Attenborough’s cameraman has not seen this happen before, it does not mean it has not ever happened.’
Homewood goes on to demonstrate that Attenborough has misrepresented as unusual, almost unprecedented, behaviour which is in fact well-documented.
These two scientists, for instance, saw exactly the same thing going on in the 1980s, off Somerset Island in the high Arctic.
Note that this kill took place in the summer, just as Attenborough’s latest incident was. And there certainly should not have been a “shortage of sea ice”, given the much higher latitude at Somerset Island and the fact the sea ice was more extensive in the 1980s.
Attenborough has previously been caught out in this series talking utter nonsense about walruses.
Still, the public appear to be wising up to this. Here’s a sample of the comments below the Mail article:
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There are lots more comments in this vein. So why do we never read or hear these people’s concerns reflected anywhere any more in the mainstream media?