Shrinking islands, vanishing polar bears, collapsing coral reefs — the
media loves a good climate scare story. There’s just one problem, says
Bjorn Lomborg in the New York Post: all of these have turned out to be
false. Here’s an excerpt.
At the start of this century, the polar bear was the emblem of climate apocalypse.
Protesters
dressed as polar bears, while 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, and the World Wildlife Fund’s Chief
Scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to
reproduce by 2012.
And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears.
Why?
Because after years of misrepresentation, it finally became impossible
for them to ignore a mountain of evidence showing that the global polar bear population
has increased substantially from around 12,000 in the 1960s to around
26,000 in the present day. (The main reason? People are hunting a lot
less polar bears.)
The same thing has happened with depictions of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
For decades, campaigners shouted that the reef was being killed off by rising sea temperatures.
After extensive damage from a hurricane in 2009, official Australian estimates of coral cover reached a low in 2012.
The media were flooded with claims of the “Great Reef Catastrophe” and scientists predicted the reef would be decimated by 2022. The Guardian even published an obituary.
The latest official statistics show a completely different picture. For the past three years, the Great Barrier Reef has had more coral cover than at any point since records began in 1985, with 2024 setting a new record.
The good news gets a fraction of the coverage that the scare stories did.
An often-recurrent climate story has been the alleged drowning of small Pacific islands due to sea level rise. …
This summer, the New York Times finally shared
what it called “surprising” climate news: almost all atoll islands are
increasing in size. In fact, the scientific literature has documented
this trend for more than a decade.
While rising sea levels do erode land, additional sand from old coral is washed up on low-lying shores.
Extensive studies have long shown this accretion is stronger than climate-caused erosion, meaning the land area of Tuvalu is increasing....<<<Read More>>>...
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