thestar.com iPhone : Scientist disputes claim that polar bear population is abundant

At the time the survey was released James Eetoolook, vice president of NTI, said the aerial survey proved the Inuit’s belief that “polar bears are not declining in number.”

“We have reported for many years that we are seeing more and more bears on land and in communities, which raises public safety concerns,” Eetoolook said in a statement on the company’s website.

“Inuit were told by scientists the reason there are more bears in communities is due to a decline in the condition of the population, but Inuit disagreed with this interpretation,” said Eetoolook. “For many years, Inuit asked the territorial government to conduct summer range aerial surveys. Finally, in 2011, that aerial survey was conducted and as Inuit knew, the population was found to be healthy and abundant.

He continued: “This is not climate change. This is about how polar bears were used to draw attention to climate change. Changes were not made to reduce the causes or impact of climate change, but changes were made to the harvesting quotas. It was dangerous and wrong for scientist to use incomplete data to make predictions.”

T. Boone’s Turnaround on Wind Energy - By Drew Thornley - Planet Gore - National Review Online

ell, after his failed foray into wind, T. Boone is boomeranging back to oil and gas. This morning, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, he said that “the jobs are in the oil and gas industry in the United States.” About wind energy, he lets viewers know “I lost my a– in the (wind) business.”

49 former NASA scientists go ballistic over agency’s bias over climate change

Some prominent voices at [external] NASA are fed up with the agency’s activist stance toward climate change.

49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent the following letter asking the agency to move away from climate models and to limit its stance to what can be empirically proven.

Just A Coincidence | Real Science

No doubt it is just a coincidence that essentially all climate data adjustments are made upwards, and all are made by people who depend on global warming money for a living.

The WWF’s Vast Pool of Oil Money « NoFrakkingConsensus

The World Wildlife Fund’s first corporate sponsor was Shell oil – which continued to fund it for the next four decades.