Media Warns Of Polar Bear Inbreeding Disaster – Ignores Reality Over Theory
By
Anthony Watts -
September 10, 2021 0
A new study published in Royal Society Journals publicized by many mainstream media outlets today, claims polar bears are in trouble from a loss of genetic diversity due to climate change. This claim has no basis in hard zoological or biological data, and no basis in actual sea ice measurements. It is a false alarm based in worst-case projections from computer models simulations.
As is true with all of the mainstream media’s coverage of the study, The Hill’s story, titled “Scientists warn polar bears are inbreeding due to climate change,” paints a dire picture. The study claims to have found a 10-percent decrease in the genetic diversity of polar bears in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard over a 20-year period, which they say corresponds directly with the loss of Arctic Sea ice
“We found a drastic reduction in genetic diversity over the 20-year period,” one of the study’s authors, Simo Maduna of the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, told ABC News. “And we could, in actual fact, associate this reduction in genetic diversity with the loss of sea ice.”
https://climaterealism.com/2021/09/media-warns-of-polar-bear-inbreeding-disaster-ignores-reality-over-theory/
