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Offline PeteS in CA

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BEAR-MAGEDDON: 7 Outlets Scaremonger Polar Bears ‘Rewriting’ DNA to Fight Climate Change

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/12/16/bear-mageddon-7-outlets-scaremonger-polar-bears-rewriting

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Apparently, our furry friends in the Arctic are becoming ingenious chemists to fight the climate boogeyman didn’t you know! At least, that’s the kooky notion a number of lefty outlets are pushing in their latest batch of climate change codswallop.

ABC News, NBC News, Daily Beast, BBC, The Guardian, The Independent  and EuroNews all did the eco-scare dance over a new study and claimed polar bears were “rewriting their DNA” to fight climate change. No, you didn’t misread that. Amidst the repeatedly debunked notion that polar bears are destined to go extinct in the next few decades or so, the Daily Beast in particular, expressed “hopes that with these new findings we are able to reduce our carbon emissions to buy the bears enough time to adapt to their changing environment.” In essence, curb your carbon-emitting lifestyles or the bears are going to die!

Climate Depot founder Marc Morano blasted the media outlets perpetuating this nonsense in comments to MRC Business. “Scientists and scientific data have known for decades that 'climate change' was not threatening polar bears in the Arctic. The number of polar bears in the Arctic has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly since a hunting ban was imposed.” Specifically, said Morano, “The polar bear population exploded from an estimated 5,000 in the 1960s to 30,000 or more today.”
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The Daily Beast Breaking News Intern Tamilore Oshikanlu was adamant December 15 that “Climate Change Is Forcing Polar Bears to Rewrite Their DNA.” Gee, we never expected these mammals to be such experts in gene editing. ...

Apparently the Beast wasn’t the only one to pass off the story down the food chain in their staff.  NBC News London-based intern Elmira Aliieva was one of the first to break the story on the polar bear superpowers. “Polar bears are rewiring their own genetics to survive a warming climate,” read her headline. It’s as if these media types are just copying off the same movie script. ...

ABC News reporter Brianna Alvarado’s story on the matter wasn’t much better: “Polar bears are 'rewriting their DNA' to survive warming Arctic, study suggests.” ...

In real life, polar bears are simply adapting to climate cycles the way they have for millennia. There are no ursine genetic engineers.
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BEAR-MAGEDDON: 7 Outlets Scaremonger Polar Bears ‘Rewriting’ DNA to Fight Climate Change – Morano: ‘When current reality fails to alarm…they make scarier & scarier (unfounded) predictions of the future’

Excerpt: Climate Depot founder Marc Morano blasted the media outlets perpetuating this nonsense in comments to MRC Business. “Scientists and scientific data have known for decades that 'climate change' was not threatening polar bears in the Arctic. The number of polar bears in the Arctic has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly since a hunting ban was imposed.” Specifically, said Morano, “The polar bear population exploded from an estimated 5,000 in the 1960s to 30,000 or more today.”  ...

But this is a load of bunk, as Morano joked to MRC. “It is safe to say that polar bears are disappearing, but only from Al Gore's books and movies!” He joked that “In Gore's 2006 film, he made the polar bear a poster child for global warming, but fast forward to his 2017 film and book sequel, and Gore did not even mention them.” Scientists have testified before Congress that “polar bears have survived several historic episodes of much warmer temperatures over the last 10,000 years, and they have adapted,” Morano noted. In essence, polar bear adaptation to a changing climate isn’t even a new thing.

Morano argued that what the new study does, if anything, is reveal “some insight into one of the many ways these bears have adapted.” ...

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/12/17/bear-mageddon-7-outlets-scaremonger-polar-bears-rewriting-dna-to-fight-climate-change-morano-when-current-reality-fails-to-alarm-they-make-scarier-scarier-unfounded-predi/
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The polar bears and penguins will be just fine. The seas aren't rising after all.
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Sea Levels Were 30 Meters Higher In East Antarctica 8,000 Years Ago, Study Finds
Today’s sea levels are the lowest in the last several thousand years.
by Kenneth Richard   
December 19, 2025

Carbon dating evidence from the elevation of abandoned penguin rookeries (and other proxies) reveals that relative sea level (RSL) was ~30 meters higher than today across East Antarctica about 8,000 years ago (Small et al., 2025). [some emphasis, links added]

Following that highstand, RSL fell rapidly at rates of 4 to 10 meters per 1,000 years.

RSL was 24 meters above present sea level (ASL) by 7,200 years ago, 15 meters ASL by 5,700 years ago, 5 meters ASL by 3,200 years ago, and still 1 meter ASL about 800 years ago. ...
https://climatechangedispatch.com/east-antarctica-higher-sea-levels-8000-years-ago/