<<<Global warming was supposed to wreak havoc on polar bears. Looks like someone forgot to tell the polar bears.
Polar
bears “are the poster child for the impacts of climate change on
species, and justifiably so,” the World Wildlife Foundation proclaims on its website.
Pictures of polar bears on melting islands of ice are supposed to
provide a dire foreshadowing of the world’s future. In 2018, a National
Geographic story proclaimed, “Polar bears really are starving because of global warming, study shows.”
There’s
just one problem with all the doomsday talk. It’s not true. The number
of polar bears has been generally increasing for decades. As author
Bjorn Lomborg detailed recently,
the world polar bear population went from around 12,000 in 1965 to an
estimated 26,000 last year. The trend is unmistakably positive.>>>