Dr Susan Crockford

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If they had balanced debates in the media you might have heard of her.


Susan Crockford is a Canadian zoologist, author, and blogger specializing in Holocene mammals. From 2004 she was an adjunct professor in Anthropology at the University of Victoria. She is best known for her blog posts on polar bear biology, which oppose the scientific consensus that polar bears are threatened by ongoing climate change.





The Excommunication of Susan Crockford

Shameful news from the University of Victoria, Canada:




Like geologist Bob Carter before her, Susan Crockford has been stripped of her Adjunct Professor status by a university with which she has a long history. Why? Because she promotes facts and eschews climate activism.

In May, Canada’s University of Victoria (UVic) advised Crockford that an internal committee had voted to end her 15-year stint as an Adjunct Professor. Having undergone hip surgery in the interim, only now is she going public.

When the matter was last considered, the committee voted unanimously in her favour. What changed? Talks she was invited to give to schools apparently “generated concern among parents regarding balance.” That concern was “shared with various levels of the university,” according to an April 2017 e-mail from Ann Stahl, then chair of the Anthropology Department.

These vague accusations, leveled by an unknown number of unknown individuals who may or may not have been garden variety climate activists, were first used to expel Crockford from the UVic Speakers Bureau. They then became the impetus to expel her from the UVic academic community altogether.

I’ve written about this scandalous development in today’s Financial Post, the business section of Canada’s daily newspaper, the National Post: click here.

On the subject of balanced presentations, please see my recent commentary, U of Victoria’s Speakers Bureau. Many of the talks it promotes are one-sided, activist, and controversial. Someone with no science background has, for years, been giving lectures about ocean chemistry. Yet the eminently qualified Crockford was purged.

While UVic has deprived its students of her expertise, this weekend Crockford begins a European speaking tour. Audiences in Oslo, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Munich will have the opportunity to hear her firsthand.

notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/the-excommunication-of-susan-crockford/

business.financialpost.com/opinion/was-this-zoologist-punished-for-telling-school-kids-politically-incorrect-facts-about-polar-bears


Shameful stuff

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bad is good and good is bad and all pigs are equal..... the inquision lives

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As the Polar bear refuses to lie down and die like the victim of global warming it is proclaimed to be - thanks to people like Crockford, we now have this from the alarmists...



Why we're rethinking the images we use for our climate journalism

Guardian picture editor Fiona Shields explains why we are going to be using fewer polar bears and more people to illustrate our coverage of the climate emergency
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At the Guardian we want to ensure that the images we publish accurately and appropriately convey the climate crisis that we face.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/18/guardian-climate-pledge-2019-images-pictures-guidelines



The only real pressure on Polar bear numbers was hunting, not climate or ice.


Data from conservation groups and the government show that the polar bear population is roughly five times what it was in the 1950s and three or four times what it was in the 1970s when polar bears became protected under international treaty.

fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-polar-bear-population-is-declining/



This means we'll probably see a little less rubbish like this:

Polar bears could be sliding towards extinction faster than previously feared, with the animals facing an increasing struggle to find enough food to survive as climate change steadily transforms their environment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/01/polar-bears-climate-change


Last year they were going extinct faster than they thought, now the alarmists at the Guardian are going to be using fewer polar bears - and we know why.