It would come as no surprise if David Suzuki called an emergency meeting of his David Suzuki Foundation over the weekend to deal with the sad news that the North Pole was not melting.
Every eco-system has its canary in the coal mine and, in the case of the Arctic, it¹s the polar bear - supposedly dying off, say doomsayers, because global warming is melting the very ice on which these bears need to hunt.
The trouble with this, however, is that it's bogus.
Our Nanooks of the North have never been healthier. An aerial survey of the northern shore of Hudson Bay, where the polar bear is supposedly most threatened, shows a population some 66% greater than what many scientists predicted.
This should drive Suzuki apoplectic. The dying polar bear, after all, is his meal ticket. Its impending demise turned the lies of An Inconvenient Truth into a Nobel Prize for former U.S. vice president Al Gore.
This is a very difficult bell to unring.
The aerial survey's results, released last week by the Government of Nunavut, shows a bear population along Hudson Bay of 1,013 animals when the alarmists predicted the number would be as low as 610.
These would likely be the same "scientists" used by David Suzuki for his sky-is-falling, ice-is-melting, canary-is-dying fundraisers which have Santa Claus drowning as the North Pole melts. What will they say now that this inconvenient truth has the polar bears flourishing, not dying off? It is a conundrum for the Suzuki crowd.
"(The survey shows) the bear population is not in crisis as people believed," says Drikus Gissing, wildlife management director of Nunavut.
"There is no doom and gloom."
What? How could this be?
Instead of listening to eco-opportunists, or university professors, we'd rather take the word of the Inuit. It's their hunting ground too, and they say the polar bear is far from being endangered.
In fact, the 25,000 polar bears across Canada's Arctic is likely the highest number ever.
We trust, therefore, that David Suzuki will call a press conference to explain his Chicken Little routine. He can use one of our Sun News studios for free.
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