Climate zealots are always wrong but never own up to their nonsense

I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn’t think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, “The era of global boiling has arrived!”Global boiling? Give me a break.Yes, the climate is warming.We can deal with that.What annoys me is politicians, activists and media pushing hysterical myths.Myth 1: The Arctic will soon be ice-free.It “could already be ice-free by the summer of 2030!” shrieks a DW News report.            “‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought,” adds the BBC.“Earth’s biggest cities are at risk!”Nonsense.“It’s not happening at nearly the catastrophic pace that they claim,” says Heartland Institute fellow Linnea Lueken.But the media show dramatic images of melting and missing ice.“No ice! There’s all these walruses laying out on a stony beach .

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It’s because it’s the summertime! In the winter, it all comes right back!”As far as ice disappearing in winter, too, “Compared to the amount of ice that’s in the Arctic,” says Lueken, it “is like a grain of sand ..

.so minuscule compared to the amount of ice that’s there, it doesn’t even show up on a trend chart when you plot it.”But zealots push hysteria.In 2009, Al Gore, while collecting a Nobel Prize, said there was “a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap .

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during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years!”In just five to seven years! Oh, no!Wait ..

.seven years have passed.

In fact, 16 years passed.The ice cap has plenty of ice, even in summer.Yet nobody calls him on it.“They absolutely should be calling him on it,” says Lueken.Myth 2: Polar bears are going extinct.Polar bears look cute, so environmental groups use them in ads to sucker you into donating money.But polar bear populations have increased!In the 1960s, 17,000-19,000 was the highest of three scientific estimates of polar bear populati...