Bjorn Lomborg in the WSJ comments that The Washington Post, Al Gore, World Wildlife Fund, and others predicted in the early 2000s that the end was near for the polar bears due to melting Arctic sea-ice. Starvation and extinction was imminent.

Present estimates peg polar bear populations somewhere between 22-32,000. This is up substantially from a 1960s population estimate of 12,000.

The increase in population numbers is almost totally due to the end of hunting of the species with the loss of Arctic sea-ice having little discernible effect of the bears numbers.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is growing not shrinking. The Pacific atolls are also growing, not sinking into the ocean. And across the planet for every person that dies of heat 9 people die of cold.

Source: Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions – WSJ by Lomborg, 2024. Graphic: Photo of Polar Bears, Public Domain.