Whatever happened to polar bears? They used to be all climate campaigners could talk about, but now they’re essentially absent from headlines. The population has risen from around 12,000 in the 1960s to about 26,000.
The same thing has happened with activists’ outcry about Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. he latest official statistics show a completely different picture. For the past three years the Great Barrier Reef has had more coral cover than at any point since records began in 1986, with 2024 setting a new record.
More recently, green campaigners were warning that small Pacific islands would drown as sea levels rose. About a month ago, the New York Times finally shared what it called “surprising” climate news: Almost all atoll islands are stable or increasing in size. In fact, scientific literature has documented this for more than a decade.
And of course, that ice age predicted in the 70's never came to pass. Nor the predictions that all polar ice would be gone. Or that New York City would be underwater (literally, as opposed to financially).
One thing that has happened is that a lot of people have made huge money off the hoax.
The same thing has happened with activists’ outcry about Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. he latest official statistics show a completely different picture. For the past three years the Great Barrier Reef has had more coral cover than at any point since records began in 1986, with 2024 setting a new record.
More recently, green campaigners were warning that small Pacific islands would drown as sea levels rose. About a month ago, the New York Times finally shared what it called “surprising” climate news: Almost all atoll islands are stable or increasing in size. In fact, scientific literature has documented this for more than a decade.
And of course, that ice age predicted in the 70's never came to pass. Nor the predictions that all polar ice would be gone. Or that New York City would be underwater (literally, as opposed to financially).
One thing that has happened is that a lot of people have made huge money off the hoax.
