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Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful' , reveals Christopher Booker. According to the world's leading expert on polar bears, their numbers are higher than they were 30 years ago. Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming. This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN's major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December. But one of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group. - Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: The time for debate is ovah!
Free-Market Analysis: The above excerpted article is yet another example of why The Daily Bell focuses on dominant social themes and how they manifest themselves. A leading scientist is apparently not able to contribute to a political and academic conversation that deals directly with his expertise. Such events, (and in our opinion they occur over and over again) must inevitably lead to the conclusion that Western socio-political conversations are manipulated, certainly to a degree.
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