Hace unas semanas leíamos en los papeles:

Scientists: Most Polar Bears Dead By 2050

Government Scientists Project Two-Thirds Drop In Bear Population Due To Global Warming

Así, en letras enormes. Los osos polares en vías de extinción. Y lo decían unos "científicos" sin nombre, eso sí, del estado (norteamericano en este caso)que a buen seguro votaron democráticamente y consensuaron sus posiciones antes de establecer un veredicto (tal y como exige el nuevo "método cieifico")

Luego pasa lo que pasa: el jefe, el que vive con los osos polares y come carne de foca con los esquimales, el que pone nombre propio a sus publicaciones, les da un repaso a los "científicos del consenso":

Polar bear die-off unlikely: GN official

Wildlife research director dismisses dire forecast by U.S. agency

Fears that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will die off in the next 50 years are overblown, says Mitchell ­Taylor, the Government of Nunavut’s director of wildlife research…

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Taylor even suggests polar bears may float still on the water to fool seals into thinking they are hunks of sea ice.

The Government of Nunavut is conducting a study of the Davis Strait bear population. Results of the study won’t be released until 2008, but Taylor says it appears there are some 3,000 bears in an area – a big jump from the current estimate of about 850 bears.

"That’s not theory. That’s not based on a model. That’s observation of reality," he says.

"Unlike all the others, I live in the north. My friends and neighbours are Nunavummiut," he said. "I’m talking to people about polar bears all the time."

Taylor characterizes much of the public discussion over, as one headline has called it, "the appalling fate of the polar bear," as "hysteria."