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working on a new UK documentary about the bears. Compayre disputed fears of a
potential global warming threat to polar bears. A December 7, 2007 article in the UK Daily
Mail reported, "Dennis Compayre raises bushy grey eyebrows as he listens to the
environmentalists predict the polar bear's demise. ‗They (environmentalists) say the
numbers are down from 1,200 to around 900, but I think I know as much about polar bears
as anyone, and I tell you there are as many bears here now as there were when I was a
kid.'" According to the article, Compayre, who was born and raised in the Arctic town, "is
among those who eye the new ‗experts' in town with deep suspicion. Compayre added,
‗Churchill [in Northern Canada] is full of these scientists going on about vanishing bears
and thinner bears. They come here preaching doom, but I question whether some of them
really have the bears' best interests at heart. The bear industry in Churchill is big bucks, and
what better way to keep people coming than to tell them they'd better hurry to see the
disappearing bears.'" The article also noted, "To some Churchill residents, who base their
opinions on personal experience rather than fancy charts and computer models, [the polar
bear's demise] is so much nonsense put about by scaremongers for their own dubious
ends." (LINK) [Note: Compayre is not included in total count in this report.]
David Dilley, founder of Global Weather Oscillations, Inc., rejects the idea of manmade
global warming. Dilley's research found that the current global warming
episode is a "Natural Recurring Cycle." "Dilley demonstrated that the current global
warming episode is a „Natural Recurring Cycle,' and that this current cycle will begin to
diminish as early as 2015, and no later than 2040," according to an April 6, 2007 press
release. "Dilley's 15-years of ongoing climate research have uncovered a very powerful
external forcing mechanism that causes shifts in regional weather cycles, and the world's
climate. This forcing mechanism is called the ‗Primary Forcing Trigger Mechanism,' or
PFM. The PFM is a cyclical forcing mechanism that can be forecast years in advance, or
even traced back through the earth's climate history. The major influence of the PFM on
the earth's climate is that it causes the world's dominating regional high-pressure systems to
shift position, or become displaced from their normal seasonal position," noted the press
release on the website of Global Weather Oscillations. "Dilley states that the current global
warming is without a doubt the result of a known external "natural" forcing cycle.
According to Dilley, most government officials, climatologists and meteorologists are
looking only at the increase in temperatures and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels over the past
50 to 100 years. But when you take into account nearly 40 other global warming episodes
over the past 5 thousand years, it becomes very apparent that CO2 levels cannot be the
forcing mechanism that has caused global warming," the press release stated. (LINK)
Biologist Josef Reichholf, who heads the Vertebrates Department at the National
Zoological Collection in Munich, rejected climate fears and asserted global warming will
be beneficial to humans and animals, particularly polar bears. Fears of mass species
extinctions because of global warming are "nothing but fear-mongering, for which there is
no concrete evidence. On the contrary, there is much to be said for the argument that
warming temperatures promote biodiversity. There is a clear relationship between
biodiversity and temperature. The number of species increases exponentially from the
regions near the poles across the moderate latitudes and to the equator. To put it succinctly,
the warmer a region is, the more diverse are its species," Reichholf said in an interview
with Der Spiegel on May 8, 2007. Reichholf, a professor of ecology and conservation at
both of Munich's two universities, and author of the book A Short Natural History of the
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