Environmental Deception

National Geographic has finally admitted to facilitating fake news regarding climate change. The magazine's most viral video ever, which featured heart-wrenching images of a starving polar bear, perpetuated the narrative that the animal's imminent death was caused by climate change. However, the climate change aspect of the story is void of any real evidence. The photographer has admitted that the images of the bony, emaciated polar bear were meant to sound an alarm about climate change, though she complains that people took the image "literally." It is not hard to conceive of how people took the gloom-and-doom climate change narrative so "literally" when Nat Geo's first line of the video was, "This is what climate change looks like." The fake news narrative was viewed by over 2.5 billion sets of eyes, becoming the magazine's most viral video in their history. No wonder there is such a lack of trust in the media.

In contrast to the fake news that polar bears are losing their habitat to climate change, recent data clearly shows that in the past two years all records for Arctic sea ice volume gains have been blown away. Arctic sea ice volume gain has also been at a record high, increasing for over a decade now. The area of the Arctic covered with thick sea ice has greatly expanded over the past decade as well, causing an increasing number of cruises through the Northwest Passage to be cancelled.