The Climate Scaremongers: David Attenborough And The Great Walrus Deception

The following is excerpted from Paul Homewood’s excellent weekly summary of the climate doomsters running rampant across the world. –CCD Ed.

In 2019, Netflix in conjunction with WWF broadcast Frozen Worlds, an episode in the Our Planet series narrated by David Attenborough. The scenes it showed shocked and horrified viewers around the world.

After a brief introduction about the recent loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the ‘inevitable’ devastation this will cause for Arctic animals, it shifts to a series of amazing shots of tens of thousands of walrus, crowded cheek-by-jowl on a beach in Siberia.

The camera pans out to a rocky cliff, which several walrus are attempting to climb. Suddenly, one after another, the walrus is shown falling off the cliff to their deaths on the rocky shore below.

The scenes are shown in slow motion and repeated to maximize the shock effect.

Attenborough coolly informs viewers that the walrus would not normally be there, but out on the sea ice.

Because of man-made global warming, the poor walrus have been forced on to land in crowded conditions, where they will inevitably suffer and die.

But was it all as simple as Attenborough portrayed?

A number of suspicions were immediately evident. Far from such haulouts being unusual, walrus use these beaches every year to rest and feed while waiting for the sea ice to move south in autumn.

They invariably crowd together in these situations, both for warmth and protection from polar bears.

Indeed, far from being threatened by climate change, walrus populations have been growing in recent years, explaining why so many were hauled out that day. Retreating sea ice actually increases the food supply for walrus.

And what made those walrus try to climb the cliff?

Dr. Susan Crockford is a professional zoologist who has specialized in Arctic mammals for many years, particularly polar bears and walrus. She immediately smelled a rat.

Her newly published book, Fallen Icon: Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception, tells how she uncovered exactly what went on that day on the Siberian beach.

Her detective work reveals that it was polar bears stalking them that forced the walrus up that cliff, which is a common hunting tactic, and that the bears fed off the carcasses below.

She uncovers evidence that WWF knew about this hunting tactic at that location, and that was precisely why this beach was chosen for the film.

She goes on to describe how Attenborough used this horrifying imagery to jump-start a three-year campaign against human-caused global warming that included ten documentaries laden with groundless climate emergency messaging, much of it aimed at the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world.

Attenborough’s relentless climate activism included a utopian vision of global changes for society eerily similar to the one proposed by the World Economic Forum.

It is hard to disagree with Crockford’s conclusions:

‘It appears to me that when he agreed to present the gruesome falling walrus film footage in Our Planet as evidence of climate change, Attenborough compromised his principles to achieve a specific end result. It will go down as another “own goal” for the climate change movement and be judged as the moment Attenborough fell from grace as a trusted British icon.’

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