Naturalist Sir David Attenborough finds himself accused of misleading the public in his Netflix documentary Our Planet.
Aired at the start of the year, the show became notorious for heart-wrenching footage of walruses falling to their deaths from cliffs in Siberia.
Attenborough’s claim that this was due to global warming became highly controversial when it was revealed that the footage had been recorded during an incident when polar bears were known to have driven walruses over the cliffs.
Now, archive video confirms that Attenborough misled his audience. US Fish and Wildlife Service footage, recorded at Cape Pierce in Alaska in 1994, shows that more than 100 walruses had fallen from cliffs there on a number of occasions:
The explanation given by scientists at the time was overcrowding on the beaches.
Dr. Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum, called on Attenborough to acknowledge the empirical evidence and correct the record:
“This video proves without any doubt that walruses have fallen from cliffs decades ago. These tragic episodes have nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with breeding success and population pressure.
I hope Sir David will acknowledge these scientific facts. It would be a sad legacy if he did not set the record straight.”
Dr. Benny Peiser is the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
walruses are going thro a population boom and are over populated in their breeding areas, as they are basically stupid and incredibly unsuited to life on land such disasters will occur..insignificant in real life terms but far less horrifying than the say Ruandan massacres by so called civilised man…. ther warmist are religious freaks and attenborough is approaching dementia!
Not the greatest abseil-specialists, walruses.
The footage had been recorded during an incident when polar bears were known to have driven walruses over the cliffs.
Yes but, the Polar Bears were only hunting there because climate change had melted all the ice floes where the seals used to live.
Lets dispatch with the Sir David crap . Davey boy is a serial hoaxer in the new liberal mold …. Throw out complete BS and then see if you get caught .
Then: Option 1. Err well I was only joking . (AOC already mastered that one )
Option 2 . Err well clearly it was taken out of context.
Option 3. Go on offence (the Mikey Man no data bluff charge )
Option 4 . Have a few G and T’s with Prince Chuck and pretend nothing
happened .
Bottom line…. liberal earth has a fever promoters know the MSM are chimps and will print anything that gets them hits . … Apologies don’t .
The British snobs don’t mind bird blenders on their estates though .
I read he was once knocked down by a angry Capricali(A Grouse )while doing a feature on this Birds how faking Walrus Deaths
He probably overlooked the global warming error when he accepted the paycheck !