Shrinking island, vanishing polar bears — the climate scare stories that turn out to be false By Bjorn Lomborg

According to studies, the land mass of the island of Tuvalu is increasing -- despite past concerns about it sinking due to climate change.

Looking back on more than 20 years of climate agitation, two themes emerge: 

• a stubborn unwillingness by campaigners to acknowledge any inconvenient science, and 
• ever-shifting favorite stories, first elevated and then dropped by the wayside.

The one constant: a fixation on scaring the public, which has in turn shaped bad climate policies.
At the start of this century, the polar bear was the emblem of climate apocalypse...
And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears...