The Guardian's 'ursus bogus' moment

Quoted by Mick J at 5.54 pm
“Of course, others did not fare as well including Dancer and a radio-collared female who was reported to have lost her cub this fall. She was disoriented and wandering down the road, her hormones probably all out of whack. Its tough to see but this is part of nature.”
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Does it ever occur to these “researchers” that capturing, knocking out, and placing a radio collar on an animal might negatively affect It?

Polar bear populations are a sensitive topic for the Canadian government, which has faced international criticism for its policies on climate change and for allowing limited hunting of bears, mainly by indigenous communities….
….for example, has shrunk by nearly 10% to 850 bears in under a decade, according to the latest Canadian government estimate seen by the Guardian….
The latest Canadian government estimates, which have yet to be shared with independent scientists or the public,…
“You can see their backbones and their hips and shoulder blades when they are moving and they are visibly thin,” said Ian Stirling, a wildlife biologist at the University of Alberta, who has studied the population for more than 35 years.

OK. No photos of skinny polar bears from Stirling I see. Goldenberg of the Guardian may have let the cat out of the bag in her very first paragraph which mentions ‘limiting hunting’, and how do they keep track of any illegal hunting? What about polluting contaminants, disease, migration?
PCBs
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412010002242
Here is the 1974 1975 starvation event in the Beaufort Sea caused by TOO MUCH ICE!
http://polarbearscience.com/2013/02/21/where-were-the-appeals-to-feed-starving-polar-bears-in-1974/
“Abstract
……a radio-collared adult female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea made a continuous swim of 687 km over 9 days and then intermittently swam and walked on the sea ice surface an additional 1,800 km…..The extraordinary long distance swimming ability of polar bears, which we confirm here, may help them cope with reduced Arctic sea ice……”
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=24131717

“It has warmed a lot in Eastern Canada over the last 17 years … if you lived here you would know that. Question is … how long will this last … this years ice looks like its forming faster!”
Tell it to my brother who lives near Montreal and can’t find any consistent climate warming.
“Now I’m confused. Is the heat hiding in the polar bears or in the ice?”
It’s obviously hiding in selected parts of eastern Canada. OTOH it is definitely not hiding in this part of eastern Virginia where temperatures are at or below levels of thirty years ago.

David L. Hagen says:
November 28, 2013 at 4:12 pm
I recommend submitting this to be reproduced in the Journal of Irreproducible Results and for a potential Ignoble Award.
Not sure it fits. It looks a different category to me, this does not “first make people laugh” and then “make them think”. Hm, ok, we can debate on this actually.
However:
“The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology”
This science by press release has a different effect. It is trying to bully people with things presented as science.
A paper without raw data and clear description of methodology is not a scientific paper. It qualifies for “the science” not science.
To me this rather looks like the medieval organization a procession of flagellant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellant
under guidance of “the science”, where we, the stupid sinners, must march on and flagellate ourselves for the foregivens of our sins and do so reparations.