Susan Crockford
Reports over the last week of an unexpected abundance of polar bears onshore in East and Southwest Greenland have locals and tourists concerned. The former Prime Minister of Greenland claims the unusual number of bear sightings and problems with bears near communities (including an attack involving serious injury to a German researcher) are due to abundant sea ice offshore. This explanation is contrary to what polar bear specialists predict: i.e., that problems with bears occur when there is less ice than usual. None of the bears sighted have been described as thin or starving.
The Polar Bear Specialist Group has previously estimated that there are only about 650 bears in East Greenland, while a recent study estimated that an additional 234 bears lived in SE Greenland.
“Polar Bear Boom May Threaten Greenland Adventurers” (25 July 2024)
Polar bears don’t often show up in Southern or Western Greenland any more, but this year has been an exception. Only yesterday, two appeared near Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. And according to Aleqa Hammond, Greenland’s former Prime Minister, that’s just been the tip of the, well, iceberg.
“There are bears everywhere in West Greenland this year,” she told ExplorersWeb. “Quite a few have been way too close to towns in South Greenland this summer, too. Several polar bears have been shot in Qaqortoq, as the bears were literally in town.”
“Another polar bear shot in Ittoqqortoormiit” (25 July 2024)
Another polar bear has been observed – and shot as an emergency – in Ittoqqortoormiit on Thursday morning. This is confirmed by the head of duty at the Greenland Police, Jørgen Madsen, to Sermitsiaq.
It is the second time a polar bear has been shot in emergency situations in Ittoqqortoormiit this week. On Tuesday evening around 19:30, the police received a report about a polar bear that had been shot in an emergency.
Here, the police could say that the polar bear came close to a dog crate, and then headed directly for a soccer field where children are playing.
“Man Survives Polar Bear Attack in Greenland” (30 July 2024)
Last week, a polar bear attacked a German researcher in East Greenland. The researcher, part of a team on Traill Island, encountered the bear on Friday morning.
Locations
Locations of sightings and problem bears are Ittoqqortoormiit (2 bears shot in the community), Traill Island (attack on a visiting researcher, E. Greenland), Nuuk (SW. Greenland), Qaqortoq (several bears shot, S. Greenland), the trail between Kangerlussuaq and Sisimiut (2 bears sighted, W. Greenland).
Sea ice conditions in July 2024
Chart image below for 20 July 2024 for East Greenland (NSIDC Masie):
Sea ice is high this year but was also high last year about this time, according to the NSIDC Masie graph below, to 31 July 2024:
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Polar bears seem to be as irracible as Grizzly bears, their close relative.
We are in need of an independent count of polar bears. The monopoly of the political polar bear specialist group has even declared its anti science , pro new world order stance when they went to Michael Mann (who doesn’t have the least clue about the subject) to contact Susan Crockford’s University (U of Victoria, BC) and had her fired! How long are we going to put up with this destructive creep?
Anyway, I think we should fund Susan Crockford to put some honest biologists on the ground to straighten out the best count. The bozo bear group greets the news of fat twin and triplet bearing females with an estimate of dwindling population.
My understanding is that local Inuit subsistence hunters report that bear numbers were the highest in living memory. Obviously, someone living off the land in the high Arctic would be in a position to know the local fauna.
Dr. Crockford again demonstrating that science needs to be data driven.
Sent Al Gore and Mickey Mann to do a proper one to one count.
Must number each PB with red dye on the forehead.
No tranquiliser guns allowed.
I find it sad that both bears and people have to die.
Maybe instead of wasting money on wind and
solar facilities, a better way can be funded.
Al Gore has made lots of money from the Polar Bear
scam. He could spare a few million $$.
Al Gore (aka ManBearPig) is loaded. He should move out of his mansions in the U.S. and move to Greenland to prepare for global warming.
A few billion $$.
That is one fat bear, that is.
We’ll know there’s a problem when poley bears start dropping from the sky (not quite sure how they get up there to begin with).
Go ask Charles Fort, I think he’ll know.
Are polar bears ETs?
Curious minds want to know.