True, New York Post, Oft-Cited Climate Catastrophes Have Not Materialized

It is heartening when major news publications like the New York Post publish work done by Lomborg and other climate realists, who bravely insist on relying on available real-world data in the…

Western Hudson Bay sea ice breakup for polar bears like the 1980s for 3 of the last 5 yrs

…40% of all tagged bears being offshore is what I would call more than “some.”

Polar bear “boom” reported in East & Southwest Greenland comes with the usual problems

Reports over the last week of an unexpected abundance of polar bears onshore in East and Southwest Greenland have locals and tourists concerned.

W. Hudson Bay sea ice not going away anytime soon as polar bears sit tight offshore

…it won’t be gone anytime soon, which means most Western Hudson Bay polar bears will likely remain offshore for at least a few more weeks.

Last month of Arctic spring fails to bring sea ice to its knees, even in Southern Hudson Bay

It’s getting harder and harder for Derocher and colleagues to ignore the fact that their assumptions about sea ice concentration and polar bear behaviour was flat-out wrong.

Arctic sea ice at the summer solstice: more polar bear habitat than 2022 after hottest year on record

Polar bears in Western Hudson Bay are still on the ice despite vast open water levels normally signaling “breakup” has happened: the wind-driven ice is packed tight against the western…

New Hudson Bay sea ice modelling paper is more utterly useless fearmongering about polar bears

From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford A new collaboration by sea ice and polar bear specialists that predicts a catastrophic future for polar bears in Hudson Bay (Stroeve et al.…

Huge area of open water on Hudson Bay created by wind, not ice melt, NSIDC experts confirm

Sea ice experts at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center just confirmed my suspicion that the huge area of open water in eastern Hudson Bay during May this…

New Data Show Svalbard Polar Bears are Fatter than They Were in 1993 Despite Continued Low Sea Ice

…polar bears in 2024 were even fatter than they were in 1993 and litter sizes of new cubs were just as high, despite continued low sea ice in the region…

Polar bears: They are going extinct!?

We are told that Polar Bears are on hugely threatened by climate change. But does the data support this proposition?

A good year for Svalbard polar bears due to abundant sea ice coverage

This year is probably a good year for Svalbard’s polar bears because there is a lot of sea ice here compared to recent years,” he said [The Guardian, 2 April…

Hudson Bay polar bears now considered most likely to survive future sea ice loss

Over the last 10 years, Hudson Bay polar bears have morphed from being the “most at risk” across the Arctic to the “least at risk.” Who would have thought?

State of the Polar Bear 2023: W. Hudson Bay polar bear numbers have not declined since 2004

From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford In my State of the Polar Bear 2023 report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, I discuss recent news relevant to polar bear conservation and science issues.…

NY Times pushes an implausible story of polar bear evolution and what makes a species

In my opinion, this kind of ‘science communication’ is more misleading than enlightening because it fails to alert readers to the fact that the topic is actually more complicated and…

When polar bears die, they die of starvation: new Nature paper is propaganda, not news

Starvation is a natural cause of death for polar bears and is virtually never caused by lack of sea ice.

Arctic “Just-So Stories”: Bad Science by Climate Alarmists

by Jim Steele The Arctic Ocean was nick-named the “upside down Ocean” by Fridtjof Nansen. Nansen was a famous Norwegian zoologists, oceanographer, and Arctic explorer as well as winner of…

Tom Nelson interview with Susan Crockford about the failed polar bear narrative and rapid evolution

Susan Crockford, a zoologist, discusses the challenges in accurately estimating polar bear populations and the ongoing debate between Inuit communities and polar bear specialists regarding population sizes.

Polar bears and sea ice fail to implode in 2023 as predicted, with special thanks for your support

Contradictions and failed predictions abound.

Churchill end-of-season problem polar bear reports finally published

From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford Today the Town of Churchill finally published the final problem bear reports of the season, which presents an opportunity to do a quick comparison to…

Despite hand-wringing about Churchill polar bears this year, 2023 wasn’t their worst summer

For months, the media has been bleating about the poor polar bears of Churchill suffering from lack of sea ice blamed on human-caused climate change during the so-called ‘hottest year’ on…