Those Damn Polar Bears Refuse to Die

Those damn Polar Bears just aren’t dying the way we said they would, but it might/could/may/perhaps happen in the future.

Early sea ice breakup in W Hudson Bay caused by “record breaking” warmth in 2023 but not 2015?

…what caused the ice to retreat more than two weeks earlier in 2015?

Polar bears in W. Hudson Bay are in good shape, says researcher. So are numbers really falling?

…polar bears his team saw in April while installing collars and ear tags were in good shape this year…

Polar bear sightings and sea ice conditions in Newfoundland & Labrador 2023 vs. 2017

Conservation officials issued an alert to residents of coastal communities to be aware of polar bears coming ashore

Where were the starving W. Hudson Bay polar bears in 2020 if the population had declined by 2021?

This makes it all the more significant that they have provided no actual evidence that WH bears are indeed starving to death in sufficient numbers to substantiate a 40% decline…

Still waiting for two thirds of polar bears worldwide to disappear due to lack of summer sea ice

The experts failed to account for the fact that less summer ice means more primary productivity and therefore, more food for seals and therefore, more food for bears (Coupel and Devred 2019;…

Few bears on the ice off Western Hudson Bay at 14 August but will be onshore soon

Polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher published a tracking map of his collared polar bear females that shows one bear (out of 11) still on the rapidly diminishing ice north of…

A note to the University of Alberta – timing is everything

From the apparently out of touch with reality University of Alberta , comes this poorly timed headline that made me laugh out loud when I read it, because of this…