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.
Tag: Hudson Bay
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.…
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?
Hudson Bay Sea Ice Freeze-Up in 2022 Like the 1980s for the 5th Time Since 2015
This is the fifth year out of the last seven that enough sea ice has formed along the west coast of Hudson Bay by mid-November for bears to be able…
Polar bear habitat update: ice forming along Hudson Bay, Wrangel & Franz Josef Islands surrounded
Western Hudson Bay polar bears near Churchill will be able to leave shore within days, at most one week later than in the 1980s, although you wouldn’t know that from…
Last WH polar bears ashore even later than 2009 as Hudson Bay finally becomes ice-free
Don’t forget: this is the subpopulation that polar bear specialists use to model the future of all bears, everywhere in the Arctic but only use stale data from the 2000s because including more recent…
Hudson Bay Sea Ice Update: Many Polar Bears are Still on Low Concentration Ice Offshore
This is shaping up to be a great year for Hudson Bay bears!
Claim: Data Exists Showing Polar Bear Body Condition Improves Over Summer On Sea Ice
I would seriously like to know which paper or papers this data appears in but of course, he doesn’t provide that information. Instead, it’s ‘trust me, I’m the expert’.
Promoters of Polar Bear Catastrophe in Hudson Bay Gloss Over Recent Good Ice Conditions
Finally, as for the suggestion of an imminent ‘zombie’ polar bear population in Western Hudson Bay, isn’t it funny that Derocher failed to point out that the slower-than-usual freeze-up of Hudson Bay…
Sea Ice Cometh to Hudson Bay: Freeze-Up has Begun
Compared to two days ago, there is now abundant ice along the western shore of Hudson Bay, both in the north and the south:
Late Freeze-Up For W. Hudson Bay Polar Bears At Odds With Ice Conditions Elsewhere
There was so little ice on the west shore of Hudson Bay yesterday it is barely visible on the NSIDC global chart yet there was abundant ice in the Chukchi…
Western Hudson Bay polar bears: still some out on the sea ice, some causing trouble
As of Monday (19 July), more polar bears had come ashore near Churchill and on the shores of Wakusp National Park but some are still out on the bay. The…
Polar bears have begun to come ashore on Western Hudson Bay
So far, the first evidence I’ve seen of a bear ashore in Western Hudson Bay was one photographed near Churchill Manitoba on 28 June (below).
Polar bear habitat update and the progress of breakup on Hudson Bay
From Polar Bear Science Posted on June 17, 2021 At mid-month, there is still an abundance of thick first year ice over much of Hudson Bay, suggesting that – yet again…
The conundrum of Hudson Bay bears that left shore late in 1983 with video from CBC archives
In 1983, it was claimed that freeze-up of Hudson Bay was so late that polar bears didn’t leave the shore until the 4th of December – several weeks later than…
Polar bear research on hold in Western Hudson Bay due to COVID-19 restrictions
After spring polar bear research was cancelled in Western Hudson Bay (and pretty much everywhere else) this year because of Covid 19 concerns, it now transpires that fall research is…
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…
Polar Bears Defy SCIENCE! by Refusing to Die.
This pattern of bears staying out on the ice long after the so-called ‘critical threshold’ of 50% concentration has passed has been going on since at least 2015 and many…
Polar bear habitat in Canada and eastern Alaska compared at end of June 2012-2020
Here is a quick compare and contrast of sea ice habitat for polar bears in Canada and the Southern Beaufort region of eastern Alaska near the end of June, 2012-2020.
You must be logged in to post a comment.