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.
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Polar bears and sea ice fail to implode in 2023 as predicted, with special thanks for your support
Contradictions and failed predictions abound.
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…
Western Hudson Bay polar bears on their way offshore to hunt seals: freeze-up has begun
…so far, there have been no reports from this region of incidents of cannibalism, starving bears found wandering the landscape like zombies, or desperate attacks on people that polar bear specialists have warned us to expect (Abrahms et al.…
Polar bear sea ice habitat update at 15 November & problem bears in Western Hudson Bay
Abundant polar bear habitat this fall across the Arctic so far, with only Hudson Bay sea ice formation a bit behind schedule.
Walrus and polar bear population size changes in the N. Atlantic over the last 20k years
the walrus research conclusions are much better supported, less biased by climate change rhetoric, and lack the hubris present in the polar bear paper
Polar bear researchers hiding significant increase in Southern Hudson Bay numbers
And surprise, surprise: the bombshell SH results call into question everything the ‘experts’ have been saying about polar bears in Hudson Bay for years.
Feeding time for Russian polar bears as shorefast ice returns to Laptev Sea, ice-generator of the Arctic
Sea ice formation along shorelines attracts fish and seals and that means polar bears which spent the summer onshore will soon eat again after their summer fast.
New Study that Claims it Can Directly Link GHG Emissions to Polar Bear Cub Survival is Poppycock
A global warming miracle has happened.
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.
Hudson Bay sea ice loss has not accelerated since 2014: in fact, summer ice cover has improved
Hardly the ever-worsening catastrophe of sea ice loss story being spun in the media for Western Hudson Bay polar bears.
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?
No evidence polar bears survived Eemian warmth because they were not yet fully ice-dependent
There is no evidence that polar bears survived Eemian warmth because they weren’t yet fully ice-dependent or that polar bears in the future could live on land like grizzlies if…
New evidence that polar bears survived 1,600 years of ice-free summers in the early Holocene
From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford New evidence indicates that Arctic areas with the thickest ice today probably melted out every year during the summer for about 1,600 years during the…
The story of polar bear evolution could not be told without discussing climate change
It’s logical to assume this speciation event happened during a cold interglacial, but which one?
How is widespread use of helicopters to study polar bears defensible in a warming world?
…the lifeblood of most polar bear research is jet fuel needed by helicopters
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…
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