Ian Stirling’s latest howler: “the polar bear who died of climate change”
Will wildlife biologist and Polar Bear Specialist Group member Ian Stirling now say anything – no matter how unscientific – to garner more sympathy and media attention for polar bears? It appears so....
View ArticleChurchill polar bear attack shamelessly used to advance global warming agenda
I guess Suzanne Goldenberg, writing for The Guardian, just couldn’t help herself with this latest story (November 4): “Polar bear attacks: scientists warn of fresh dangers in warming Arctic. Two people...
View ArticlePolar bears and melting ice: three facts that shouldn’t surprise you
If I was invited by USA TODAY to discuss how climate change is affecting polar bears now – summed up in three talking points – this is what I’d say. I’d use some meaningful images rather than cute...
View ArticleAndrew Derocher raises the “starving polar bears” issue in DailyMail interview
In what looks like a follow-up to last week’s CBC documentary, The Politics of Polar Bears, the London (UK) based DailyMail published interviews with polar bear biologists Mitch Taylor and Andrew...
View ArticlePolar bear habitat looking good for early summer – last days before the fast
Some polar bears may already be living mostly off the fat put on over the spring but others may catch a seal or two on the sea ice before the summer fast begins – since the ice hasn’t left the coast in...
View ArticleSummer habitat for most polar bears is either shoreline or sea ice in the...
At this time of year, sea ice extent numbers are meaningless for polar bears. The extreme low September minimum of 2012 – when masses of polar bears didn’t die – showed rational people that this is...
View ArticleThick sea ice in the Western Arctic is not good habitat for polar bears,...
A few weeks into the Arctic summer (July-September), sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is dominated by thick, multi-year ice. At this time of year, multi-year ice is an important refuge habitat...
View ArticleWestern Hudson Bay polar bears on their way offshore to hunt seals: freeze-up...
Official confirmation has come in this morning that polar bears that have spent the summer fasting along Western Hudson Bay now have enough ice to move offshore. That makes this year a bit later than...
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