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- This is shaping up to be a great year for Hudson Bay bears!
- New Paper Polar Bears Attracted to Garbage Dumps Blames Lack of Sea Ice Without Any Evidence Sun, 24 Jul 22, 11:00pmAll you need to know about the motivation behind the paper comes from the authors’ acknowledgement:
- Arctic Sea Ice Still Quite Abundant for Early Summer Fri, 15 Jul 22, 7:00amForget about whether the numbers are below or above some short-term average, there is no catastrophe in the making for marine mammals in the Arctic at this time.
- Claim: Data Exists Showing Polar Bear Body Condition Improves Over Summer On Sea Ice Fri, 1 Jul 22, 11:00amI 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’.
- Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bear Habitat at the Summer Solstice is Above Average Mon, 27 Jun 22, 3:00amSea ice is well above recent levels for this time of year in the Southern Beaufort and only time will tell if that’s bad news for polar bears.
- New Polar Bear Subpopulation Update: More Background Facts and Details from the Paper Sat, 25 Jun 22, 7:00pmAs a consequence, the media have been trying to out-do each other with the most over-the-top climate catastrophe headlines,
- Newly-discovered SE Greenland Polar Bear Subpopulation: Another Assumption Proven False Sun, 19 Jun 22, 3:00amI’m thrilled to see evidence that glacier-front habitat can support a small polar bear population even without summer sea ice.
- Dr. Susan Crockford, For the Win, Booyah! Thu, 9 Jun 22, 11:00amThere is actual evidence that two of my fully-referenced blog posts caused some Antarctic Treaty delegates to reject a bid for special protected status for Emperor penguins. Activist heads have exploded.
- Polar Bear Habitat in Canada Over the Last Decade: Spring Sea Ice Not in a Death Spiral Mon, 30 May 22, 3:00amSea ice extent in Canada at the height of Arctic spring over the last 10 years has been more like a gentle roller coaster than a death spiral.
- Polynyas are Critical for Polar Bear Spring Feeding Thu, 19 May 22, 7:00amSea ice is still abundant in spring (April-June), which is the critical feeding period for polar bears: they must consume about 2/3 of the total calories they need for the entire year.
- Wandering Polar Bears Are The New Starving Bears Falsely Blamed On Climate Change: Déjà Vu Sat, 14 May 22, 11:00amAlthough not one of the Canadian news outlets that reported on the fat polar bear that was shot after unexpectedly showing up on the Gaspé peninsula two weeks ago blamed this incident on global warming, a few...
- Ancient Polar Bear Remains Explained By Sea Ice and Polynyas: My Peer-Reviewed Paper Sat, 7 May 22, 7:00amFrom Polar Bear Science Dr. Susan Crockford My open-access, peer-reviewed paper on the ecology of ancient polar bears in relation to sea ice has just been published in Open Quaternary. It’s…
- Explaining Abundant Polar Bear Sightings on The East Coast as An Upshot of Sea Ice Loss Is Absurd Sun, 1 May 22, 11:00pmLast week, a senior producer at CBC News, in order to concoct a timely story for ‘Earth Day’, attempted to explain the high number of sightings of polar bears this April in Newfoundland and Labrador, compared to the...
- Dispelling The Doomsday Propaganda In DisneyNature’s New Polar Bear ‘Documentary’ Sat, 23 Apr 22, 11:00pmIn short, there is still no climate emergency for polar bears: the hype is based on old models that failed spectacularly and new ones which depend on old data and totally improbable climate scenarios (Crockford 2017,...
- National Geographic’s Misinformation about Forests and Climate Change Sat, 16 Apr 22, 3:00pmThe real issue is why would anyone trust National Geographic and their obsession with pushing climate change misinformation?