New Research Finds Polar Bear Numbers Up 42% Since 2004 – Survival Rates Unaffected By Sea Ice Availability

[Sunsettommy]

No Tricks Zone

New Research Finds Polar Bear Numbers Up 42% Since 2004 – Survival Rates Unaffected By Sea Ice Availability

By Kenneth Richard on 12. March 2018

SELECTED EXCERPT:

The native Inuit peoples who have lived in the Arctic and observed polar bear hunting practices for generations are apparently deserving of the “climate-change denier” moniker.
For that matter, the audacious scientists who risk the ire of the AGW gatekeepers to interview these community leaders and then publish their results in scientific journals apparently must be classified as “climate-change deniers” too.

Why? Because there appears to be widespread agreement among Inuit observers that polar bears are skilled swimmers who can catch seals in open water (and not just from sea ice surfaces). This observation wholly contradicts the “well established” and “overwhelming” scientific evidence identified in Harvey et al. (2017) that says polar bears can only catch seals from a sea ice platform.
“The [native populations’] view of polar bears as effective open-water hunters is not consistent with the Western scientific understanding that bears rely on the sea ice platform for catching prey (Stirling and McEwan, 1975; Smith, 1980). The implications of this disagreement are paramount, given that scientists suggest that the greatest threat to polar bears associated with a decrease in sea ice is a significant decrease in access to marine mammal prey (Stirling and Derocher, 1993; Derocher et al., 2004).” — Laforest et al., 2018

‘There’s Too Many Polar Bears Now’
Not only do the generational observations indicate that polar bears’ hunting practices are not duly harmed by sea ice reduction, but community participants consistently report thriving and growing polar bear populations — especially in recent years.

An extensive analysis by York et al. (2016), relying heavily on native reports, concluded that 12 of 13 Canadian Arctic sub-populations have been stable or growing in recent decades. Wong et al. (2017) recorded Inuit community members reporting “there’s too many polar bears now.”

Even aerial analysis has revealed stable to growing polar bear populations across wide swaths of the Arctic. Aars et al. (2017), for example, report that there is “no evidence” that reduced sea ice has led to a reduction in polar bear population size. To the contrary, these scientists found that polar bears living near the Barents Sea increased in number by 42% — from 685 to 973 — between 2004 and 2015.

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It is distressing that Polar Bears obstinately refuse to decline rapidly when the the Summer Sea ice did from 2007 .....

 

[Rambunctious]

It was all a lie...just like so called man made climate change....all bullshit meant for stupid publicly educated sheep....

 

[Sunsettommy]

It was all a lie...just like so called man made climate change....all bullshit meant for stupid publicly educated sheep....

Yes they lie and refuse to see the evidence, they are too wedded to an ideology that must be defended no matter how absurd it is.

 

[Sunsettommy]

I have noticed that warmist/alarmists have largely dropped their lies over Polar Bears, maybe because it has become an embarrassment to their low summer sea ice----means declining Polar bears claim, an epic failure.

They lied in various ways, and made silly no summer sea ice in the near future predictions, all ended in utter failure.

Maybe they will go back to the Seals again to complain that Polar Bears are eating too many of them!

 

[Sunsettommy]

Watts Up With That?

Annnnnnd…another Canadian polar bear subpopulation is increasing

Charles Rotter / 2 days ago June 1, 2020
Posted on May 31, 2020

Excerpt:

In case you missed it buried in the details of my rebuttal two weeks ago about Facebook labeling a short PragerU polar bear video as “false information”, in his review of the video (18 May 2020) Canadian polar bear biologist Ian Stirling revealed that a recent survey of M’Clintock Channel polar bears documented a population increase. The problem is we have no scientific details about the survey – apparently completed four years ago, in 2016 – because the final report has not been made public (COSEWIC 2018, pp. 42-43; Crockford 2020).

LINK

 

[Sunsettommy]

Watts Up With That?

Spring feeding season almost over for polar bears & sea ice becomes less important

Charles Rotter / 4 hours ago June 5, 2020

Reposted from Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science
Posted on June 4, 2020 |

Excerpt:

Here are ice conditions at the end of May, which signals the near-end of the critical spring feeding period for polar bears. This is because young-of-the-year seals take to the water to feed themselves, leaving only predator-savvy adults and subadults on the ice from some time in June onward (depending on the region).

Spring is the critical feeding period for polar bears (Crockford 2019, 2020; Lippold et al. 2020; Obbard et al. 2016):

LINK

 

[Newtonian]

I see no one is actually posting non-biased accurate information about polar bear habitat and environment. From ENR (Northwest Territories, Canada):

Polar bear | Environment and Climate Change

Information about description, distribution, habitat and diseases of the polar bear in the Northwest Territories.

www.enr.gov.nt.ca

"Distribution
Polar bears are found throughout the circumpolar North. The majority of bears live on sea ice around Canada’s Arctic Islands. The Northwest Territories (NWT) shares three sub-populations of polar bears with neighbouring jurisdictions. These are:

• Southern Beaufort Sea, ~1500 bears
• Northern Beaufort Sea, ~1200 bears
• Viscount Melville Sound, ~200 bears

Back to top
Habitat
Polar bears are as comfortable on land as they are in water and are quite agile in either environment. They follow the ice. In spring, polar bears can be found on the inhospitable land-fast ice and coastal pack ice where they prey primarily on ringed and bearded seals. They are carnivorous bears and meat makes up the majority of their diet. Polar bears are solitary hunters and feed primarily on seals, as well as walrus, whales, fish, and birds.

Once the ice melts in summer, polar bears spend several months on land."

Obviously, Polar bears do not need ice to survive - I doubt this is newly discovered information. From our literature discussing Svalbard, Norway: (2007 article)

Svalbard—Land of the Cold Coasts — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

This is an authorized Web site of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is a research tool for publications in various languages produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

wol.jw.org

"The polar bear, the king of the Arctic, is considered by many to be a marine mammal, since it spends most of its time on sea ice hunting for seals. But you can meet lone bears roaming almost anywhere in Svalbard.....
Although the polar bear population is now rather large in the Svalbard area, there are serious worries about the future of this majestic animal. The Arctic may seem white, fresh, and pure, but toxic pollutants such as PCBs have impacted the environment. The pollutants accumulate in polar bears, since they are at the top of the food chain, and this appears to impair their reproductive ability."

Notice that our literature points to PCB's, not lack of sea ice, as a primary threat to polar bear population. There are many ways man is ruining the earth - global warming is just one example. From one of our articles on ocean pollution:

Oceans—Precious Resource or Global Sewer? — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

This is an authorized Web site of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is a research tool for publications in various languages produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

wol.jw.org

"
All kinds of marine life, from whales to dolphins and seals, get tangled up in abandoned fishing lines and nets. Seals playfully thrust their snouts through discarded plastic rings, and then, unable to get them off again or even to open their mouths, they slowly starve to death. Seabirds get caught up in fishing lines and frantically thrash themselves to death trying to get loose again, and these are not isolated cases. Garbage chokes about one million seabirds and a hundred thousand marine mammals every year.

Chemical pollution has also added its share to the death toll. Last summer, dead seals began to wash up onto the shores of the North Sea. Within months, some 12,000 of the North Sea’s 18,000 harbor seals were wiped out. What killed them? A virus. But there is more to it than that. The billions of gallons of waste regularly poured into the North Sea and the Baltic played a part too, weakening the immune system of the seals and helping the disease to spread.

While pollution is especially concentrated in the Baltic and North seas, an animal would be hard put to find an unpolluted stretch of ocean these days. In the far reaches of the Arctic and the Antarctic, penguins, narwhals, polar bears, fish, and seals all carry traces of man’s chemicals and pesticides in their body tissues. Beluga whale carcasses in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence are considered hazardous waste, so loaded are they with toxins. On the Atlantic coast of the United States, some 40 percent of the area’s dolphins died in just over a year, washing ashore with blisters, lesions, and patches of skin falling off."

Thankfully, our Creator will soon destroy those who are destroying the earth - Revelation 11:18

 

[fncceo]

Anyone have any good recipes for polar bear?

 

[Sunsettommy]

I see no one is actually posting non-biased accurate information about polar bear habitat and environment. From ENR (Northwest Territories, Canada):

Polar bear | Environment and Climate Change

Information about description, distribution, habitat and diseases of the polar bear in the Northwest Territories.

www.enr.gov.nt.ca

"Distribution
Polar bears are found throughout the circumpolar North. The majority of bears live on sea ice around Canada’s Arctic Islands. The Northwest Territories (NWT) shares three sub-populations of polar bears with neighbouring jurisdictions. These are:

• Southern Beaufort Sea, ~1500 bears
• Northern Beaufort Sea, ~1200 bears
• Viscount Melville Sound, ~200 bears

Back to top
Habitat
Polar bears are as comfortable on land as they are in water and are quite agile in either environment. They follow the ice. In spring, polar bears can be found on the inhospitable land-fast ice and coastal pack ice where they prey primarily on ringed and bearded seals. They are carnivorous bears and meat makes up the majority of their diet. Polar bears are solitary hunters and feed primarily on seals, as well as walrus, whales, fish, and birds.

Once the ice melts in summer, polar bears spend several months on land."

Obviously, Polar bears do not need ice to survive - I doubt this is newly discovered information. From our literature discussing Svalbard, Norway: (2007 article)

Svalbard—Land of the Cold Coasts — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

This is an authorized Web site of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is a research tool for publications in various languages produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

wol.jw.org

"The polar bear, the king of the Arctic, is considered by many to be a marine mammal, since it spends most of its time on sea ice hunting for seals. But you can meet lone bears roaming almost anywhere in Svalbard.....
Although the polar bear population is now rather large in the Svalbard area, there are serious worries about the future of this majestic animal. The Arctic may seem white, fresh, and pure, but toxic pollutants such as PCBs have impacted the environment. The pollutants accumulate in polar bears, since they are at the top of the food chain, and this appears to impair their reproductive ability."

Notice that our literature points to PCB's, not lack of sea ice, as a primary threat to polar bear population. There are many ways man is ruining the earth - global warming is just one example. From one of our articles on ocean pollution:

Oceans—Precious Resource or Global Sewer? — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

This is an authorized Web site of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is a research tool for publications in various languages produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

wol.jw.org

"
All kinds of marine life, from whales to dolphins and seals, get tangled up in abandoned fishing lines and nets. Seals playfully thrust their snouts through discarded plastic rings, and then, unable to get them off again or even to open their mouths, they slowly starve to death. Seabirds get caught up in fishing lines and frantically thrash themselves to death trying to get loose again, and these are not isolated cases. Garbage chokes about one million seabirds and a hundred thousand marine mammals every year.

Chemical pollution has also added its share to the death toll. Last summer, dead seals began to wash up onto the shores of the North Sea. Within months, some 12,000 of the North Sea’s 18,000 harbor seals were wiped out. What killed them? A virus. But there is more to it than that. The billions of gallons of waste regularly poured into the North Sea and the Baltic played a part too, weakening the immune system of the seals and helping the disease to spread.

While pollution is especially concentrated in the Baltic and North seas, an animal would be hard put to find an unpolluted stretch of ocean these days. In the far reaches of the Arctic and the Antarctic, penguins, narwhals, polar bears, fish, and seals all carry traces of man’s chemicals and pesticides in their body tissues. Beluga whale carcasses in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence are considered hazardous waste, so loaded are they with toxins. On the Atlantic coast of the United States, some 40 percent of the area’s dolphins died in just over a year, washing ashore with blisters, lesions, and patches of skin falling off."

Thankfully, our Creator will soon destroy those who are destroying the earth - Revelation 11:18

My my, you have become a cut and paste artist, but not once did you actually discuss what Dr. Crockford talked about.

Your write this unsupported bullcrap:

I see no one is actually posting non-biased accurate information about polar bear habitat and environment.

Did you bother to read what Published science papers Dr. Crockford posted in HER article?

Did you know she has a Doctorate in...... ZOOLOGY?

 

[Sunsettommy]

I see that Newtonian is displaying his dishonest deflection technique by COMPLETELY ignoring Post 1, Post 5 and Post 6, after all he did write this unctuous bullshit:

I see no one is actually posting non-biased accurate information about polar bear habitat and environment

Post one was based on Published science research and from Real world observation from the Inuit people who have lived there for centuries.

Post Five was based one at least three published papers

Post Six was based on at least Five published papers

Your cut and paste doesn't impress me, which exposes your limited science literacy skills.

Since you ignored my posts in a thread I started, which means you have nothing to offer as a counterpoint, just more cut and paste bullshit.

You showed no evidence you read the published science papers in my posts at all.

Your narrowminded bias doesn't work here, try debate instead.

 

[Sunsettommy]

PolarBear Science

Shockingly thick first year ice between Barents Sea and the North Pole in mid-July

Posted on July 29, 2019

EXCERPT:

In late June, one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world encountered such extraordinarily thick ice on-route to the North Pole (with a polar bear specialist and deep-pocketed, Attenborough-class tourists onboard) that it took a day and a half longer than expected to get there. A few weeks later, in mid-July, a Norwegian icebreaker also bound for the North Pole (with scientific researchers on board) was forced to turn back north of Svalbard when it unexpectedly encountered impenetrable pack ice.

Apparently, the ice charts the Norwegian captain consulted showed ‘first year ice‘ – ice that formed the previous fall, defined as less than 2 m thick (6.6 ft) – which is often much broken up by early summer. However, what he and his Russian colleague came up against was consolidated first year pack ice up to 3 m thick (about 10 ft). Such thick first year ice was not just unexpected but by definition, should have been impossible.

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Their being surprised never ends....

 

[Crick]

Note the dates on the OP's included comments. That material is antique. Additionally, being based on the observations of Inuit hunters is just about useless. Here is some better data:

Two subpopulations are increasing and they constitute a total of 1,000 - 2,000 animals. Decrease is seen in a population of 6,000 - 8,000 animals. The rest are either stable or unknown. There is NO evidence of massive increase in polar bear populations anywhere in the Arctic environment. And the claim that polar bears are good open water hunters is refuted by NO verified observations of them doing so and the fact that bears closely follow the edge of the ice as it grows and shrinks. The idea that a polar bear can swim out into open ocean and catch seals is absolute nonsense. For starters, the seals do not go there. They also stay close to the ice and to land as they generally feed near the bottom, a zone they cannot reach in the deeper water that the melting cap is exposing. And the differences in their swimming abilities would actually put the bears at risk of being slain and eaten by seals should they make the attempt.

 

[Newtonian]

Note the dates on the OP's included comments. That material is antique. Additionally, being based on the observations of Inuit hunters is just about useless. Here is some better data:

View attachment 346652
Two subpopulations are increasing and they constitute a total of 1,000 - 2,000 animals. Decrease is seen in a population of 6,000 - 8,000 animals. The rest are either stable or unknown. There is NO evidence of massive increase in polar bear populations anywhere in the Arctic environment. And the claim that polar bears are good open water hunters is refuted by NO verified observations of them doing so and the fact that bears closely follow the edge of the ice as it grows and shrinks. The idea that a polar bear can swim out into open ocean and catch seals is absolute nonsense. For starters, the seals do not go there. They also stay close to the ice and to land as they generally feed near the bottom, a zone they cannot reach in the deeper water that the melting cap is exposing. And the differences in their swimming abilities would actually put the bears at risk of being slain and eaten by seals should they make the attempt.

Thank you for the alternate viewpoint. The graph is centered on Arctic ocean areas which would tend to have a decrease in polar bear numbers. My reference was to Northwest Territories, Canada and to Svalbard, Norway. Mostly land areas which may account for the difference. Polar bears may simply be migrating onto land areas.

I will have to research that further....

OK this link highlights the problems:

1. The polar bear is NOT in danger of extinction - those who claim this are giving fodder for climate change deniers.

2. The real problem with global warming in the Arctic is not accurately determined by polar bear populations.

Here is the link:

How the narrative on polar bears has become a problem for Arctic environmental groups - ArcticToday

Our fear that the polar bear is going extinct is perhaps the world’s most powerful symbol of climate change in the Arctic and its global ramifications. Our tremendous attention to the polar bear’s apparently imminent and irrevocable disappearance has continued to grow and grow for years — not...

www.arctictoday.com

A few excerpts:

"How the narrative on polar bears has become a problem for Arctic environmental groups
“When the symbol gets bigger than the region itself and people don’t realize that the polar bear is just one piece of a whole diverse web of life in the Arctic, then it can become almost a barrier.”

By Martin Breum-October 21, 2018"

" According to the most authoritative scientific assessments, the polar bear does not face imminent extinction, and the widespread belief that it does now stands in the way of more nuanced communication about the dramatic effects of climate change in the Arctic. Leanne Clare, senior manager of communications of the WWF’s Arctic Program explained this to me in Finland last week: ....

"“What we are trying to do now is to help people understand that the polar bear is an important part within the region and that it is a part of a very intricate and fragile — some would say resilient — web of life in the Arctic that is at risk. We have to talk about that — for whatever reason people have a huge attachment to polar bears — and then figure out how to utilize this attachment and get people to go beyond this and attach themselves to the Arctic region as such,” she said.

“If we cannot do that, I think it will become much more difficult for us, because then all people want to talk about is: When is it going to go extinct? And if it is not going to go extinct, what is the problem? So rather than always running around with the emergency lights going we need to get people to act more proactively and save this region from climate change.”....

"Some 400 biologists, geographers and other scientists, diplomats and environmentalists attended a congress of CAFF, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, one of the scientific working groups of the Arctic Council, focused on the conservation of biodiversity in the Arctic.

In this community of scientists, it’s been known for some time that the international polar bear campaigns and their implicit story of the threat that the bear will go extinct are problematic. The scientific guardians of the 19 populations of polar bear in the Arctic are connected through the Polar Bear Specialist Group under the UN’s International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, and they never said that the polar bear will go extinct. At the latest assessment in 2015 the IUCN chose to keep the polar bear categorized as a “vulnerable,” but not “endangered” and certainly not “critically endangered,” which is what you are if you are on the brink of extinction....

Some of the 19 polar bear populations, which total about 25,000 animals, are actually growing. In the 1960s and 1970s several populations were under heavy fire from trophy hunters and local Indigenous hunters in the Arctic, but after the signing of the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears in 1973, the bear was given total protection in Russia and Norway, while Canada, the U.S. and Greenland imposed stringent restrictions on polar bear hunting. The rules in Greenland were further tightened, most recently in 2006."

The article goes on to show outright deceptions by the media on the dangers to polar bears - National Geographic actually had to publish a retraction.

Tommy, and other climate change deniers latch on to these deceptions to deny the truths about climate change in the arctic. The Polar bear will not go extinct in upcoming decades - but the arctic and the world will be in deep trouble. The article/link notes:

" “We want people to feel empathy for the people who live in the Arctic and to understand that fighting climate change in the Arctic is part of their own survival. The impacts of climate change on the Arctic has a huge domino effect around the world; it has a huge impact on weather systems and on ocean acidification. Climate change is happening twice as fast in the Arctic than in the rest of the world. We need people to understand that there is an urgent need to act. It is not as if we have 12 more years. Two degrees is already happening in the Arctic and that is what we really have to get people to understand.”"

 

[Sunsettommy]

Note the dates on the OP's included comments. That material is antique. Additionally, being based on the observations of Inuit hunters is just about useless. Here is some better data:

View attachment 346652
Two subpopulations are increasing and they constitute a total of 1,000 - 2,000 animals. Decrease is seen in a population of 6,000 - 8,000 animals. The rest are either stable or unknown. There is NO evidence of massive increase in polar bear populations anywhere in the Arctic environment. And the claim that polar bears are good open water hunters is refuted by NO verified observations of them doing so and the fact that bears closely follow the edge of the ice as it grows and shrinks. The idea that a polar bear can swim out into open ocean and catch seals is absolute nonsense. For starters, the seals do not go there. They also stay close to the ice and to land as they generally feed near the bottom, a zone they cannot reach in the deeper water that the melting cap is exposing. And the differences in their swimming abilities would actually put the bears at risk of being slain and eaten by seals should they make the attempt.

No link and you have completely ignored all of my postings in this thread, thus they remain unchallenged.

Epic Fail.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Note the dates on the OP's included comments. That material is antique. Additionally, being based on the observations of Inuit hunters is just about useless. Here is some better data:

View attachment 346652
Two subpopulations are increasing and they constitute a total of 1,000 - 2,000 animals. Decrease is seen in a population of 6,000 - 8,000 animals. The rest are either stable or unknown. There is NO evidence of massive increase in polar bear populations anywhere in the Arctic environment. And the claim that polar bears are good open water hunters is refuted by NO verified observations of them doing so and the fact that bears closely follow the edge of the ice as it grows and shrinks. The idea that a polar bear can swim out into open ocean and catch seals is absolute nonsense. For starters, the seals do not go there. They also stay close to the ice and to land as they generally feed near the bottom, a zone they cannot reach in the deeper water that the melting cap is exposing. And the differences in their swimming abilities would actually put the bears at risk of being slain and eaten by seals should they make the attempt.

Thank you for the alternate viewpoint. The graph is centered on Arctic ocean areas which would tend to have a decrease in polar bear numbers. My reference was to Northwest Territories, Canada and to Svalbard, Norway. Mostly land areas which may account for the difference. Polar bears may simply be migrating onto land areas.

I will have to research that further....

OK this link highlights the problems:

1. The polar bear is NOT in danger of extinction - those who claim this are giving fodder for climate change deniers.

2. The real problem with global warming in the Arctic is not accurately determined by polar bear populations.

Here is the link:

How the narrative on polar bears has become a problem for Arctic environmental groups - ArcticToday

Our fear that the polar bear is going extinct is perhaps the world’s most powerful symbol of climate change in the Arctic and its global ramifications. Our tremendous attention to the polar bear’s apparently imminent and irrevocable disappearance has continued to grow and grow for years — not...

www.arctictoday.com

A few excerpts:

"How the narrative on polar bears has become a problem for Arctic environmental groups
“When the symbol gets bigger than the region itself and people don’t realize that the polar bear is just one piece of a whole diverse web of life in the Arctic, then it can become almost a barrier.”

By Martin Breum-October 21, 2018"

" According to the most authoritative scientific assessments, the polar bear does not face imminent extinction, and the widespread belief that it does now stands in the way of more nuanced communication about the dramatic effects of climate change in the Arctic. Leanne Clare, senior manager of communications of the WWF’s Arctic Program explained this to me in Finland last week: ....

"“What we are trying to do now is to help people understand that the polar bear is an important part within the region and that it is a part of a very intricate and fragile — some would say resilient — web of life in the Arctic that is at risk. We have to talk about that — for whatever reason people have a huge attachment to polar bears — and then figure out how to utilize this attachment and get people to go beyond this and attach themselves to the Arctic region as such,” she said.

“If we cannot do that, I think it will become much more difficult for us, because then all people want to talk about is: When is it going to go extinct? And if it is not going to go extinct, what is the problem? So rather than always running around with the emergency lights going we need to get people to act more proactively and save this region from climate change.”....

"Some 400 biologists, geographers and other scientists, diplomats and environmentalists attended a congress of CAFF, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, one of the scientific working groups of the Arctic Council, focused on the conservation of biodiversity in the Arctic.

In this community of scientists, it’s been known for some time that the international polar bear campaigns and their implicit story of the threat that the bear will go extinct are problematic. The scientific guardians of the 19 populations of polar bear in the Arctic are connected through the Polar Bear Specialist Group under the UN’s International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, and they never said that the polar bear will go extinct. At the latest assessment in 2015 the IUCN chose to keep the polar bear categorized as a “vulnerable,” but not “endangered” and certainly not “critically endangered,” which is what you are if you are on the brink of extinction....

Some of the 19 polar bear populations, which total about 25,000 animals, are actually growing. In the 1960s and 1970s several populations were under heavy fire from trophy hunters and local Indigenous hunters in the Arctic, but after the signing of the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears in 1973, the bear was given total protection in Russia and Norway, while Canada, the U.S. and Greenland imposed stringent restrictions on polar bear hunting. The rules in Greenland were further tightened, most recently in 2006."

The article goes on to show outright deceptions by the media on the dangers to polar bears - National Geographic actually had to publish a retraction.

Tommy, and other climate change deniers latch on to these deceptions to deny the truths about climate change in the arctic. The Polar bear will not go extinct in upcoming decades - but the arctic and the world will be in deep trouble. The article/link notes:

" “We want people to feel empathy for the people who live in the Arctic and to understand that fighting climate change in the Arctic is part of their own survival. The impacts of climate change on the Arctic has a huge domino effect around the world; it has a huge impact on weather systems and on ocean acidification. Climate change is happening twice as fast in the Arctic than in the rest of the world. We need people to understand that there is an urgent need to act. It is not as if we have 12 more years. Two degrees is already happening in the Arctic and that is what we really have to get people to understand.”"

I see that YOU share your cowardice in debating anything I posted, you call me deniers, but you never explain where Dr. Crockford is wrong.

like Crick, you have nothing here by deflection and avoidance of countering my posts.

Dr. Crockford articles remains unchallenged you afraid of women?

 

[Andylusion]

No Tricks Zone

New Research Finds Polar Bear Numbers Up 42% Since 2004 – Survival Rates Unaffected By Sea Ice Availability

By Kenneth Richard on 12. March 2018

SELECTED EXCERPT:

The native Inuit peoples who have lived in the Arctic and observed polar bear hunting practices for generations are apparently deserving of the “climate-change denier” moniker.
For that matter, the audacious scientists who risk the ire of the AGW gatekeepers to interview these community leaders and then publish their results in scientific journals apparently must be classified as “climate-change deniers” too.

Why? Because there appears to be widespread agreement among Inuit observers that polar bears are skilled swimmers who can catch seals in open water (and not just from sea ice surfaces). This observation wholly contradicts the “well established” and “overwhelming” scientific evidence identified in Harvey et al. (2017) that says polar bears can only catch seals from a sea ice platform.
“The [native populations’] view of polar bears as effective open-water hunters is not consistent with the Western scientific understanding that bears rely on the sea ice platform for catching prey (Stirling and McEwan, 1975; Smith, 1980). The implications of this disagreement are paramount, given that scientists suggest that the greatest threat to polar bears associated with a decrease in sea ice is a significant decrease in access to marine mammal prey (Stirling and Derocher, 1993; Derocher et al., 2004).” — Laforest et al., 2018

‘There’s Too Many Polar Bears Now’
Not only do the generational observations indicate that polar bears’ hunting practices are not duly harmed by sea ice reduction, but community participants consistently report thriving and growing polar bear populations — especially in recent years.

An extensive analysis by York et al. (2016), relying heavily on native reports, concluded that 12 of 13 Canadian Arctic sub-populations have been stable or growing in recent decades. Wong et al. (2017) recorded Inuit community members reporting “there’s too many polar bears now.”

Even aerial analysis has revealed stable to growing polar bear populations across wide swaths of the Arctic. Aars et al. (2017), for example, report that there is “no evidence” that reduced sea ice has led to a reduction in polar bear population size. To the contrary, these scientists found that polar bears living near the Barents Sea increased in number by 42% — from 685 to 973 — between 2004 and 2015.

LINK

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It is distressing that Polar Bears obstinately refuse to decline rapidly when the the Summer Sea ice did from 2007 .....

I am shocked. Shocked I am. Totally shocked I say. SHOCKED!

Everything the left-wingers preach is wrong. Everything. When have they been right about something?

Remember people... 11 years, and we're all dead anyway.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Watts Up With That?

No early breakup for W Hudson Bay sea ice again this year: polar bears still on the ice
Charles Rotter / 5 hours ago June 14, 2020
From Polar Bear Science

Posted on June 14, 2020 | Comments Off on No early breakup for W Hudson Bay sea ice again this year: polar bears still on the ice

No early breakup of Hudson Bay sea ice again this year: there is still extensive thick first year ice over most of Hudson Bay and all female polar bears fitted with tracking collars in Western Hudson Bay are still on the ice:

LINK

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Darn their death and extinction averted another year.......

 

[mamooth]

Since in your first post you said sea ice level doesn't matter, why are you so fixated on it? Busted. You're just flinging out any propaganda you can find. You don't have a coherent theory behind it.

Anways, you gave us a load of trash.

Post #1 -- Links to Inuit attitude surveys. Meaningless.

Post #5 -- Links to papers saying populations increased in the McClintock channel, which everyone agrees is true, and which the science predicted. That's the area where ice isn't decreasing yet. By omitting that fact, you're being dishonest.

Post #6 and Post #11 -- The link didn't talk about polar bear populations. They just mumbled generalities about ice.

So, your crap is refuted. You have jack to back up your claims. You were just pushing dopey propaganda again. And like you always do, you're now going to scream insults to cover your retreat. The fact of your fraud will again remain unchallenged.

I'm going to trust actual surveys instead of your anecdotes and red herrings. Surveys that Dr. Crockford has notably never done. She's just a collector of anecdotes.

Polar bear assessment brings both good and troubling news - WWF Arctic

In October 2019, the Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released a new assessment of polar bears. The findings reveal the most up-to-date information for polar bear populations.

arcticwwf.org

 

[Sunsettommy]

Polar Bear Science

New report: Harp seal population critical to Davis Strait polar bears is still increasing
Posted on May 14, 2020

Excerpt:

The report on the latest population estimate for harp seals off the east coast of North America was released in late March without fanfare and therefore no media attention. This was one of the missing scientific reports mentioned in my State of the Polar Bear Report 2019 released in February (Crockford 2020): results of surveys promised for months or years by early 2020 but not delivered.

Not surprisingly then, we find the report has good news: the population estimate of harp seals in the NW Atlantic has risen to about 7.6 million (range 6.55-8.82) animals (DFO 2020), up from 7.4 million in 2014 (DFO 2014).

LINK

 

[Sunsettommy]

Polar Bear Science

Polar bear habitat in Canada and eastern Alaska compared at end of June 2012-2020
Posted on June 29, 2020

Excerpt:

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.

Similarities between Hudson Bay ice/open water in the sea ice charts below are striking. Ice cover at the end of June shown in these charts since 2012 reinforces the fact, documented in the peer-reviewed literature, that there has been no continued declining trend in dates of sea ice breakup for Western and Southern Hudson Bay since 1998 at least (Castro de la Guardia et al. 2017; Lunn et al. 2016). WH bears are still on the ice.

LINK

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The Sea Ice decline has stopped years ago, which is why the Polar Bear worry about them has been dying out in recent years, but some warmist/alarmists are holding on, because they are too brainwashed to notice that.