Links tagged “polar bear”
- Polar Bear Expert: ‘The annual minimum reached in late summer has little impact on polar bear health and survival. What matters most to polar bears is the presence of ample ice in spring and early summer (March-June), which is their critical feeding period’
- Greenpeace protests Arctic drilling as polar bears flourish
- ‘It seems like everything is at an all-time high except the temperature’
'CO2 levels are at an all-time high, there are more Polar Bears than ever, there is more Antarctic Sea Ice than there has ever been and even more Arctic sea ice than we’ve seen in a decade. The only thing that is not going up is the temperature. We are experiencing one of the coldest years on record. Maybe those 70′s [global cooling] scientists were right after all'
- New Peer-Reviewed Study: Polar Bear Population Growing Despite Declining Sea Ice
'Exciting news about polar bears in eastern Canada: the peer-reviewed paper on the Davis Strait subpopulation study has finally been published (Peacock et al. 2013). It concludes that despite sea ice having declined since the 1970s, polar bear numbers in Davis Strait have not only increased to a greater density (bears per 1,000 km2) than other seasonal-ice subpopulations (like Western Hudson Bay), but it may now have reached its ‘carrying capacity.’ This is great news. But where is the shouting from the roof-tops? This peer-reviewed paper (with its juicy details of method and analysis results), considered by some to be the only legitimate format for communicating science, was published February 19, 2013. No press release was issued that I could find and consequently, there was no news coverage. Funny, that.'
