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Declining ice, if happening, not really harming bear populations.
POLAR BEARS MAY HAVE QUADRUPLED IN NUMBER DESPITE MELTING ARCTIC ICE, BOOK SAYS
11:13 AM 03/19/2019 | ENERGY
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
Polar bear numbers may have quadrupled in the last 50 years, according to a new book critiquing the alarmist predictions of polar bear population collapse.
“My scientific estimates make perfect sense and they tally with what the Inuit and other Arctic residents are seeing on the ground,” Susan Crockford, a Canadian zoologist, said in a statement Tuesday on her book’s release.
Crockford’s book, “The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened,” argues that, in contrast to the dire predictions made by experts over a decade ago, polar bears are thriving. In fact, she argues polar populations may have quadrupled since the 1960s from roughly 10,000 to 40,000.
“Almost everywhere polar bears come into contact with people, they are much more common than they used to be. It’s a wonderful conservation success story,” said Crockford, who’s also an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Crockford, through her personal blog, has criticized those dire predictions. Crockford says polar bear populations have risen or stabilized in the last 15 years or so despite the fact that sea ice levels declined faster than experts predicted.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/19/polar-bears-arctic-ice/
Longest Polar Bear Swim Recorded—426 Miles Straight
Study predicts more long-distance swims due to shrinking sea ice.
BY ANNE CASSELMAN, FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS
https://news.nationalgeographic.com...s-global-warming-sea-ice-science-environment/
POLAR BEARS MAY HAVE QUADRUPLED IN NUMBER DESPITE MELTING ARCTIC ICE, BOOK SAYS
11:13 AM 03/19/2019 | ENERGY
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
Polar bear numbers may have quadrupled in the last 50 years, according to a new book critiquing the alarmist predictions of polar bear population collapse.
“My scientific estimates make perfect sense and they tally with what the Inuit and other Arctic residents are seeing on the ground,” Susan Crockford, a Canadian zoologist, said in a statement Tuesday on her book’s release.
Crockford’s book, “The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened,” argues that, in contrast to the dire predictions made by experts over a decade ago, polar bears are thriving. In fact, she argues polar populations may have quadrupled since the 1960s from roughly 10,000 to 40,000.
“Almost everywhere polar bears come into contact with people, they are much more common than they used to be. It’s a wonderful conservation success story,” said Crockford, who’s also an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Crockford, through her personal blog, has criticized those dire predictions. Crockford says polar bear populations have risen or stabilized in the last 15 years or so despite the fact that sea ice levels declined faster than experts predicted.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/19/polar-bears-arctic-ice/
Longest Polar Bear Swim Recorded—426 Miles Straight
Study predicts more long-distance swims due to shrinking sea ice.
BY ANNE CASSELMAN, FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS
https://news.nationalgeographic.com...s-global-warming-sea-ice-science-environment/