I wrote about this issue in January (January – and journalists are still pushing it).
Figure 1. Courtesy NY Times, Sept. 22 2014. Click to enlarge.
This month, the New York Times (September 22, 2014 James Gorman, “For Polar Bears, a Climate Change Twist”) is pushing it big-time (and so it’s been picked up elsewhere, like by the Anchorage Daily News).
Myths and misinformation about this phenomenon dispelled below.
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