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- Speculation on ice-trapped whales: science-based fiction vs. dishonest science
- UPHEAVAL – my new ice tsunami novel – is now available!
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Derocher admits Western Hudson Bay polar bear population may not be declining
Earlier this year, I challenged a journalist to ask to see the data used by Andrew Derocher and his colleagues to support their repeated claims that Western Hudson Bay polar bears are having trouble surviving. It almost happened. David Rose, … Continue reading
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Posted in Conservation Status, Polar bear attacks, Population
Tagged Arviat, attacks, body condition, cub survival, Derocher, estimates, fat, Hudson Bay, polar bear, population, problem bears, sea ice
Polar bear population numbers are for kids, says specialist Andrew Derocher
Polar bear specialists made global population numbers the focus of the world’s attention when they predicted a dramatic decline and possible extinction of the species. But now that the numbers have increased slightly rather than declined, the same scientists say … Continue reading
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Tagged Amstrup, Derocher, estimates, global warming, polar bear, population decline, population numbers, predictions
Polar Bear Science envy – polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher steals my blog name
I’ve got an imitator! It appears that a recently created website promoting polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher’s lab at the University of Alberta just happens to have the same title as my blog: Polar Bear Science. Oscar Wilde said: “Imitation … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, advocacy, Derocher, fake, imitation, polar bear, polar bear science, science
Andrew Derocher raises the “starving polar bears” issue in DailyMail interview
In what looks like a follow-up to last week’s CBC documentary, The Politics of Polar Bears, the London (UK) based DailyMail published interviews with polar bear biologists Mitch Taylor and Andrew Derocher (September 9, 2014). The CBC film did have … Continue reading
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Posted in Advocacy, Conservation Status, Sea ice habitat
Tagged caribou, conservation, DailyMail, Derocher, fasting, goose eggs, Gormezano, ice-free season, Mitch Taylor, polar bears, Rockwell, sea ice, sea ice decline, starving, survival, terrestrial foods, weight loss, western hudson bay
Collapse of polar bear snow dens – Stirling and Derocher’s anecdotal evidence
In their summary of facts supposedly supporting the premise that global warming is already having an impact on polar bear populations (discussed previously here, here, and here), biologists Ian Stirling and Andrew Derocher (2012:2700) include a list of incidents of … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, anecdotal evidence, den collapse, Derocher, rain on snow events, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., snow, Stirling, threatened, warm weather
Stirling and Derocher’s sea ice trick – omitting facts to make polar bears appear endangered
Polar bear biologists Ian Stirling and Andrew Derocher continue to insist that western Hudson Bay (WHB) polar bears are already showing negative effects of reduced sea ice due to global warming. In their 2012 summary paper (Stirling and Derocher 2012), … Continue reading
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Tagged Derocher, global temperature, Hudson Bay breakup, Michael Mann, Stirling, truncated data, University of Victoria, unpublished data
Andrew Derocher refuses to accept that polar bears have been saved
Andrew Derocher, an known polar bear advocate, has been making headlines again, this time promoting a new “policy paper” he is lead author on that has just been accepted for publication. He and his colleagues simply refuse to accept that … Continue reading
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Tagged CITES, commercial harvest, Derocher, heavy sea ice, Hudson Bay, mortality events, Polar Bear Specialist Group, threatened, unpublished data
Another polar bear advocate writes a book: Derocher and Lynch 2012
Polar Bears: A Complete Guide to their Biology and Behavior (2012) Text by Andrew E. Derocher, Photographs by Wayne Lynch, in association with Polar Bears International. Johns Hopkins University Press 264 pp. 153 color photos, 4 maps. 978-1-4214-0305-2 $39.95 hardcover … Continue reading
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Polar bears can come ashore any time of year and cause trouble: a timely reminder
If you thought polar bears were only a danger to people in summer when sea ice is low, think again. Bears do occasionally come ashore early to mid-winter looking for food because hunting is difficult and they are approaching their … Continue reading
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Tagged attacks, attractants, Labrador, polar bear, problem bear, sea ice, winter
Arctic report card 2020 highlights the huge benefit of less summer sea ice: more food
As well as summarizing sea ice changes, NOAA’s 2020 Arctic Report Card features two reports that document the biggest advantage of much less summer sea ice than there was before 2003: increased primary productivity. Being at the top of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic food chain, bearded seal, bowhead whale, NOAA, polar bear, primary productivity, ringed seal, sea ice, walrus
