Blog Archive

• Biologists allowed David Attenborough to tell BBC viewers that Barents Sea bears were dying of starvation in his 2011 Frozen Planet episode when they knew it wasn’t true
• Barents Sea polar bears thriving despite massive loss of sea ice, study confirms
• Review of my wolf attack thriller DON’T RUN in the National Post
• Sea ice conditions continued to favour Arctic marine life in 2025
• Was a recent wolf encounter near Tofino an aborted predatory attack?
• Polar bears and Arctic sea ice status
• A Wolf Attack Thriller for Christmas
• No News is Good News on Polar Bear Day: Celebrate With 35% Off Polar Bear Evolution
• The US needs to stop using climate model predictions in ESA species assessments
• Churchill seemingly unworried about polar bears, fails to post problem bear reports on social media
• 12 years of Polar Bear Science winding down as I transition to writing Biology Bites on Substack
• Western Hudson Bay sea ice breakup for polar bears like the 1980s for 3 of the last 5 yrs
• Fatal polar bear attack in Davis Strait last week: important details being withheld
• Polar bear “boom” reported in East & Southwest Greenland comes with the usual problems
• W. Hudson Bay sea ice not going away anytime soon as polar bears sit tight offshore
• Last month of Arctic spring fails to bring sea ice to its knees, even in Southern Hudson Bay
• Arctic sea ice at the summer solstice: more polar bear habitat than 2022 after hottest year on record
• New Hudson Bay sea ice modelling paper is more utterly useless fearmongering about polar bears
• Huge area of open water on Hudson Bay created by wind, not ice melt, NSIDC experts confirm
• New data show Svalbard polar bears are fatter than they were in 1993 despite continued low sea ice
• Ian Stirling, grandfather of polar bear biologists, dead at 82
• Polar bears are going extinct? Actually, they’re not! A new video worth watching and sharing
• A good year for Svalbard polar bears due to abundant sea ice coverage
• 2024 Arctic sea ice maximum a whopping 14th below average following hottest year since 1850
• Hudson Bay polar bears now considered most likely to survive future sea ice loss
• State of the Polar Bear 2023: W. Hudson Bay polar bear numbers have not declined since 2004
• NY Times pushes an implausible story of polar bear evolution and what makes a species
• When polar bears die, they die of starvation: new Nature paper is propaganda, not news
• Activists just can’t stop using emotional blackmail to sell the climate change narrative
• Tom Nelson interview with me about the failed polar bear narrative and rapid evolution
• Willie Soon on fire talking to Tucker Carlson about the role of the sun in climate change
• Polar bears and sea ice fail to implode in 2023 as predicted, with special thanks for your support
• Churchill end-of-season problem polar bear reports finally published
• Despite hand-wringing about Churchill polar bears this year, 2023 wasn’t their worst summer
• Western Hudson Bay polar bears on their way offshore to hunt seals: freeze-up has begun
• Polar bear sea ice habitat update at 15 November & problem bears in Western Hudson Bay
• Walrus and polar bear population size changes in the N. Atlantic over the last 20k years
• Polar Bear Evolution pre-Christmas book sale: discounts on all formats!
• Churchill so far has few problems with polar bears despite predictions of a record bad year
• Polar bear researchers hiding significant increase in Southern Hudson Bay numbers
• Feeding time for Russian polar bears as shorefast ice returns to Laptev Sea, ice-generator of the Arctic
• Evolution Earth documentary comments on polar bear survival & adaptation: let’s see how they do
• 17 years of near-zero trend in September sea ice demolishes claim that more CO2 means less sea ice
• New study that claims it can directly link GHG emissions to polar bear cub survival is poppycock
• W. Hudson Bay polar bear numbers declined 27% in 2021 but not because of missing ice: secret paper
• “10k dead penguin chicks” more animal tragedy porn used to advance global warming agenda
• Activists try to reboot Pacific walrus as climate change icons just as numbers reach a new high
• Conservation officers misleading the public about polar bear problems in Churchill
• Climate activists are silent on polar bears because their doom-mongering blew up in their faces
• Repeat of 2013 high-profile Sierra Club polar bear attack, this time with Inuit victims
• Polar bear habitat around Svalbard Norway above average despite high temps in N. Atlantic
• More Barents Sea polar bear habitat at mid-July 2023 than in 2012 despite more atmospheric CO2
• Hudson Bay sea ice loss has not accelerated since 2014: in fact, summer ice cover has improved
• Natural flexibility explains W Hudson Bay polar bear movements at breakup better than climate change
• Impressive cougar attack in Utah caught on film
• Early sea ice breakup in W Hudson Bay caused by “record breaking” warmth in 2023 but not 2015?
• No evidence polar bears survived Eemian warmth because they were not yet fully ice-dependent
• Claims of interspecies hanky-panky have unfairly sullied polar bear & Neanderthal reputations
• New evidence that polar bears survived 1,600 years of ice-free summers in the early Holocene
• How grizzlies evolved into polar bears: The first book to tell the whole story is now available
• Polar bear sea ice habitat near the end of Arctic spring 2023
• Grizzlies vs. grizzly X polar bear hybrids by appearance alone: a photo essay
• The story of polar bear evolution could not be told without discussing climate change
• How is widespread use of helicopters to study polar bears defensible in a warming world?
• Polar bears in W. Hudson Bay are in good shape, says researcher. So are numbers really falling?
• Roald Amundsen tried and failed to tame a polar bear cub in 1920
• Attenborough expects King Charles to continue his activism
• 17th century documents & 1970s ice maps show sea ice habitat in Svalbard has always varied greatly
• Netflix polar bear star dies in Svalbard days after being tranquilized; her orphaned cub is shot
• Earth Day sea ice habitat during critical spring season for Arctic seals, polar bears, and walrus
• ‘Less ice means more conflicts with polar bears’ narrative not supported by scientific evidence
• Russian walrus and polar bears continue to thrive US researchers tell the Washington Post
• Winter sea ice habitat for polar bears still abundant enough to sustain a thriving species
• Southern Labrador coastal landscape dominated by fat polar bears in March
• 15 years after ESA listing as ‘threatened’ due to sea ice loss polar bears are abundant & thriving
• Return of Svalbard sea ice in time for seal births and the polar bear feeding bonanza
• Birthing season for harp seals in Labrador Sea just in time to feed hungry polar bears
• Ice-entrapped dolphins in Newfoundland lucky not to have been eaten by polar bears
• Polar bear sightings and sea ice conditions in Newfoundland & Labrador 2023 vs. 2017
• Early-birthing polar bear female with new cubs out on the ice already in Western Hudson Bay
• Polar Wildlife Report reveals Arctic and Antarctic animals were thriving in 2022
• Published field study observations – not population size – prove polar bears are thriving
• Low mid-winter polar bear habitat in Barents Sea spawns warnings of more human-bear conflicts
• Polar bear evolution book is progressing well
• Polar bear that mauled to death Alaskan mother and baby was an adult male in poor condition
• Emperor penguin ESA listing in 2022 used Antarctic sea ice models known to be flawed
• Lomborg responds to polar bear abundance challenge
• Two dead in fatal polar bear attack in Alaskan village of Wales on the Bering Strait
• No more WEF backroom deals for Sir David Attenborough?
• Here comes the pack ice for the Canadian East Coast
• Activist fact-checkers are misleading the public on polar bear numbers
• Recent paper on W. Hudson Bay polar bears includes new official sea ice freeze-up data
• Svalbard walrus thrive in the face of sea ice decline, mocking predictions of future catastrophe
• Inuit in Arctic Canada now observing higher numbers of polar bears, says government report
• Where were the starving W. Hudson Bay polar bears in 2020 if the population had declined by 2021?
• W. Hudson Bay polar bear population decline stories are unethical and ignore critical caveats
• Happy Solstice – it’s all uphill from here!
• Polar bears of SE Greenland get shorefast ice necessary to hunt seals: not so unique after all
• No evidence for BBC claim that Churchill is simply getting too warm for polar bears
• Arctic Report: primary productivity still high & sea ice flatline continues despite warmer temperatures