Ahead of International Polar Bear Day (27 February) this year, polar bear habitat is as abundant as it has been for decades. This is a tough time for polar bears, many of which will be finding it hard to find seals to eat, as newborn seals won’t be an available food resource for about a month in most areas. Thin and hungry bears are dangerous.
Sea ice charts below for the Arctic as a whole and by region.
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Tagged habitat, polar bear, sea ice, winter
In this essay, I explain in simple terms why The Great Reset concept of the WEF (which not only includes a large climate change component but is also linked to Covid-19 restrictions) is conceptually unsound but so dangerous that it sparked a Canadian uprising that is spreading around the world.
Update 19 Feb 2022: see below, from Canadian parliament when questions are asked about cabinet members ‘on board’ with WEF agenda.
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Posted in Advocacy, Book promotion, walrus
Tagged covid-19, Freedom Convoy 2022, Great Reset, Our Planet, pandemic, Trudeau, WEF, World Economic Forum
Last week, I got an email from a polar bear scientist I have interacted with a few times. Not one of the big names but aside from that, I’ll leave their identity private. The email was polite and I tried to respond in kind. I have copied it here because others may have had similar concerns.
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Posted in Advocacy, science, Sea ice habitat
Polar bear scientists in 1965 published a consensus statement on population size, with no caveats that these were ‘wild guesses’ or not to be taken seriously. They quoted some of the same authorities that I did when I suggested a plausible baseline figure. Andrew Derocher, Steven Amstrup and others who say there has never been population estimates for the 1960 or 1970s are not defending science, they are lying to protect their ‘polar bears are all gonna die because of climate change’ narrative. No other biologists do this, even those who insist the species they study are at risk from human-caused global warming. You should ask why.
This controversy is why archives like the one I created yesterday are so important: they make it impossible to re-write history as some insist on doing:
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Posted in Advocacy, Conservation Status, Population
Tagged advocacy, baseline, climate change, conservation, estimate, population size, Uspenski
The IUCN/SCC Polar Bear Specialist Group have recently modernized their website, which apparently required them to remove all meeting reports and status documents going back to 1968. Since I had downloaded all of them for my own research, I have archived them here for anyone wishing to assess the accuracy of statements made by PGSG members about what they did or said in the past, or to understand the history of the organization. I did something similar a few years ago regarding the administrative reports used in 2007 to support the decision to list polar bears as ‘threatened’ under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), which disappeared from the US Geological Survey website: they can now be found here.
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Posted in Archive, Conservation Status, Population, Summary
Tagged Archive, IUCN, meeting reports, PBSG, Polar Bear Specialist Group, status reports, status tables
The so-called fact-checkers are out again trying to insist one side of a scientific debate is wrong and another is right because they happen to agree with one side. That’s advocacy, not science.
Here are some facts (check the links provided for additional references):
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Posted in Advocacy, Conservation Status, Population, Sea ice habitat, Summary
Tagged advocacy, facts, integrity, polar bear, population size, science, sea ice
Pack ice is barreling down the Labrador coast, almost certainly bringing Davis Strait polar bears with it. And according to new survey results, those bears are doing just fine: numbers are stable, bears are fatter than they were in 2007, and cubs are surviving well – thanks largely to abundant harp seals.
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Posted in Population, Sea ice habitat
Tagged harp seals, Labrador, Newfoundland, polar bear, population counts, sea ice, survey
In Fallen Icon, I included a chapter about that infamous National Geographic video that falsely claimed an emaciated polar bear was starving because of climate change. Although I really thought at first that Attenborough’s falling walrus fiasco was the same over-zealous promotion of animal tragedy porn we were all used to seeing from activists, digging deep showed how wrong I was.
It was important to document these phenomena, in print, for the historical record. But on top of that, I bring the science and the hidden facts to light in Fallen Ichttps://atomic-temporary-38650637.wpcomstaging.com/2022/01/18/fallen-icon-sir-david-attenborough-and-the-walrus-deception-is-now-available/on and reveal the difference between the two campaigns.
See if you agree. And please do take the time to leave a review on Amazon for the benefit of future readers.
Fallen Icon: Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception
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Posted in Advocacy, Book promotion, science, walrus
Tagged animal tragedy porn, Attenborough, investigative reporting, National Geographic, polar bear, science, starving polar bear, walrus
David Attenborough has been a close family friend to the Queen and the rest of the royal family for decades; he and the Queen are the same age and run in the same elite social circle of money, power, and influence.
“The two icons of British culture were both born in London in 1926, only weeks apart. The Queen is the slightly older of the pair, born on April 21, and Sir David followed suit on May 8. Although their connection is particularly special, Sir David is also close with other members of the Royal Family, including Prince Charles, Prince Harry, and Prince William.” Woman and Home, 24 January 2022.
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Tagged activists, Attenborough, climate change, elite, Fallen Icon, Great Reset, WEF, WWF
Russian wildlife photographer Dmitry Kokh took some photos and video last year of polar bears hunkered down at an abandoned weather station on the Chukchi Sea coast and he apparently won a prize for one of them, shown below. The shots are very cool, so I’ve provided some context for the story and posted the video here.
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Posted in Life History, Sea ice habitat
Tagged Attenborough, Cape Serdtse-Kamen, Chukchi Sea, Demitry Kokh, Kolyuchin Island, polar bear, sea ice, video, weather station
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