I kept a close watch on the website of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) over the weekend to see if an actual population status update might eventually appear (see my last post).
Nothing all weekend, but today (Monday, February 3), the “Population status – Status table” tab (where the 2010 status table was inserted on Friday), returned an error message — the out-of-date status table put up on the day an updated one was promised was simply gone.
However, I noticed that the last sentence of the original December 16, 2013 “Population status reviews“ announcement had been changed, without any indication that it had been amended.
From December 16, 2013 until February 2, 2014 that last sentence said:
“The new status table and assessments will be published as they are available in web format no later than February 1, 2014.”
Now it reads:
“The new status table and assessments will be published as they are available in web format in February, 2014.” [my bold]
The date stamp on this page is February 3, 2014, see screen cap below.
What do you call this — “Bayesian transparency”? I think it means a polar bear population status update may be forthcoming…sometime.
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