I have some affinity for the polar bears.
They're nice, they're reasonably close to me, and they drive the right people out of their minds
You see, according to the climate lords (aka the delusion of our time), their grip on the public as well as reality gradually waning, they should be dying in spades: starving and boiling over. Arctic ice disappearing, no food, they wash up on the shores famished and will all be gone in a minute... of course, the Arctic ice is still there, refusing to budge in size more than marginally over decades... aaaand the polar bears are having the time of their lives.
What's even more interesting is that indigenous peoples of Canada et al. for years have said, look guys, polar bears everywhere; they are doing SO FINE; too fine, can be please get rid of some?
And the same woke climate-alarmed asshats, holding the truth that every native non-Western peoples must be absolutely correct in everything they say (at least about their own circumstances), were in a pickle.
Alas, it no seems the settled science may have shifted:
The BBC reported terrible news last week about polar bears: they are thriving. This is very annoying of them as it goes against the interests of environmental activists, polar bears being the very emblem, mascot and clickbait of climate change cataclysm. But the bears’ stubborn refusal to get the memo and starve has become too obvious to ignore.
Surprisingly, they are also getting fatter, according to measurements taken when bears are caught and weighed. This is despite a decline in sea-ice cover in the area, especially in autumn. Even more unexpectedly, the bears are fattest in or after years when the sea ice retreats farthest.
Oops:
This follows a similar report the year before from the Chukchi Sea, north of the Bering Strait, where the bears are also thriving in both number and health as the sea ice retreats. Some other populations, in Hudson Bay and the Beaufort Sea, are doing less well, but overall polar bear numbers have probably more than doubled since the 1960s and are still growing. ... The US Geological Survey predicted in 2007 that their numbers would fall by two-thirds by 2050, starting much sooner.
To see bears on the west coast of Spitsbergen in those days was all but unknown, let alone in town. Now bears turn up near Longyearbyen regularly, and all along the west coast they break into huts, devastate colonies of eider ducks and barnacle geese, chase and kill reindeer and make camping risky, even with trip wires and weapons.
An inconvenient truth is that we now know Arctic seas are more productive when the ice melts more. Sunlight fuels blooms of plankton, which feed fish, which feed seals, which feed bears. One study found that in 22 years to 2025, the productivity of phytoplankton shot up by 80 per cent in the Eurasian Arctic, 34 per cent in the Barents Sea, thanks to less ice and therefore more sunlight.
"Lots of evidence now suggests that the Arctic Ocean was nearly or completely ice-free in late summer and early autumn in the early millennia of the current interglacial period, around 9,000-6,000 years ago.""Lots of evidence now suggests that the Arctic Ocean was nearly or completely ice-free in late summer and early autumn in the early millennia of the current interglacial period, around 9,000-6,000 years ago."
Didn't know that!
Despite being hounded out of the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 2019 for her views on polar bears, Crockford has continued to argue that more seasonal melting of sea ice means more and fatter bears. Turns out she was right about that too.
Climate change delusions will go down in history as the worst combination of "science" gone astray and religious fervor running rampant through the wider public. Good riddance
archive: https://archive.md/uyANr
But how are the manbearpigs doing? Does anyone care about them? This is a catastrophe. I'm super cereal, guys. The manbearpigs are probably all gonna die now and no one will ever get to see them.
Not cool to make fun of the man who invented the internet. Just sayin'.
Epstein invented the internet too?
Cereal? Get your vegetarian crap away from us
My god....
That would be the second South Park thing I've ever seen (the first and only being Margaritaville)
The north pole route is navigable by ship now and it wasn't a few years ago
Whether polar bears are procreating on mainland in Alaska or Greenland frankly does not matter. It's a strawman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
No it wasn't, and no it isn't.
And you mean the northwest passage, not the north pole (which is always ice covered).
Not even for the few weeks of ice free times in-between the islands is it predictably navigable
Are you trying to tell me that polar bears get fatter when they have more access to the food they eat?
From what I understand, polar bear populations rebounded in the 70’s after the arctic nations banned hunting them.
who said I was paying taxes?
who said the bear is talking to you?
LOL so easy to fool stackers nowadays...
If polar bears are indeed thriving in certain regions despite reductions in sea ice it challenges one of the most frequently repeated narratives used in climate change advocacy. The situation illustrates the complexity of ecosystems and the danger of oversimplifying cause and effect. The relationship between ice cover and bear health is not linear. Less ice in some cases results in more sunlight reaching the ocean which increases plankton growth which boosts fish populations which in turn benefits seals and ultimately bears.
Of course this does not mean that every polar bear population is safe or that climate change has no effect. Some regions like Hudson Bay and the Beaufort Sea are seeing declines and these should not be brushed aside. But what it does suggest is that the environmental picture is more nuanced than the prevailing story of uniform decline. Predictions made decades ago have not always matched reality and science should be able to adjust its models when new evidence emerges.