The Obama Administration lurched back to their Polar Bear scam again, saying bears can’t survive without sea ice, the ice is disappearing, and that we can stop it by prohibiting Obama from flying 10,000 miles on a huge jet to play golf.
Human-Driven Global Warming Is Biggest Threat to Polar Bears, Report Says – The New York Times
Polar Bears don’t need ice all the time. The Arctic was ice-free 7,000 years ago, and Hudson Bay Polar bears survive without ice for several months every year. There is no indication the Arctic will be ice-free anytime soon and zero evidence that CO2 has any meaningful impact on the climate.
Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago — ScienceDaily
None of the things they said had any validity to them, but that is the norm for the most dishonest President in American history.
Hmm, those pesky greenhouse gases really seem to be a problem, but how to remove water from the troposphere is a true dilemma.
The last reported drop in polar bear numbers was because of too much spring ice, but that doesn’t show up in the press.
Watched a program on a hunter that took a Grizpol hybrid in N. Canada. Confirmed by DNA. White fur. Larger head than polar bear. Claws longer than a polar bear but shorter than a Grizzly. Dark circles around eyes.
Bleached, with seemingly larger head, overgrown toenails and dark circles around the eyes, eh? It could have been an emaciated polar bear exhausted from a long swim around the Arctic. Al Gore described such phenomena in his scientific movie.
Sounds like George Soros.
Also a mix in the build of the animal. First confirmed hybrid found in the wild. Was surprised to learn that when Brown bears and Polar bears meet at a whale carcass the brown bears are dominant.
Rah – you should check out Dr Susan Crockford’s blog – Polar Bear Science she has written several posts about claimed hybrids.
Last summer there was a lot in the press about a polar/grizzly hybrid …….but less reported was the subsequent DNA analysis which proved the animal to be a blonde grizzly.
https://polarbearscience.com/2016/06/21/breaking-dna-results-prove-so-called-polar-bear-hybrid-was-a-blonde-grizzly/
I just posted several excerpts by the comment is in moderation.
She is not happy with all the lying.
I will try this one link
https://polarbearscience.com/2017/01/06/communicating-polar-bear-science-requires-a-rational-approach/
probably dyed blond..
And polar bears look like virtually “red heads” half the time. This one hadn’t quite rolled around in it yet but surely he would get to that…
The Canadian Lab people that did the DNA analysis confirmed the Hybrid. It all came about because hunters with Polar bear tags are required to provide the hide, head, and various other body parts for confirmation that the species taken matched what they were sold a permit for.
The Inuit hunting guide that had skinned the carcass and taken the parts required stated that the meat of the bear he skinned was much darker and had a different smell than that of a Polar bear. Polar bears smell like their staple diet of seal and their meat is lighter colored and oily he said. The meat on the bear he skinned was not like that.
The Canadian authorities are the ones that did all of the checking according to the story. Initially they wrote on their form, species unknown, then sent the samples to their lab for analysis.
The also interviewed a guy that has been responsible for tagging and radio tracking over 80 Brown bears. That guy said that Grizzlies, for what ever reason seemed to be migrating further north than before. He was the one that had the video they showed of Grizzlies and Polar bears interacting at a whale carcasses and stated that the Grizzlies were dominate which was exactly what the video they showed indicated. One Grizzly ran three polar bears off the carcass.
Though if my memory serves male polar bears are larger the male Grizzlies. Grizzlies are far more interactive with each other than polar bears and tend to bicker and fight a lot more than the more solitary polar bears.
They also interviewed the taxidermist that mounted the bear and he also said the build and head and claws were unlike any polar bear he had seen.
All in all a pretty convincing presentation.
Am heading out for a 2nd Seward run.
The Hudson Bay polar bears are however suffering due to the increased time the bay is ice free in recent years…
This is from a researcher who has worked with that population:
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/news-room/scientists-and-explorers-blog/tough-times-hudson-bay-polar-bears
Elsewhere, no femal polar bears will have been able to reach denning sites on Svalbard on the nearby Kongsoya isles this year: there was no sea ice in December when they need to reach there and there still isn’t.
Polar bears may have survived before but that’s no guarantee this time.
From the article above:
“Polar bears thrive in a “sweet spot” of sea ice conditions: not too thick, not too much, not too thin, and not too little.
Going forward in time, we’re unlikely to ever see negative effects from too thick or too much sea ice: Those days are long gone across the Arctic. The biggest challenge we face is ice that is too little or too thin. “
Dr S. J. Crockford is a zoologist with more than 35 years experience, including published work on the Holocene history of Arctic animals. Like Ian Stirling, grand-daddy of all polar bear biologists, she earned her undergraduate degree in zoology at the University of British Columbia. Polar bear evolution is one of her professional interests… link with books and peer-reviewed papers
From Polar Bear Science:
December 16, 2016 W. Hudson Bay had 1030 polar bears at last count and that is the official number
Fake news on polar bear survival predictions is political posturing
Communicating polar bear science requires a rational approach
Griff, Polar Bears International is an environmental advocacy group – the report you link to is bythe activist/”scientist” Andrew Derocher.
Amongst Derocher’s disinformation campaign he recently claimed that the West Hudson Bay polar bear population was 800 (based on a small mark-recapture survey) despite the official total based on a large aerial survey being 1030.
https://polarbearscience.com/2016/12/16/w-hudson-bay-had-1030-polar-bears-at-last-count-and-that-is-the-official-number/
Please don’t say “activist/scientist”. It’s an oxymoron. Somebody is either an activist or a scientist.
Derocher has demonstrated that he is an activist, not a scientist by his use of false numbers to panic people into causing self-harm.
I described Derocher as an activist/”scientist” – the position I chose for the quotation marks is deliberate :)
Griff, like all leftists, prefers his news faked.
He’s a polar bear denier. Also, he studied polar bears by watching Al Gore’s PowerPoint movie and he became a prominent, internationally known denier of Dr. Crockford’s expertise, right Griff?
Right. Not “scientist”, but maybe “science guy”?
With a rough 2016 officially behind us, and a foreboding 2017 ahead, maybe we all need a good dose of 1990’s nostalgia. This Spring, Bill Nye will make his long-awaited return to our screens with his new Netflix show, Bill Nye Saves the World.
The Science Guy and his band of correspondents—model Karlie Kloss, Xploration Outer Space host Emily Calandrelli, comedians Joanna Hausmannm and Nazeem Hussain, and Veritasium host Derek Muller—will explore some of the most complex scientific topics of the day, from climate change, vaccines and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
http://www.ecowatch.com/bill-nye-netflix-save-the-world-2178458816.html
“You can’t have a unfalsifiable hypothesis that says ‘whatever happens is consistent with my hypothesis.’ If it rains, that’s consistent with my hypothesis. If there’s drought, a flood, if it snows, if it’s cold, if there’s heat it’s consistent with my hypothesis. That’s a hypothesis that has no information for forecasting because it says anything can happen.” -John Christy
Above excerpt from:
John Christy: Climatologist – Science, Politics and Morality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvO7bBuTRno
Zero Hedge points out Griffy’s problem. He can not tell the difference between an Elite and an Expert.
The rest of the article is really good.
In so many things we are seeing a reverse correlation between CO2 and the doomsters’ predictions, like with polar bears. Co2 rises steadily since the ’60s, and the population of the bloodthirsty man-eating polar bears goes through the roof.
Same with agricultural production. The leftist loons predicted rising Co2 would spell catastrophic declines in agricultural production. Yet it’s exactly the opposite that is true … as increased Co2 has instead spurred sharp increases in farm output: