Tag Archives: polar bears

Conservation officers find more polar bear dens near Manitoba-Ontario boundary

Manitoba conservation officials have stumbled across a pleasant surprise — a large number of polar bear dens along the Hudson Bay coast near the Ontario boundary. Continue reading

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Tom Nelson: Polar bears refuse to cooperate with warmists: BBC films them “feasting at a time when they might be expected to starve”

Polar bear vs walrus – BBC wildlife – YouTube Continue reading

Rare wildfires threaten Canadian polar bear habitat

I’m surprised the headline doesn’t read “Rare wildfires threaten well-done polar bears”. I think they missed an opportunity for hysteria there. Continue reading

James Taylor: Good News For Polar Bears Is Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists

Professor Susan Crockford, a zoologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Victoria, Canada, reports that polar bears have successfully adapted to severe climate change many times in the past and will likely adapt to future climate change, as well. Continue reading

Polar Bears to get their own bumper sticker – We’re OK

Polar Bears to get their own bumper sticker
Nunavut July 12, 2012

Polar bears are okay. Their populations are healthy, stable and can sustain responsible harvesting.

That’s the message Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. wants to take to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species meeting in Thailand next March via their new bumper sticker, officially released and handed out during Nunavut Day celebrations by NTI President Cathy Towtongie. Continue reading

Doug L. Hoffman: Rethinking Polar Bear Evolution

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Early Edition on-line), is shaking up science’s view of polar bear evolution. Continue reading

Andy Coghlan: Hardy polar bears have survived past global warming

Actually better than I would have expected from the Nude Socialist. Certainly not good but better than expected. Continue reading

Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears

Here is another big one from PNAS. Continue reading

Polar bears originated 5 million years ago per new DNA research (Video)

New research published in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on July 23, 2012, reported a new time frame for the first emergence of polar bears as a species as being between four and five million years ago. Continue reading

Tim Ball: Polar Bears And Inuit Victims of Environmental Hysteria and Inadequate Science, Not Global Warming.

Usually, whatever aboriginal or indigenous people say about the environment is sacrosanct to environmentalists and government. However, when they disagree their knowledge is belittled and ignored. It is happening to the Inuit about polar bears. Continue reading

Canada’s Inuit roar in protest over move to protect polar bears

They say animal rights activists put the species at more risk than hunters who regard it as central to their livelihood Continue reading

Of polar bears, polemics and … “climate warming”

Elevated from comments, if you are interested in the fate of polar bears this book review is definitely for you Continue reading

Pierre Gosselin: Propagandus Horribilus – Polar Bears Are In No Real Danger

Al Gore and others have shamelessly exploited public ignorance about the polar bear in order to spread fear. Ed Caryl tells us why the polar bear will do just fine.
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Sun runs obligatory northern summer “stranded poley” pictorial

Pity the poor poley family
Marooned … baffled bears are stuck on iceContinue reading

Polar bears can swim vast distances, study finds

Did the bears suddenly, magically evolve this ability? That’s highly unlikely but doesn’t prevent the usual ‘endangered by Arctic ice loss’ nonsense Continue reading

IBD: Next They’ll Say We Have Too Many Polar Bears

Among the problems caused by climate change, we’ve been told, is its grave threat to polar bears. Earthjustice, for one, says the animals “are facing unprecedented threats” from global warming. Well, not exactly. Continue reading