Five meters of ice- about 16 feet thick – is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea region along Alaska’s Arctic coast, according to Dr. Susan J. Crockford, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia who has studied polar bears for most of her 35-year career.
That’s because the thick ice ridges could prevent ringed seals, the bears’ major prey, from creating breathing holes they need to survive in the frigid waters…
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There were comparably high levels of spring ice in the Beaufort Sea in 2004 and 2006, when bear counts were “one of the pieces of evidence used to have the bears listed as ‘threatened’ in the U.S.,” Crockford pointed out.
“Polar bear biologists were finding some bears quite thin and found a population decline,” she said, which they attributed to melting summer ice caused by global warming.
“But the biologists were not there to see the thick [spring] ice. All they saw was thin bears,” she pointed out. “They blamed the poor condition of the bears on summer ice, instead of acknowledging that it was likely the condition of the ice in the spring that was the cause of the problem.”
A curious bear-centred way of putting the matter. Presumably the thick ice either drives the seals away or asphyxiates them.
No seal, no bear.
This can’t be true. We all have been told by the fruit fly nutjob and his pals that the Arctic is ice free.
Aha! Global warming protects the seals!
Well, it’s an easy fix, we just send all the pols from DC up there and the abundance of hot air will melt the ice and turn a frigid waste into a tropical paradise.
Al Gore. Paging Al Gore. Cold clean up in the frozen (bear)food section.
I’m sure residents of Churchill are ready to “miss” the polar bears , but personally I will not miss the warmist BS when the reality of a deep cooling climate cycle makes AGW catastrophe an unsupportable theory in a few years – and the global doom merchants move on to exploit some other phantom global “crisis”
– hopefully by then there will be a full 2 generations aware of how they have been deceived and exploited by greed heads pimping paranoid fantasies for power and profit – nawww wishful thinking , live to tweet and selfie, worship big bro and go with the flow – meh, the baaaa generation will always be food for predators.
Five meters of ice- about 16 feet thick – is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea region along Alaska’s Arctic coast, according to Dr. Susan J. Crockford, an evolutionary biologist…
Gee, why doesn’t she blame evolution?
Classic eh..??
Everything is attributable to Global Warming these days. Car don’t start.? global worming. Your fast food came cold.? Global worming. it simply does not matter what, where or when…all things that happen on Planet Earth is Global Warming induced.
Seems to me its not warming we should worry about, rather the cooling that is so bloody obvious.
But the mass hysteria/madness of the ECO-ZOMBIES continues…as trillions are blown on bogus alternative energy schemes and the like to try and mitigate their beloved culprit in all things warming….. CO2.
sad really.
a nice look at that CO2 thing, I think it bolsters your point. http://americaswatchtower.com/
Focussing on CO2 was an act of satanic brilliance. CO2 is a mild greenhouse gas, and is essential to plant life. It is emitted by
nearly all animals, heating plants, and many industrial processes. Control over CO2 is control over nearly everything.
They’ve added excess snow and cold to the list of things caused by global warming so why not excess ice then later re-add increased risk of polar bear depletion to the list. Hey everything can be blamed on AGW. Let them think awhile and they could probably blame solar cycles on global warming which could bring them back to that age old theory that the earth is the center of the solar system.
Probably because she understands how it works.
Let’s not forget what CO2 is really all about. The ability to tax a trace gas essential for life. Politicians love it and the opportunity to fleece the public in this manner may never come around again. Just ask Christy Clark in BC.
Weren’t we told last year that the bears were dying from global warming because the ice was too thin?
The green Jihad failed again.
Goldilocks and the Three Polar Bears.
There’s not enough ice!
There’s too much ice!
I hope they can find an amount of ice that is juuuust right.
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