Polar bear numbers up, but rescue continues

"Their status ranges from a "vulnerable" to "endangered" and could be declared "threatened" if the U.S. decides the polar bear is collateral damage of climate change.

Nobody talks about "overpopulated" when discussing the bears' outlook.

Yet despite the Canadian government 's $150-million commitment last week to fund 44 International Polar Year research projects, a key question is not up for detailed scientific assessment: If the polar bear is the 650-kilogram canary in the climate change coal mine, why are its numbers INCREASING?......

The Inuit have always insisted the bears' demise was greatly exaggerated by scientists doing projections based on fly-over counts, but their input was usually dismissed as the ramblings of self-interested hunters.

As Nunavut government biologist Mitch Taylor observed in a front-page story in the Nunatsiaq News last month, "the Inuit were right. There aren't just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears."

Their widely portrayed lurch toward extinction on a steadily melting ice cap is not supported by bear counts in other Arctic regions either...."

This is, of course, typical. The suits are not interested in the input from people who actually live on the land. Because the suits are not interested in facts. They want money and facts don't generate dollars. Propaganda generates dollars. Gaia worshipers might also be willing to check the a British article, since Britain has had a liberal governent since who flung the chunk.

Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up'

Pictures of a polar bear floating precariously on a tiny iceberg have become the defining image of global warming but may be misleading, according to a new study..........

............."I don't think there is any question polar bears are in danger from global warming," said Andrew Derocher of the World Conservation Union, and a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. "People who deny that have a clear interest in hunting bears."...........

"To say that bear populations are growing in one area now is irrelevant.  (Emphasis added. In other words, his mind is made up, don't confuse him with facts.)

However, Prof Derocher conceded that some polar bear-related evidence of the damaging effect of global warming was misplaced.

Contrary to concern over a celebrated photograph of a bear and its cub floating on a tiny iceberg, the animals often travel in that way, he said.

"Bears will often hang out on glacier ice or large pieces of multi-year ice," he said.

Tina Cunnings, a biologist attached to the Alaskan government, questioned whether they needed sea ice to survive, saying they could adapt to hunt on land and find alternative food sources to seals

Prof Derocher said the theory was "absolutely fanciful".

"Absolutely fanciful," the man says. Black bears do it. Grizzly bears do it. Kodiak bears do it. But polar bears, who are perhaps the smartest and toughest land predators on the planet are not capable of doing it? What does this genius think their ancestors did during the last interglacial?

But it's all moot anyway, since the northern ice cap is now back to where it was in 1979, back in the days of my youth when the Chicken Little-ers were shrieking about "The Ice Age is Coming! The Ice Age is Coming! Give us all your money so we can save you!"

Pravda is ahead of the curve. They see the writing on the wall already, and it looks like they intend to be at the head of the line. You gotta give credit where it is due. The Russians are on the ball. 

Which is exactly what they told us thirty years ago. All things old are new again.