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Polar Bear populations are not declining. Also, the plural of anecdote is not data. https://polarbearscience.com/2017/02/15/baffin-bay-and-kane-basin-polar-bea
by sparkzilla 9y ago
Polar Bear populations are not declining. Also, the plural of anecdote is not data. https://polarbearscience.com/2017/02/15/baffin-bay-and-kane-basin-polar-bears-not-declining-concludes-new-report/ https://polarbearscience.com/2017/02/15/baffin-bay-and-kane-...
- perbu 9y agoObserved polar bear populations are not declining. However, since there is far less ice the polar bear are much easier to find these days, making the counts go up, rather than down. This has been the case in Svalbard, at least.
- superb_herb 9y agoAnd there I was thinking Svalbard was only a made up island for the Bear Kingdom in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy...
- wepple 9y agoThat link does not pass the sniff test at all. Massively slanted an opinionated pieces that look like any5ing but proper science.