Polar bears: They are going extinct!?

We are told that Polar Bears are on hugely threatened by climate change. But does the data support this proposition?

Dr Peter Ridd has been researching the Great Barrier Reef since 1984, has invented a range of advanced scientific instrumentation, and written over 100 scientific publications.
Since being fired by James Cook University for raising concerns about science quality assurance issues, Peter Ridd receives no payment for any of the work he does.

[davidbarlow]

Maybe the climate zealots should go camping in areas where they tell us polar bears are extinct?

[fightforjustice]

And, Professor Ridd, so have you been treated shamefully by your peers and the climate catastrophe zealots. Keep telling the truth and we will all benefit.

[tonysheerness]

The world is not fragile but a very strong self adjusting mechanism.

[oldtimers]

The issue is their numbers are growing. The ice on the North Pole is at is thickest for twenty years. Polar Bears don't live on the ice fields they work the edges as that's where their food sources live. Follow the money and you will find the worse the climate claims the higher the grants.

[johnmansell]

The kicker here is that the Arctic Ice is not dwindling but increasing.

[SolisMortis]

"Noble cause corruption" is getting into my vocabulary

[klimatbluffen]

The polar bears managed to survive when Scandinavian settlers could live off agriculture in Greenland, which is completely impossible today.

[nigelburn-murdoch]

Bravo Dr. Crockford. This is a repeat of the sad case of the late popular TV botanist Dr. David Bellamy who having declared climate alarmism “poppycock” on air was never broadcast again.

[neiljohnson]

Polar bears lived through periods when there was NO arctic ice pack. They simply move to the land.

[Chris_at_Home]

I stayed in a hotel in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska when at work for years. Every summer biologists would come up and count polar bears from helicopters. I got to talk to these people and they always told me the polar bear population was growing.

[joedennehy]

There are more polar bears than ever. 11 of 13 populations are increasing or stable. 10 years ago they paid Inuit people to count them. When they Inuit said the populations are increasing, they argued with them, and eventually fired them

[sav]

A bear standing on a small iceberg is not in any trouble at all because it is using the ice like a lookout. It will raise its nose and sniff for seals. That is really hard for the bear to do while it is swimming. Bears are great swimmers so don't think they are stranded on the iceberg.

[Jammyhorse]

The polar bear's Latin name, Ursus maritimus, means "sea bear." It's an apt name for this majestic species, which spends much of its life in, around, or on the ocean–predominantly on the sea ice.

[bonza]

taking pictures of polar bears dying of old age is like the renewable power industry publishing images of coal or gas fired power stations with plumes of steam being emitted from their cooling towers with the inference it's smoke pouring out of some sort of curvy chimney

[Koryos]

since 1985 polar bear numbers have quadrupled

[ricshumack]

Thanks, great data. I believe the critical change was around 1972, when all Arctic countries signed a broad ban on polar bear hunting. Susan Crockford has some good research on populations, based as stated on data not propaganda

[johnhynes]

David Attenborough has already been called out as lying on this subject they are thriving

[toddbellows]

Not since Galileo has there been such persecution of truthful scientists.

[patr]

The times are hard for real science. Fearmongering and gaslighting seem to be the norm nowadays. This is pretty sad.

[barrybarlowe]

Science is too often driven by the official narrative - the narrative being the politically useful position - and personal greed.