Canadian Polar Bears doing Well?
Crossposted from Canadian Polar Bears doing Well? 
Study shows polar bear increase in Davis Strait
One of the most visible scare tactics of the global warming alarmists is to show pictures of polar bears on ice flows with captions claiming that global warming is melting the ice and hurting the bears. So what do the people who actually study and inventory the number of bears say about this? Well at least as far as Canada is concerned it seems that the bears are doing just fine, too fine in fact, and they may become a problem which will have to be dealt with.
Climate change is not hurting polar bear populations in the Davis Strait area of Nunavut, according to Dr. Mitch Taylor, manager of wildlife research and a polar bear biologist with the GN's Department of Environment.
In fact, polar bear populations along the Davis Strait are healthy and their numbers increasing, an ongoing study is indicating.
Reports in national and international press have projected that two-thirds of the world's polar bear populations will be lost within 50 years due to the loss of sea ice.
Canada has two thirds of the world's polar bears. Nunavut is home to 12 of Canada's 13 polar bear populations, totalling an estimated 14,780.
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They are doing well thanks to environmental activists who helped reduce baby seal clubbing, so they have more food!
Actually, the only major complaint I have about your diary here is that you are using statistics from a single population of a couple of thousand bears to imply that the entire Canadian population of bears is doing well. I'll give you a pass on that though, since the study that is often cited by "alarmists" is also just a single population - Hudson Bay, I believe.
Polar bears are too complex and adaptable, IMO, to be a "canary in a coalmine" regarding global warming. Just like humans, they will receive both benefits and disadvantages from a warming climate. It may be harder for them to catch seals because of the decrease in pack ice, but there will probably be more seals around for the very same reason. There will also likely be more blueberries and other supplemental foods available.
So, how about that, GR, I kinda agree with you! Polar bear populations are a lousy indicator of the effects of climate change. They should stick with the simple stuff like lichen, but even the cutest lichen doesn't tug at the heartstrings so much.
We are the environment. There is no distinction. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves. —David Suzuki
I may word things in a provactive manner ...
but in the end the information I provide is what it is and people can accept it as such. I am simply trying to point out the other side of the story since the AGW alarmists are so vocal on their side of the issue. You don't here about the good sides of things not because there aren't good sides, but because the AGW alarmists don't bother to tell the whole story.
I don't feel obligated to tell both sides of the story since the alarmist view is over-represented already so it would be a waste of my time to do so.
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