{"id":291147,"date":"2023-12-13T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291147"},"modified":"2023-12-13T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:22:25","slug":"churchill-end-of-season-problem-polar-bear-reports-finally-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=291147","title":{"rendered":"Churchill end-of-season problem polar bear reports finally published"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From polarbearscience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today<\/a>\u00a0the Town of Churchill finally published the final problem bear reports of the season, which presents an opportunity to do a quick comparison to recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This season lasted 24 weeks<\/a>, the longest I can remember but apparently only the 5th longest on record<\/a>. There were a total of 265 incidents by the end of November, more than 100 less than the most recent late-freeze-up year of 2016<\/strong>, which didn\u2019t end until the first week of December (after bears had spent 22 weeks onshore). However, two recent years when freeze-up didn\u2019t come until the end of November (2017 and 2020) had far fewer incidents (more than 100 less each compared to this year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last report of the 2023 season<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of week 24 (the last week of November, 20-26) all bears in holding were released to return to the\u00a0rapidly developing sea ice<\/a>\u00a0after a total of 265 incidents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Compare to 2017, last week of November (end of season):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2020, last week of November (end of season):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2016, end of season, first week in December (week 22 that year):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today\u00a0the Town of Churchill finally published the final problem bear reports of the season, which presents an opportunity to do a quick comparison to recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":291156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Today\u00a0the Town of Churchill finally published the final problem bear reports of the season, which presents an opportunity to do a quick comparison to recent years.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818251,691825290,691825289],"class_list":{"0":"post-291147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-polar-bears","9":"tag-problem-bear-reports","10":"tag-town-of-churchill","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0DSC_0390.jpg?fit=3008%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1dJV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":274040,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274040","url_meta":{"origin":291147,"position":0},"title":"Conservation officers misleading the public about polar bear problems in Churchill","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"17\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Canadian government-funded media outlet CBC ran a\u00a0story this morning\u00a0about problem polar bears in the town of Churchill, Manitoba, the self-described \u201cPolar Bear Capital of the World\u201d that contains some very misleading statements from Manitoba Conservation officers.","rel":"","context":"In \"Churchill\"","block_context":{"text":"Churchill","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=churchill"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00a26993240506963c58299fa719f917a8.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00a26993240506963c58299fa719f917a8.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00a26993240506963c58299fa719f917a8.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00a26993240506963c58299fa719f917a8.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00a26993240506963c58299fa719f917a8.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":213219,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=213219","url_meta":{"origin":291147,"position":1},"title":"Churchill problem polar bear reports for early 2022 have no mention of fat bears or excess sea ice","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The first few reports on\u00a0problem polar bear activity in Churchill\u00a0are in, posted early this week (two together), starting the last week of July (25-31). 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