{"id":325066,"date":"2024-04-30T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325066"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:22:36","slug":"polar-bears-are-going-extinct-actually-theyre-not-a-new-video-worth-watching-and-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325066","title":{"rendered":"Polar bears are going extinct? Actually, they\u2019re not! A new video worth watching and sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"325073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=325073\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-540\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?fit=723%2C723&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=723%2C723&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-540.png?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/polarbearscience.com\/2024\/04\/28\/polar-bears-are-going-extinct-actually-theyre-not-a-new-video-worth-watching-and-sharing\/\">polarbearscience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great Barrier Reef specialist Peter Ridd has just published an excellent video about my work and the way I\u2019ve been treated by the scientific community just for pointing out that polar bear populations have failed to respond as predicted to the recent decline in Arctic sea ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Ridd has been treated&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2019\/09\/breaking-james-cook-uni-ordered-to-pay-1-2m-to-peter-ridd-judge-vasta-is-scathing\/\">equally abominably<\/a>, as he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ipa.org.au\/research\/climate-change-and-energy\/dr-peter-ridd-culture-wars-on-the-great-barrier-reef-ipa-academy\">explains here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s the video:\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G37V9h7wGs4\">Polar bears: They are going extinct!?<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a027 April 2024 [length 6:57]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G37V9h7wGs4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report Peter refers to in the video is this one, which was published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/polarbearscience.com\/2024\/02\/27\/state-of-the-polar-bear-2023-w-hudson-bay-polar-bear-numbers-have-not-declined-since-2004\/\">February 2024<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"582\" data-attachment-id=\"325069\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=325069\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-539.png?fit=872%2C702&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"872,702\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-539\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-539.png?fit=723%2C582&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-539.png?resize=723%2C582&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-539.png?w=872&amp;ssl=1 872w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-539.png?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-539.png?resize=768%2C618&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Crockford, S.J. 2024.<\/strong>\u00a0State of the Polar Bear 2023.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegwpf.org\/category\/gwpf-publications\/briefing-papers\/\">Briefing Paper 67<\/a>. Global Warming Policy Foundation, London. Download pdf\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/polarbearscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Crockford-Polar-Bears-2023-Briefing-67-final.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Crockford-Polar-Bears-2023-Briefing-67-final.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Crockford-Polar-Bears-2023-Briefing-67-final.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1940cd59-495e-445e-a001-49b7038d8718\" href=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Crockford-Polar-Bears-2023-Briefing-67-final.pdf\">Crockford-Polar-Bears-2023-Briefing-67-final<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Crockford-Polar-Bears-2023-Briefing-67-final.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1940cd59-495e-445e-a001-49b7038d8718\">Herunterladen<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, the polar bear catastrophe we were promised never happened. In case you missed it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Polar-Bear-Catastrophe-Never-Happened\/dp\/0993119085\">I wrote a book about that<\/a>. Polar bears\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/polarbearscience.com\/2023\/02\/23\/published-field-study-observations-not-population-size-prove-polar-bears-are-thriving\/\">across the Arctic are thriving<\/a>: not just because their numbers have increased overall but because the field data collected from bears in regions that have had the most dramatic declines in summer sea ice, including the Barents Sea and the Chukchi Sea, show the bears are healthy and reproducing well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"325075\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=325075\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-541.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Sea Ice, Polar Bears and Great Barrier Reef Return to the Headlines in Misinformation Blitzkrieg","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/03\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Details, details. It seems the ice, the polar bears and the corals are far too valuable poster scares to be let go that easily. The mainstream media has been captured by a false catastrophist climate narrative that is programmed to report every click-bait doomsday science paper, every bad weather event\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Arctic Ice\"","block_context":{"text":"Arctic Ice","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=arctic-ice"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG.xIbeO_.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG.xIbeO_.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG.xIbeO_.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG.xIbeO_.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":213091,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=213091","url_meta":{"origin":325066,"position":1},"title":"Research misconduct in fish ecology and what it means for those who dare to challenge experts","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cBuilding a career on judging what other people did is not right. If such a controversy gets outside of the community, it\u2019s harmful because the whole community loses credibility.\u201d","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0science-marine-ecologist-committed-fraud.jpg?fit=958%2C682&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0science-marine-ecologist-committed-fraud.jpg?fit=958%2C682&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0science-marine-ecologist-committed-fraud.jpg?fit=958%2C682&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0science-marine-ecologist-committed-fraud.jpg?fit=958%2C682&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":248982,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=248982","url_meta":{"origin":325066,"position":2},"title":"15 years after ESA listing as \u2018threatened\u2019 due to sea ice loss polar bears are abundant &#038; thriving","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"22\/03\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Experts who used the American Endangered Species Act (ESA) to list polar bears as \u2018threatened\u2019 in May 2008 were mistaken: sea ice authorities got their predictions wrong about future ice extent and polar bear specialists erroneously declared that two-thirds of polar bears would disappear if summer sea ice declines continued\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-888.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-888.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-888.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-888.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-888.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":219951,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=219951","url_meta":{"origin":325066,"position":3},"title":"Polar bear no closer to extinction than it was 18 years ago as Arctic Sea ice resists \u201atipping point\u2018","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"All predictions of disaster aside, in fact the polar bear is\u00a0no closer to extinction\u00a0than it was in 2005 as Arctic Sea ice\u00a0again steadfastly resists\u00a0slipping past a\u00a0catastrophic \u2018tipping point\u2019\u00a0\u2014 or the\u00a0\u2018death spiral\u2019, as some chicken-littles\u00a0continue to call it.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1030.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1030.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1030.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1030.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1030.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":423920,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423920","url_meta":{"origin":325066,"position":4},"title":"Barents Sea polar bears thriving despite massive loss of sea ice, study\u00a0confirms","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"30\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A recently published study lead by Norwegian polar bear specialist Jon Aars found that both male and female polar bears were fatter and healthier after 1995 despite the greatest loss of sea ice of any Arctic region. However, no evidence was provided that a greater consumption of walrus and reindeer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Arctic region\"","block_context":{"text":"Arctic region","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=arctic-region"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-29.-Mai-2025-18_18_08.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-29.-Mai-2025-18_18_08.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-29.-Mai-2025-18_18_08.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-29.-Mai-2025-18_18_08.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":208451,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208451","url_meta":{"origin":325066,"position":5},"title":"Arctic sea ice is constantly changing which means polar bears must be flexible in their requirements","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In honour of upcoming\u00a0\u201aArctic Sea Ice Day\u2018\u00a0(15 July), I revisit my 2015 essay on sea ice stability and polar bears, called\u00a0The Arctic Fallacy. It challenges the flawed and out-dated ecological concept that under natural conditions, sea ice provides a stable and predictable habitat for polar bears, walrus and seals. 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