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Polar Bears Thriving Despite Melting Ice:
New Study Shocks Experts

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Posted By: Hazymac, 1/30/2026 5:56:39 PM

Polar bears are remarkable critters. They are a circumpolar species, found all over the Arctic, from Scandinavia to Russia to Alaska to Canada and thence to Greenland. They are the largest bear extant, and the only bear that feeds exclusively on meat. Some biologists have been worried about how polar bears will fare in our time of receding sea ice in some parts of the Arctic, but one new study indicates that the great white bears are more adaptable than some thought. Some polar bears, it seems, are doing well out climate change and reduced ice levels in the Arctic, so a study in Nature Scientific Reports says. Although ‘body condition index’

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 1/30/2026 6:41:56 PM (No. 2062683)
What melting ice? I don't believe it for a minute. And another Al Core LIE bites the dust.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mc squared 1/30/2026 7:08:10 PM (No. 2062700)
Reduced ice levels?. Anyone remember the Greenpeace ship that was documenting the loss of ice and got iced in? Rescue ships got caught too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 1/30/2026 7:13:13 PM (No. 2062703)
Algore must be devastated after hearing this "news".
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JHHolliday 1/30/2026 7:18:39 PM (No. 2062704)
"have been pretty successful because they can eat just about anything, and they will". They certainly will. All in all, probably the most dangerous bears to humans, even Browns and Grizzlies. In the Arctic villages in Polar Bear country, the natives shut their solid doors and don't go out at night unless absolutely necessary. The ones that have to leave their homes carry something like a .375 Weatherby Magnum.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 1/30/2026 7:24:15 PM (No. 2062707)
Yet another thing the climate change/warming crowd has been wrong about. Further, they used sad sack predictions about the poor polar bears that were suffering, picking pictures of bears that looked unhealthy to garner sympathy for their lies. We need to remember that the first thing to do is to fully and carefully examine the data before buying into the sad stories sold by the Left. The data was always weak and manipulated with unjustified "adjustments" that always seemed to support the Leftists' propositions. It was always suspicious that the unadjusted temperature measurements never supported the warming theory but the adjusted numbers did. Finally, the "science" is being looked at it is coming up short. The narrative is falling apart. The threat is not real and therefore extreme solutions are not needed. Where negative things are proven to happen and become real threats, reasonable actions can be taken. The need and scope of any problem is vastly reduced and the requirement for drastic action is withering away. And the lesson should be learned that all the "experts" who perpetrated this delusion should be remembered and they should be held at arm's length in the future as they are unreliable.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Hazymac 1/30/2026 7:39:26 PM (No. 2062718)
Polar bears are quite capable of swimming 100 miles, if they need to. Whales and walruses--not to mention seals--are among their prey. A fully grown human would be a snack, and, believe me, if a polar bear catches a person out in the open, it's ursine mealtime, unless the human has a powerful rifle or compound bow. The ice cover in the Arctic Ocean never disappeared, as Al Gore predicted would happen. It does whatever it does with no human influence whatsoever. In recent years, the ice was doing quite well in the Arctic. A half century ago, polar bear population was thought to be some 5,000 worldwide. Now, as nearly as can be determined, nearly all populations are healthy, and number at least 30,000. Of all the species of bears in America, the polar bear is by far the most likely to attack people. Black bears and brown bears can eat you. Polar bears will eat you. And they're even larger than Kodiak brown bears. Both can weigh 1,700. Trouble is a bruin.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: czechlist 1/30/2026 9:21:37 PM (No. 2062761)
Susan Crockford reported on the misrepresentation of polar bear populations for over a decade, that Polar Bears were not threatened by climate change and their populations were increasing. She lost her unpaid adjunct professor position at the University of Victoria (cancel culture) because of her challenges of other scientist's claims and because she received a $750/month stipend from the Heartland Insitute to support her research for a couple of years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: msts 1/31/2026 6:40:10 AM (No. 2062818)
Years ago I read that the alarm over polar bear population decreases was premature. It appeared that while the case was being made that the population was dropping, there was never any real specific data saying how many polar bears there were. So what was being said was in effect "We dont know how many there were or are but we think they must be dying off" Science!!
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