Some polar bear specialists warn that the pace of projected human - driven warming could present greater challenges than prolonged warm spells of the past. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
That year, the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group booted 20 - year member Mitch Taylor out of their organization, explaining that his skeptical views on human - caused global warming were «extremely unhelpful» to their polar bear conservation agenda. (polarbearscience.com)
Polar bear specialists Andrew Derocher and Steven Amstrup recently spent inordinate energy trying to refute the opinion piece I'd written for the Financial Post in celebration of International Polar Bear Day last month, ignoring my fully referenced State of the Polar Bear Report for 2017 that was released the same day (Crockford 2018) and the scientific manuscript I'd posted last year at PeerJ Preprints (Crockford 2017). (polarbearscience.com)