Is there a similar disconnect between predictions and observations for polar bear survival? (polarbearscience.com)
This is not another «worse than we thought» moment (Amstrup et al. 2007)-- this is sea ice models so wrong as to be useless: failed models used to inform future polar bear survival models that got the bears declared «threatened» with extinction in the US in 2008 (Crockford 2017). (polarbearscience.com)
Fortunately, a new study by David Legates, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research, throws cold water on the claim global warming threatens polar bears survival. (washingtontimes.com)