Sentences with phrase «global polar bear numbers»

• Abundant prey and adequate sea ice in spring and early summer since 2007 appear to explain why global polar bear numbers have not declined, as might have been expected as a result of low summer sea ice levels.

• Global polar bear numbers have been stable or risen slightly since 2005, despite the fact that summer sea ice since 2007 hit levels not expected until mid-century: the predicted 67 % decline in polar bear numbers did not occur.

Rather, global polar bear numbers have been stable or slightly improved.

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Impacts of global warming in Churchill include an increase in the number of ice - free days and reduced nutrition in polar bears due to a shorter feeding season (Stirling et al., 1999).

No, 350 is the number of polar bears who drowned when global warming caused the ice to melt beneath them during the time it took to ring them bells 350 times.»

The recent listing of polar bears as «endangered» was based on junk science and GIGO computer models that claim manmade global warming will send the bears» record population numbers into oblivion.

The image of melting glaciers in the Himalayas has been called one of the two principal «icons» of global warming alarmism, along with polar bears, who have been declared a «threatened» species despite the fact that their numbers are growing.

The first of the series was about polar bears, which they referred to as the canaries in the global - warming coalmine, ignoring the fact that polar bear numbers are actually the highest since records began.

Tagged Amstrup, Derocher, estimates, global warming, polar bear, population decline, population numbers, predictions

There is important research that attempts to tie global warming to carbon dioxide emissions and a long list of supporting research and observations from polar ice melting and polar bears to strength and number of exceptional storms.

Wilder presents these numbers as a basis for saying how concerned he is that a longer open - water season in the Arctic could increase the number of attacks by polar bears — and he's right, that's a valid concern now that the global population of bears is so high.