We are in no way predicting that a
new down leg to the secular
bear is about to get underway because that would require evidence of a
new emerging
cyclical bear and that is not yet on the table.
For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar
bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a
new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar
bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more
bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable,
cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).