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A bonus is that the evolutionary biologist referenced in the story calls earlier studies leading to the conclusion that polar bears were starving due to global warming into question. For example:
Chances are I'd have never heard about that interpretation of the situation if it weren't for Rush Limbaugh finding it and mentioning it on his show. And that kind of thing happens all the time when one listens to him.“Polar bear biologists were finding some bears quite thin and found a population decline,” she said, which they attributed to melting summer ice caused by global warming.
“But the biologists were not there to see the thick [spring] ice. All they saw was thin bears,” she pointed out. “They blamed the poor condition of the bears on summer ice, instead of acknowledging that it was likely the condition of the ice in the spring that was the cause of the problem.”
“Female [polar bears] with cubs having trouble feeding are one aspect of the repercussions of thick ice,” Crockford added. “The other repercussion is that other bears, instead of hanging around and starving, probably left the area. They could have gone to the Chukchi Sea, which is located between the U.S. and Russia near the Bering Strait.”
