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Polar Bears: Outstanding Survivors of Climate Change Paperback – December 31, 2016

by Susan J Crockford (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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This full-color volume explains why polar bears are thriving despite the recent decline of Arctic sea ice.It contains the critical information readers need to understand polar bear ecology and conservation issues without drowning in detail: the most up-to-date information available in an easy to digest format that is fully referenced. Here is the rational science reference book about polar bears readers around the world have been requesting.
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Susan Crockford is a professional zoologist who has studied polar bear ecology and evolution for more than 20 years. She has a Ph.D. and writes a blog about polar bears past and present called PolarBearScience. For years, readers have been asking for a science book about polar bears with the same rational approach and content as her science blog. Since 2009, Susan has given lectures to the public about polar bears and their outstanding ability to survive climate change: this short volume is the written version with the background references.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 31, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 56 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541139712
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541139718
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.14 x 10 inches
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PAmtnman
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating book about actual polar bear facts
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020
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This is not a book about people in polar bear suits carrying signs. It is a simple and easy to read book about actual polar bear facts. I do not dislike polar bears. I think polar bears are neat animals. I do support polar bear hunting, IF their populations can sustain it. This book helped me understand what kinds of pressures humans have and can put on polar bear populations, and how these cool animals are amazingly adaptable to all kinds of changes around them. Because they emerged as a species out of recent ice ages that resulted from the earth's natural climate changes.
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Morten Jãdal
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant bok on polar bears
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017
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We have ben told for decades that polar bears are threatened. They are not, and this bok explains why. It does as well explain why so many of the «established polar bear experts» are wrong: they obviously do not understand the basic biology of this animal. Or; their science is politicised - as we have seen in so much of the climate science.
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Gary Mullennix
5.0 out of 5 stars Full of fear for Polar Bears and their babies? Read this and be comforted by the likely future of the Bears.
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2017
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Well written and referenced, concise without noise. I knew much more after reading it. Crockford has numerous detractors who deride her findings and her position as immature and wrong. I've not talked to any though who've read her book. They seem to merely repeat a negative review without having read the work.
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Lance A. Wallace
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent short readable summary of new understanding of polar bear health
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2019
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The author has contributed groundbreaking research on polar bear habits, showing that their survival depends strongly on spring ice conditions, when they get 60% or so of their annual food requirements. Too much ice results in seals not being able to breed near shore because they can't break through the ice to provide breathing holes. So they have their pups at sea, where it is harder for the bears to hunt them. Previous flawed research pegged their survival to summer ice conditions, but they eat very little in summer anyway, so the melting occurring during summer is unimportant to their survival. So it is not too little ice in summer that is the problem, but too much ice in spring. Since the Arctic is warming, there is less chance of too much ice in spring and therefore the outlook is good for polar bear survival. I give this 4 stars instead of 5 because there is not enough detailed support of the author's claims. That support exists and is provided in a much longer more detailed (but still readable) book "The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened."
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Jayanne Sindt
5.0 out of 5 stars Polar bear TRUTH
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2018
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This thorough and informative book crushes the myth that polar bears will be devastated by climate change. They are amazingly adaptable and we should be looking to them as an example for survival, not as victims.
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Stefan
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2017
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Extremely poor writing about polar bear and climate change !
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BarryD
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
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A refreshing view of the facts correcting the radical environmentalist fearmongering too common today.
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Papa
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent News that the Polar Bear Population is Highest in 50 Years
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017
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Great Read - short and to the point and appropriate for most ages.
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2101bob
5.0 out of 5 stars Pity the science rather than the bears?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2020
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Susan Crockford was effectively sacked from her University post in 2019, for declining to compromise her principles and bend her research results to match the propaganda of the climate activist lobby. This book explains not only how polar bears live (and have lived for milenia) around the Arctic, but also why the climate alarmists found her unable to be tolerated any longer.
As she, and many others, have since explained, she is certainly not the only scientist to have fallen foul of the "consensus" fiction, and will certainly not be the last, alas. More recently she was instrumental in demonstrating - via her knowledge of the behaviour of other Arctic mammals - that the "Our Planet" documentary producers, along with the narrator, David Attenborough, were distorting facts yet again. The world desperately needs real scientists to be allowed to do real science, unconstrained by the threat of losing their jobs.
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Jean-François DUMAS
4.0 out of 5 stars Un exposé bien étayé sur un sujet controversé : Les ours polaires face au changement climatique.
Reviewed in France on February 28, 2020
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Selon l'auteure le changement climatique actuel ne met pas en danger l'espèce ours polaire et elle a de bonnes raisons qu'elle expose dans cet ouvrage pour justifier cela. Elle ne conteste ni le réchauffement climatique actuel ni le fait que la banquise fonde en été mais c'est au printemps que les ours se nourrissent de bébés phoques sur la banquise qui se reconstitue pendant l'hiver et a une étendue suffisante au printemps. Si l'on regarde le passé, les ours ont survécu à de grandes variations climatiques. Il n'y aurait donc que peu de souci à se faire pour cette espèce.

L'ours polaire étant devenu pour le grand public la victime surmédiatisée du réchauffement climatique, les thèses de l'auteure s'accordant avec celles des "peuples premiers" mais pas avec les thèses majoritaires chez les autres scientifiques, celle-ci a été mise à l'index.

Je suis bien incapable de trancher dans cette controverse mais cette mise à l'index me semble mal venue et une mauvaise façon de la trancher d'autant que les arguments de S.J. Crockford n'ont rien de farfelu et que quoi qu'en dise Le Monde ou certains censeurs, elle est une spécialiste de la question et une paléozoologiste réputée. Ce n'est pas de cette façon que les sciences pourront progresser.

Je recommande donc vivement la lecture de cet ouvrage.
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Les Calgary
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent analysis
Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2017
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This is a very worthwhile read. I think the author's analysis was well supported by the data.
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Christiaan
1.0 out of 5 stars Climate Change Sceptics - Outstanding Deniers in the Modern Age
Reviewed in Germany on December 12, 2017
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This book is not about polar bears, it's about climate change denial. Polar bears are just the accidental topic since they are the single one species most directly and vividly and heartbrakingly affected by it. Mrs Crockford has, to the best of my knowledge, not a single peer-reviewed article on polar bears to her credit. Or on climate change and its effects. Her reputation among 'bearologists' (I know, ursologist, but I prefer bearologist, sounds much nicer) is abysmal, and a polar bear guide broke into laughter when I showed him this very book, stating 'Oh, that's the denial lady with the blog!'

I have really read this without bias since it was the first book I had read on polar bears before going on a polar bear trip to Canada. (It was not the last book.) So I could not assess the facts presented at the time, only the way it was written, and it showed all the warning signs of bad science writing. It shows an impressive list of references in the back, but does not directly reference them in the text, 'for better readability'. Seriously? That's what footnotes are for, so that readers can fact check what the author is saying without interrupting the flow of language for those who don't. No first year student would get away with this for the first paper she hands in, you show where you take the data from, discuss differring opinions, and explain your own opinion - that's science writing 101, for scientific publications as well as for a broader audience. Mrs Crockford presents facts out of context, and framed in a different context.

Her final argument that polar bears are fine with climate change is pathetic at best. Warmer climate means less sea ice, seasonal ice as well as permanent, which means less habitat. Also, bears are deeply affected by the late arrival of seasonal ice. If you read this book as a layman, as I did, you have no way to check what is true in it and what isn't and what is a true fact framed in a misleading context. If you want to see how climate warming affects polar bears, go to Hudson Bay in Manitoba and watch the bears waiting longer and longer for the sea ice, ask the locals about it, and ask them about the average number of cubs they see with their mothers. You will hear that bears have to wait longer and longer, which means going longer without food, and that the number of cubs is now usually one, not two, showing that mothers would not be in good enough shape to sustain more (delayed implantation depending on the mothers state).

As for the wonderful numbers that polar bear population is up? They were nearly extinct due to merciless overhunting, so claiming they are thriving now is like arguing that war is good for people because populations rebound after the war. 25000 is NOT a lot for a species of such a range, specialisation, and subpopulations.

Finally, I have read in old newspaper articles that Mrs. Crockford was receiving a monthly check from a climate denying un-think-tank. I can not assess if it's true or false, but it's clearly a no no for any scientist that wants to be taken half seriously.

And, finally finally, her rant on polar bear scientists working in the field with the bears is a bit strange. Doesn't it help to understand animals if you spend time with them and watch them?
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Toni
5.0 out of 5 stars Polar Bears: Outstanding Survivors of Climate Change
Reviewed in Australia on May 31, 2019
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This book gives a good view of the problem the Polar Bears had and now they asre well and truly on the comeback
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