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Polar Bears: Outstanding Survivors of Climate Change Paperback – 31 Dec. 2016

by Susan J Crockford (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 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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    56 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    31 Dec. 2016
  4. Dimensions
    20.32 x 0.36 x 25.4 cm
  5. ISBN-10
    1541139712
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1541139718
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About the Author

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 (31 Dec. 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 56 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541139712
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541139718
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 0.36 x 25.4 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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2101bob
5.0 out of 5 stars Pity the science rather than the bears?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Full of facts
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2018
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Excellent book. Full of facts. Easy to read. History well explained and the whole of the Actic covered region by region. No hype. Based on good science.
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Thomas D.
5.0 out of 5 stars It's the seal population that effects polar bears.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2020
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After hearing about the plight of polar bears every time the BBC and it's climate activists (which unfortunately now includes Sir David Attenborough) mention global warming and the trace gas co2, I thought I would check it out with this polar bear expert. Well what an eye opener, it appears that polar bears are safe and well but these propagandists still mislead people by any means necessary to push their anthropogenic global warming message, despite all the information that co2 has little to do with climate change or the fate of these bears.
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PAmtnman
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating book about actual polar bear facts
Reviewed in the United States on 16 July 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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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 28 February 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 12 October 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 12 December 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 31 May 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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