How many polar bears live in the Arctic? | Alaska Dispatch

In Canada, Inuit hunter Gabriel Nirlungayuk thinks the science and the doomsday interpretations environmentalists have derived from it don't accurately portray reality. He works as director of wildlife and environment for Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., an Inuit organization that evolved after a land claims settlement and advocates for the rights of hunters to harvest bears and other animals for survival.
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Traditional hunters in Nunavut had said they were seeing more bears in recent years than the scientific models predicted. Then, in 2011, the government of Nunavut conducted its own survey, discovering more than 1,000 bears present along the areas shores of the full Western Hudson Bay boundary.

"It wasn't a surprise to Nunavut," Nirlungayuk said. "Inuit are quite clear that this population is not in decline. It is not in dire straits as the scientific community is suggesting."   [Via SC]

1949: Climate Change Famine Threatens Sudanese Tribesmen | Real Science

All Tee Times Called Off Today | Real Science

At -44 degrees, the management has suspended play at the Greenland Meltdown Country Club. NASA tells us that 70% of the ice sheet melted in just three days this summer.

Ad Hoc Science Can Explain Anything | Real Science

The new normal in climate science is ad hoc science. Contrary to the climate models, Antarctic ice reaches a record high – so the team simply reaches into their bag of sciency sounding explanations related to any of the millions of degrees of freedom in the climate system.

If you have no ethics or competency, you can blame all phenomenon on humans – just as their witch-burning predecessors did.