[Lots of inconsistencies in this typical AP polar bear sob story] -- latimes.com

Paradoxically, although scientists have documented a 25 percent decline in numbers around Hudson Bay, Inuit there and elsewhere in eastern Canada and in Greenland report seeing more bears.
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Only 14 bears were taken in the last December-to-May hunting season here, out of a local quota of 40, Branigan said. Half the quota is allotted to sport hunters. The unused tags are then added to the half reserved for "subsistence" hunting by Inuit, who prize the skins for making traditional winter clothing [if we're willing to devastate economies trying to save polar bears from carbon dioxide, why are we letting people make clothing out of them!?] or for selling whole to middlemen.
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Born, of the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, also labels as "nonsense" the contention of some that global polar bear numbers have grown impressively in recent decades. Historical data don't exist to make that comparison, he said.
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Already, in their scattered studies, researchers find bears thinner, hungrier, having fewer cubs.  [ok, we don't have historical data on polar bear populations, but we DO have historical data on polar bear "thinness" and "hungriness"?!]
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Like little Henry Nasogaluak Jr., Eddie Gruben's 103 grandchildren and great-grandchildren [I guess this guy doesn't buy into population control as a response to the global warming scam] will likely live in a very different Arctic in the 21st century, no matter what happens in courtrooms and government councils down south.

"The ice is melting [except it just grew by an area 1.5 times the size of Texas]," the old man said. He worried about his old foe, the white bear.