Zoologist Susan J. Crockford on warmist polar bear misinformation: "what both of these accounts fail to mention is that these well documented mortality events were associated with especially cold winters and heavier than usual sea ice"

Cooling the polar bear spin | polarbearscience

[Susan J. Crockford] I’ll deal with some of the specific claims made in the Struzik article in subsequent posts. What really irked me, however, was seeing that this new academic paper by Stirling and Derocher makes a similar statements to one I took serious exception to in Stirling’s book — both misrepresent the facts regarding ringed seal and polar bear mortality events that occurred in the early 1970s in the southern Beaufort Sea. As I pointed out in my review of Stirling’s book, what both of these accounts fail to mention is that these well documented mortality events were associated with especially cold winters and heavier than usual sea ice.

Bio | polarbearscience

Dr. Susan J. Crockford is a zoologist with more than 35 years experience, including work on the Holocene history of Arctic animals. Like Ian Stirling, Susan Crockford earned her undergraduate degree in zoology at the University of British Columbia. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, B.C. Polar bear evolution is one of Dr. Crockford’s professional interests, which she discusses in her book, Rhythms of Life: Thyroid Hormone and the Origin of Species. She blogs at PolarBearScience.com