Is Global Warming Growing Super Polar Bears?

 Leslie Eastman at LI wonders Why Aren’t Polar Bears Going Extinct Like the “Experts” Said They Would? "Climate cultists are blaming accelerated evolution, which is possibly the most laughable explanation they could have offered."

Back in 2019. I covered a book entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened” by Dr. Susan Crockford. The University of Victoria professor analyzed the latest data and reviewed the questionable values in official estimates, concluding that polar bears are thriving.

Subsequently, she was fired from her position at the university.

However, it didn’t stop what she wrote from being true, as I demonstrated again in 2024.

 

Climate cultists are scrambling for explanations to explain the increasing numbers. Hilariously, they have alighted upon accelerated evolution to explain
what there are so many fat and happy polar bears in 2025…with the demise of the entire species slated for 2050.

A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and scientists believe it’s due to the impacts of climate change.

“It’s kind of the first time that we believe we’ve seen a mammal system such as the polar bear, where temperature has been the lead cause, and environmental stress at increased temperature, is impacting their DNA, their genome in real time,” Alice Godden, the lead author of the study, told ABC News.

Researchers say the discovery of these genetic changes offers a glimmer of hope for the bears’ survival, as two-thirds of the world’s population could perish by 2050.

 

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is one of the core global hubs for climate nonsense and is perhaps best known for its Climatic Research Unit (CRU). According to their report, the researchers compared blood samples from polar bears in northeastern and southeastern Greenland and examined gene activity using RNA sequencing, focusing on “jumping genes” (transposons) that can alter how other genes function.

Lead researcher Dr Alice Godden, from UEA’s School of Biological Sciences, asserts that her team’s findings offer some “hope” for the polar bears but efforts to limit global temperature increases must continue.

“DNA is the instruction book inside every cell, guiding how an organism grows and develops,” she said. “By comparing these bears’ active genes to local climate data, we found that rising temperatures appear to be driving a dramatic increase in the activity of jumping genes within the southeastern Greenland bears’ DNA.

“Essentially this means that different groups of bears are having different sections of their DNA changed at different rates, and this activity seems linked to their specific environment and climate.

“This finding is important because it shows, for the first time, that a unique group of polar bears in the warmest part of Greenland are using ‘jumping genes’ to rapidly rewrite their own DNA, which might be a desperate survival mechanism against melting sea ice.”

You know what else is accelerating? The level of skepticism at climate cult research.

Jumping jelly genes! Polar Bears are a relatively recently evolved species, apparently splitting off from ancestral Brown/Grizzly bears about half a million years or so ago, and the two species still occasionally interbreed to produce hybrid "Pizzly Bears." This makes them only a little older than modern Homo sapiens, which seems to have emerged about 300,000 years ago. They could certainly still be evolving.