Biologists Let Attenborough Push False Starvation Claims About Barents Sea Bears

Biologists Let Attenborough Push False Starvation Claims About Barents Sea Bears

A 2011 Frozen Planet episode warned of starving polar bears in the Barents Sea despite evidence they were healthy.

Biologists allowed David Attenborough to tell BBC viewers that Barents Sea bears were dying of starvation in his 2011 Frozen Planet episode when they knew it wasn’t true

In the climate change episode of his 2011 BBC Frozen Planet series ‘On Thin Ice’, Sir David Attenborough told viewers that polar bear mothers and cubs across the Arctic were starving because climate change was melting the sea ice, even as he sat beside a fat, healthy Barents Sea female (below). I wonder how Sir David Attenborough feels now? Has anyone bothered to tell him that Norwegian biologists have finally admitted that Barents Sea polar bea…