StoicLion: Their swimming endurance is good, but speed isn’t. Seals (their principal food) can out-swim them, They must hunt on ice flows, not in open water..Jim Guess: A blog calling itself science is no substitute for century-old, peer-reviewed scientific journals in quality of evidence. The North-East Passage has been open in the summer several years running, and Arctic Ocean towns have had to move inland because of erosion caused by the lack of ice along the shore. Go live with them for a couple of years and learn reality instead of reading what agrees with you.
StoicLion: Their swimming endurance is good, but speed isn’t. Seals (their principal food) can out-swim them, They must hunt on ice flows, not in open water..Jim Guess: A blog calling itself science is no substitute for century-old, peer-reviewed scientific journals in quality of evidence. The North-East Passage has been open in the summer several years running, and Arctic Ocean towns have had to move inland because of erosion caused by the lack of ice along the shore. Go live with them for a couple of years and learn reality instead of reading what agrees with you.