I don't know anything about that particular polar bear, but it would have simply become food for other bears if there was widespread starvation. Most likely that bear had been injured or was ill for other causes. They are mobile and can travel quite a distance in search of food.
It reminds me of a university professor wanting to do a study on an extinction of a type of mouse he went for funding the study the university said there was no money available. He put in the study again saying mouse extinction do to global warming and got all the money he could use.
As cold sweeps down through the US and Europe. The snow and ice are stopping the Green energy. Solar panels in Germany puts them back into using coal and gas. The wind generators are needing helicopters to pour deicer over the blades.
Apparently there was a somewhat major solar event yesterday, but eerily 3 hours of data are mysteriously missing. Strange. Any way, the effects should impact Earth in the next 24 to 48 hours. This guy says to fill up you gas tanks just in case Sun
Coronal Mass Ejections, baby. We are nearing the sunspot maximum period in the sun's 11 year cycle heading into 2025. The Sun...it's alive!!!!! And it has more impact on our climate than all the Range Rovers ever sold. Don: Did you see that the Earth is slowing down in it's rotation? They claim that April 25th was the longest day we'll see this year (not in terms of daylight hours, but in hours/minutes/seconds/milliseconds to complete one rotation.) Discussion at 3:50