And they fast, completely, from the time the ice melts to the time it forms again: when they’re hunting in the fall, they’re going out to eat for the first time in months.
Link to a study

But — well, yes, they do eat people: that is, they will purposely track and hunt people, rather than just being aggressive or unpredictable when crowded or surprised like a grizzly or a black bear. They’re the only carnivore that hunts humans, with the exception of some tigers and big crocodiles. Unlike most bears, they’re pure carnivores: that’s all there is to eat in the arctic. So to them, we’re just one more big bag of meat, and in this kind of of harsh environment, meat is meat — you take what you can get.

It makes looking at images of the bears sniffing around the tourist snow-cats up at Churchill Manitoba particularly interesting.

Here’s a link a Quirks & Quarks podcastthat has a response to the question: it’s the question of the week at the very end. Quirks is the CBC radio science show: it’s reputable.

Like the kind of stupid that votes away jobs, healthcare and union influence so Adam and Steve cain’t turn teh yowwuns to teh gay and Adam and Eve cain’t call a mulligan on teh blastocyst.

Y’know…STUPTEHFUCKID.

How does he have a job?