Claim: 'The polar bear population has been growing'.

Knowledge: Jan 27, 2023 ... “Populations have not grown,” NAME_1, chief scientist for Polar Bears International, said in an email. “Rather our growing knowledge has ...
Jun 17, 2022 ... A secret population of polar bears in Greenland has been discovered in a seemingly impossible habitat — one that, for most of the year, ...
May 18, 2020 ... There is no scientific evidence that the entire polar bear population has been growing, contrary to what this video claims. Of the 19 ...
Oct 26, 2021 ... "Since 2005, however, the estimated global polar bear population has risen by more than 30 per cent to about 30,000 bears, far and away the ...
Jun 16, 2022 ... An isolated population of polar bears has been discovered in southeast Greenland, which is free of sea ice for most of the year.

Question: Does the given knowledge support or not the claim? Assume that all the given knowledge is reliable. Think step-by-step. Choose among four possible choices to answer:
A) SUPPORTS
B) REFUTES
C) NOT ENOUGH INFO
D) DISPUTES

Then explain the reasoning and the assumptions behind your answer. Write exactly 5 paragraphs each separated with two new lines answering this question. The first paragraph must start with "accounts".
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