But we’ll do it anyway.
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Penguin disappearance “cannot be directly attributed to climate change”
But we’ll do it anyway.
Robert W Felix
Scientists are trying to determine why Emperor penguins in Antarctica have undergone an ‘unprecedented’ failure to breed.
And even though this article in Science admits that “the move cannot directly be attributed to climate change,” it ever so sneakily tries to blame it on global warming anyway, warning that the penguins are “particularly vulnerable to climate change, because warming waters are melting the sea ice where they live and breed.”
However, buried in the rhetoric is a reference to “the periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean.”
Oh, does that mean this may be a natural cycle?
The article also mentions that sea ice has been affected by “a particularly intense El Nino.”
Oh, does that mean that the sea-ice disruption may not have been caused by humans?
Most readers of the Science article are probably not aware that Antarctic waters do indeed warm and cool periodically. Just look at a couple of articles that I’ve posted in the past few years
There’s this one from 12 Oct 2017: “Unusually thick ice in Antarctica – Thousands of penguin chicks starve,” reads the headline.
Unusually thick sea ice in East Antarctica forced the adult penguins to travel further for food. The unfortunate chicks starved to death as they waited for their parents to return.
Or this one from 1 July 2014: “Antarctic sea ice hits second all-time record in a week.”
“The new record is 2.112 million square kilometers above normal.”
Or this one, just 4 days later, on 5 July 2014.
“Emperor penguins in Antarctica threatened by melting sea ice.”
(This fearful conclusion is based on “mathematical models.”)
First, Antarctica hits an all-time record for sea ice and then, just 4 days later, the penguins are threatened by melting sea ice?
So which should we worry about? Melting Antarctic ice? Unusually thick Antarctic ice? Ocean warming? Natural cycles?
Or scientific chicanery?
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Thanks to , Ianna Fleming for this info
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