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July 20, 2008 Save The Baby PenguinsYou might have read recently about baby penguins dying in Rio de Janeiro. For example, CBS News reported that
CBS News noted that "Experts are divided over the possible causes." The possibilities mentioned were overfishing, pollution and, of course, "global warming," where they mean man-caused GW, of course. Notice that natural causes never seem to make the list. And strangely, the pollution explanation is based on the penguins getting into the Campos oil fields which are offshore Brazil, not Antarctica. So how and why did they get there? And the overfishing theory came without any other supporting data, such as Antarctic fish counts. The Guardian was more direct: it titled it's penguin article "Victim's of Global Warming?"
So the Guardian and CBS seem to differ on whether the penguins are dead on arrival, or die later, but global warming is a top contender in either case. Both stories note that this has always happened, but the numbers have been greater this year. How does this global warming thing work? If it is too warm in the Antarctic for the baby penguins, they swim to ... warmer places? Maybe there's another explanation: global cooling. The area of the southern hemisphere covered by sea ice is at an unprecedented high point. Maybe the baby penguins, when they jump off that ice ledge to go fishing, are already closer to Rio than ever before, so more make the trip than ever before. (A graph of the southern hemisphere sea ice anomaly is available via the University of Illinois, but navigating there isn't easy. In fact, it might now be impossible. This U. of Ill. site is pro-AGW, and does not trumpet this graph. Try here, then click on the small graph at the bottom to get a close-up, here.) (I think we need a "Climatologist Doll" or maybe just an "Al Gore Doll." Pull the string and it blames whatever you are talking about on "global warming." )
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I wonder if burning the heretics at the stake contributes to GW?
Posted by: DaveT | July 20, 2008 12:49 PM
Mr. Hoven,
What a wonderful idea! I can picture an Al Gore doll with a sign (ask Al a question) and a string to pull that says nothing but 'its global warming', ha, ha.
SF
Bill
Posted by: William Langston | July 20, 2008 01:57 PM
Darn! I was just getting used to blaming everything from hurricanes to hangnails on El Nino!
Posted by: Anon 1:50 | July 20, 2008 03:24 PM
If one is to believe 'March of the Penguins', these little beasties are tougher than USMC Mountain Troops. Whatever Ma Nature dishes out...they can take it and then some. They've seen it all. Hey...something's going on out there that's none of our nosey damn business... that's all. No AGW eco-crime is being committed whatsoever.(Although I do know a slip and fall attorney that specializes in marine accidents thats interested.)
Penguins are a prey species that migrate en masse across vast stretches of open ocean in huge groups covering mind boggling distances. Their migratory patterns are closely followed by perpetually starving predators. Its life's mortal dance. To sharks they are fat tasty little snack cookies that are much easier to deal with than a thrashing sperm whale.
This Old Ranger has forgot more about nature than the average Green Gorebot has retained. I lived and worked oudoors for 35 years and kept my eyes and ears wide open, and my big mouth shut. I learned that technique from a dirt poor Cherokee who developed a wicked fastball from hunting grouse with rocks...and yes...I have hugged a tree...my favorite pine was pining. Sniff. Old trees need comforting too ya know...its not easy being green.
Another possible cause of the dead penguin chicks, other than shark tooth puncture trauma, could be sucralose poisoning from the Coke Zeros they've been quaffing on the icebergs with the happy dancing Polar Bears! Call CSI!
Posted by: Ranger Joe | July 20, 2008 05:31 PM
Algore doll? You mean the one that, when you pull the string the head spins and it spews latin gibberish followed by pea soup? That Algore?
Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.
The spirit of Reason compells you!
The spirit of Reason compells you!
Posted by: Texas Tom | July 21, 2008 11:47 AM