One year ago, crack scientists announced that Penguins were endangered by sea ice loss
29 Jun 2014
Emperor penguins should be classed as an endangered species because the majority of colonies will have lost half their populations by the end of the century, biologists have warned.
The flightless birds which inhabit Antarctica are threatened by changes to sea ice which are being driving by climate change.
Emperor Penguins are now endangered, warn biologists – Telegraph
Since then, Antarctic sea ice set an all-time record high
Us are being confusing by climate Engrish. All your base are belong to us.
I’m sure they are threatened by sea ice changes. They are probably starving to death.
No, Emperor penguins are threatened by idiots trying to count them…
And thought the pengs were very small, they had to count them all.
All as ‘A Day in the Life’.
Emperor penguins have been there for millions of years through ice ages and one interglacial maximum after another. They really don’t give a shit about 400 ppm seltzer gas
Emperor penguins have to walk for miles over the ice to get to their nursery sites and the more ice there is, the longer it takes for an adult to make the round trip and bring back food for the chicks. So the statement from above, ‘Emperor penguins should be classed as an endangered species because the majority of colonies will have lost half their populations by the end of the century, biologists have warned.
The flightless birds which inhabit Antarctica are threatened by changes to sea ice which are being driving(sic) by climate change.’ is correct.
So following your reasoning, Emperor Penguins became extinct during the Wisconsin Ice Age because they had to walk so far to reach their rookies.
‘Emperor penguins should be classed as an endangered species because the majority of colonies will have lost half their populations by the end of the century.’
There is a distinction between endangered and extinct.
SHEEESH,
If the penguins survived the Sea Ice during the Wisconsin Ice Age then the piddling little sea ice of today isn’t going to ‘endangered’ them.
SEE: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc.html#maps
http://www.iceagenow.com/Glacial_Maximum_World_Map.jpg
“…majority of colonies will have lost half their populations by the end of the century.”
I take it that is another super-duper modeled prophecy then.
Sorry NO. It’s bulls?|t for all the usual funding reasons.
This assumes that the penguins are not adaptable enough to change the location where they “nest”. (Yes I know they don’t build a nest really they just trap the egg between feet and belly feathers.) http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2014/06/22/1024539_emperor-penguins-relocate-nesting-grounds.html
For that species to have survived so long suggests they do have such adaptability.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/01/blinded-by-beliefs-the-straight-poop-on-emperor-penguins/
There are links to papers and plenty of cross references in that article…
This is a test to see if this comment gets kicked into moderation too.
Dave Burton warned me that the Forbes site was hacked back in feb
This graph looks like something run through the Mann hockeysticko-maker.
This is the new “normal” in brain function. RTF
“Penguins were endangered by sea ice loss”
They said the same about the Linux desktop but like Penguins it persists still.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Tux-Shirt.svg/400px-Tux-Shirt.svg.png
My Penguin and my hubby’s are working just fine.
So is mine on a 15year old Pentium III laptop.
Penguins rule!
Currently running Knoppix 7.2 on this as I had a hard drive crash and haven’t gotten around to rebuilding things yet.
good luck with repairing it.
🙂
29 Jun 2014 is not a year ago. — John M Reynolds
Too much ice is threatening poor penguins. We need more CO2 in the atmosphere to save them!