Posted on 12/02/2015 3:39:28 AM PST by Zakeet
As part of its cheerleading for the U.N. climate convention in Paris, the New York Times is running a series on What Climate Change Looks Like. First up are the walruses:
This week, we're featuring images that show how global warming has already impacted the world.Packed shoulder to shoulder, an estimated 35,000 Pacific walruses congregated on Alaska's northwest coast near Point Lay last fall. Normally the mammals find ocean ice sheets to rest on, but as waters have warmed the ice sheets have disappeared. In seven of the last nine years swarms of walruses swam ashore for refuge, as shown above, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The first time this happened was in 2007 when summer ice levels were at a record low.
The Times is peddling ignorance here. Actually, the congregation of walruses on land is an age-old phenomenon known as "hauling out." It has nothing to do with the volume of sea ice at any given time. In fact, the Times is not just peddling ignorance, it is recycling it. Today's Times piece is paraphrased from a much-derided column by Gail Collins that ran in October 2014.
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Because its writers are so ill-informed, the New York Times is an especially laughable purveyor of politically-motivated climate hysteria. But in reality, the whole warmist enterprise is one big fraud, as is demonstrated on a daily basis.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Can you believe that the author of this article would call the environmental lobby and the New York Times idiots?
I heard some nutty woman on Hannity on my drive home last night spouting climate change garbage. That picture summed her up perfectly.
I wouldn't miss the haul out. I plan on hooking up with a few cows. See you there, ciao.
The time has come for the New York Times to talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings . . . but not why the sea is boiling hot: ‘cause it ain’t.
Well-played, very well-played.
Looks like they're huddling, trying to keep warm.
ff
“Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo!”
LOL!
Koo-koo-ka-choo.
We can still talk about whether pigs have wings, could they be built into a pants suit?
I believe I saw pictures like that in National Geographic or the like fifty or more years ago. It seems to be just something walruses(walri?) do.
Happens all over the world, to various species. However, it is associated with warmer climate:
Here is an example from Panama City, FL in early Spring.
“I could be the Walrus, I’d still have to bum rides off of people.”
Times change; human (and feline) nature doesn’t.
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