You what you Freepers miss by just looking at the pictures and not reading the articles in National Geographic!
Posted on 07/01/2015 3:27:17 PM PDT by Zakeet
5. Global warming
Although Frank J. Schwartz, a shark biologist with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says there’s too much natural variability in weather cycles to blame the recent shark attacks on global warming, Burgess says the link is plausible.
“Clearly global climate change is a reality and it has resulted in warmer temperatures in certain places at certain times,” says Burgess.
As warming is expected to increase, it will likely bring more sharks farther north and entice more people to get into the water, which will lead to more bites.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
You what you Freepers miss by just looking at the pictures and not reading the articles in National Geographic!
Horsesh**
It's equally "plausible" that witch doctors from Alabama are sending the sharks here in order to promote Alabama beach tourism.
Is ANYTHING not caused by GoreBull warming?
He’s evil.
Actually they are caused by Fisherman/people fishing, aka “baiting sharks” from shore and piers in the region..PERIOD
The master list of things caused by global warming needs to be updated.
Is one shark or many? Have they checked the bite radius?
(I slept at a Holiday Inn and watched “Jaws.”)
Mangia! Mangia!
He seems to be leaning more to the side of it not being global warming. I'm betting the author of the article framed a question to get that last remark in.
What a pantload. It is July 1st in Cleveland and we are at 65 deg and a high of 70. The last month was as cold a June as I remember and we have two days projected over 80 deg in the next ten days. BTW nights have been in the forties and fifties. IN JUNE!
Any more global warming and we are going to freeze to death!
The one guy, Schwartz the shark biologist, says global warming is irrelevant, while the other guy, Burgess (no credentials mentioned) uses “plausible” to mean “impossible to disprove completely.”
I had a friend in high school who was bitten on her foot by a shark in Virginia Beach, around 1984. When my husband says, “Oh, it’s just a sand tiger ...,” I say, “Get out of the water, kids. Losing a foot would be a nuisance.”
Everything Nat Geo touches mentions globull warming. I had to quit watching the Nat Geo channel because when they do the flyover picture tours of every freakin’ state they weasel word the subject into the narrative. It’s pure brainwashing.
Wasn’t there a frenzy of shark attacks the summer before 9/11?
But wait! Forty years ago when JAWS came out, people started killing sharks on sight! The scientists of the time feared we would make sharks an ENDANGERED SPECIES and upset the balance of the oceans!
So what happened!
That’s why I favor inground pools.
It’s certainly a sure way to avoid shark attack. The house we rented in Myrtle Beach in May had a pool, but I really prefer the ocean. The statistical likelihood of shark bite is awfully small, especially if you’re not swimming near a fishing pier.
I only watched that movie because Fred Ward is one of my favorite actors.
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