[CaptainK]

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.

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.

[Tax-chick]

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.”