Posted on 08/03/2021 11:21:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
With climate change threatening the sea ice habitat of Emperor penguins, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to list the species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
“The lifecycle of Emperor penguins is tied to having stable sea ice, which they need to breed, to feed and to molt,” said Stephanie Jenouvrier, a penguin ecologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Research published Tuesday in the journal Global Change Biology found that by 2100, 98% of Emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction, if no changes are made to current rates of carbon emissions and climate change.
Around 70% of colonies will be in danger sooner, by 2050.
The new study looked at overall warming trends and the increasing likelihood of extreme weather fluctuations due to global warming. And it noted that extremely low levels of sea ice in 2016 led to a massive breeding failure of an Emperor penguin colony in Antarctica’s Halley Bay.
That year, seasonal sea ice broke up before penguin chicks had time to develop waterproof adult feathers, and about 10,000 baby birds drowned, Jenouvrier said. The colony did not recover afterward. …
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Science is settled, eh . . .
IIRC, the emperors actually prefer squid and krill.
The U.S. government has previously listed species outside the country as threatened
Not sure I actually picked up on that part of the statement, but all of the Northern tier landmasses are littered with polar bears. Which is the real issue. They aren’t endangered even when found floating on icebergs. I spent five years in Alaska back when hunting Polar bears was legal.
There’s a whole lot of never mind with that article and the author, but bingo on the distance to hatcheries.
Fun fact - Brown bears - grizzlies mate with Polar bears
And the climate warming cult told us that the island of Tuvalu in Oceania would sink into the ocean by 2005. Oops! It’s still there.
Melting polar ice means sea levels will be going up. Someone better tell Obama that his seaside mansion on Martha’s Vinyard is soon going to get wet. You think such a believer in global warming would have thought of this when he bought the place.
Fun fact - Brown bears - grizzlies mate with Polar bears
Almost sounds like the lead line to a good joke.
What do you get when Brown bears and grizzlies mate with Polar bears?
...but since that isn’t the case, are they able to conceive, and if so what do you get?
...but since that isn’t the case
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I don’t have a link, sorry, but they do mate. Offspring, I don’t know about. Ask your local Alaska Wildlife Agent
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