[presidio9]

[reagan_fanatic]

"Duh - It's Bush's fault?"

[pillut48]

How do they *know* it’s ‘far more than normal’?

Maybe they do this every coupla hundred years, or thousand years or whatever! I am so tired of all this gwbs!

[dfwgator]

The walrus was Paul.

[RightWhale]

• The National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder

  Oxygen partial pressure effect.

[ClearCase_guy]

walruses congregated on land are susceptible to additional human contact, whether a low-flying airplane or a hunter's boat

Yes, they'd be safer floating on sea-ice. Then the boats and the planes wouldn't be able to come so close ...

[Tarpon]

Where did the Arctic Ice go, well NASA has been asking that question, and has scientists working on it. Yesterday they sent out a press release that solved the mystery.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/quikscat-20071001.html

It’s the wind, and yes it has done it before. Piled the ice up, blew it into warmer water and it melted.

I wouldn’t expect AP to know that ... after all, they just use DNC talking points as news these days.

[magslinger]

By August, several thousand animals — far more than normal

So, the walrus popultion is up?

[pillut48]

“The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things—of polar bears and melting ice, and making up
scientific things...”

[Deaf Smith]

"that could can panic the group, setting off a deadly stampede to the water."

It wouldn't be like the thousands of gnus that drowned in Africa, walrus can swim.

[east1234]

This should increase the polar bear population, easy hunting.

[crazyshrink]

There are no penguins in the Artic

[wgflyer]

“Walruses on shore may be forced to swim farther to forage, expending more energy....”

Of course, they’ll not need so many calories to stay warm sitting on an ice-less beach. They may decide that they like this new twist to their lives and move south the next time the ice closes in.