Posted on 04/30/2015 9:34:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A stranded sea lion pup nicknamed “Rubbish” was walking along a San Francisco sidewalk Thursday morning in what marine mammal rescuers fear could be the “new normal” of a warming Pacific Ocean.
The pup was seen waddling about in the Marina District along Divisadero Street before someone spotted the unusual sight and called it in about 7 a.m., according to Laura Sherr, a spokeswoman for the center. Sherr said the male pup was captured by net, put into a doggie-style crate and was whisked off for follow-up care at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
Rubbish is one of 1,800 or more California sea lion pups that have been stranded along the coast of California in the first four months of 2015 year because of a drastically warming ocean and a dwindling food supply, according to a March study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “In the first four months of 2015, we have rescued more animals than we rescued during the entirety of 2014,” said Dr. Shawn Johnson, the center’s chief veterinarian. “What’s scary is that we don’t know when this will end. This could be the new normal—a changed environment that we’re dealing with now.”
Johnson also immediately recognized Rubbish: The sea lion had previously been rescued by the Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center in February and brought to The Marine Mammal Center for care.
At the time, Rubbish was eight months old and weighed 30 pounds when he was rescued. He was treated for pneumonia and malnutrition and was released March 23 at Point Reyes National Seashore.
Johnson and his colleagues are concerned that if warmer waters along the coast persist, the sea lion “crisis” will continue. He urged the world’s leaders to address the three primary stressors to our ocean environment: overfishing, pollution and global warming.
“We know everything is connected —a change in the winds is leading to thousands of sea lions stranding on the beach,” Johnson said. “It’s all the more reason we should be paying close attention to the fate the sea lions, a top predator in the ocean.”
The Marine Mammal Center is the world’s largest rehabilitation facility for marine mammals. As of Monday, the center has responded to 927 California sea lions and currently has 122 sea lions in its care. The center says it has successfully released 159 healthy California sea lions back to the wild since Jan. 1.
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maybe it’s just the new normal of Sea LIon overpopulation and the prohibitions against culling them.
Probably looking for some sunscreen.
Are the oceans really warming? Maybe it’s us frogs being slowly brought to a boil.
Actually no. He was chased onto land by polar bears that fell off the melting icebergs who then swam to Calipornia, got brain cancer from excessive carbon emissions and tried reading him passages from the Bible.
Being an LBGTQRSTUVWXYZ Sea Lion, he ran from oppression, seeking out a safe sone free of trigger words like “The” and “Is”, only to be beaten by a white cop who moonlighted as a KluKlucSealtrainer at an amusement park.
I am entirely unsure how or why you are unaware of this tragedy.
So.... this young sea lion walks into a bar and...
Broke his neck on impact?
because of a drastically warming ocean ..”
Really? Try swimming in Ocean Beach without a wet suit.
ROFL!
NBC: Bay Area — says it all. Move along.
“A stranded sea lion pup nicknamed “Rubbish” was walking along a San Francisco sidewalk Thursday morning in what marine mammal rescuers fear could be the “new normal” of a warming Pacific Ocean.”
So, now we have the FINAL proof of global warming! The science is definitely settled now: a sea lion pup (named “Rubbish” even) was walking along a San Francisco sidewalk! And in fact, I do now seem to remember that Al Gore repeatedly emphasized in “An Inconvenient Truth” that all the climate models were predicting that sea lion pubs wandering around San Francisco would be the final proof of global warming, though I’m not sure if the models were so specific as to give the actual names of the wandering pubs.
(BTW, I had no idea that sea lions actually walked; is that a side-effect of global warming as well?)
It ain’t funny! Sealophobes have no place in America!
Even the climate scientists say this isn’t due to global warming, this is a regional weather event.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/04/20/blob-weird-weather/26073153/
Climate Change is truly all-powerful. It causes wars in the Mid-east, riots in American cities, infertility in Indian women, and seal pups to walk the streets of San Francisco.
...Dogs and cats living together....real Wrath of God Stuff!
/Ghostbusters
supreme court to rule on sea lion and woman marriages soon- proponents claim discrimination, and that they feel like second class citizens because society won’t let them marry sea lions
Bakery sued for not baking a cake celebrating sea lion/ woman marriage- woman is traumatized by bakery refusing to bake the cake- sues for 100,000,000 and wins
Actually I am looking forward to a study showing that Global Warming/Climate Change causes penis enlargement. Nor for myself of course. I’m only thinking of those poor unfortunates amongst us.
Monkeys were granted human rights. It’s clearly discrimination to shut out the opportunity for dignity it would provide the minority seal population.
Does anyone proofread anymore?
It was Frisco. they probably got it from an S+M sex furniture store so it was an accurate statement The Missionary style crates just sounded too religious anyway... ;)
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