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Virtually all emperor penguins doomed for extinction by 2100 as climate change looms, study finds
WAPO ^ | Aug. 4, 2021 | Rachel Pannett

Posted on 08/04/2021 8:27:14 AM PDT by PROCON

Nearly all of the world’s emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction by 2100, a new study has found, as the United States moves to list them as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

If climate change continues at its current rate, more than 98 percent of emperor penguin colonies are expected to become quasi-extinct by the turn of the century, a group of global researchers wrote in the journal Global Change Biology on Tuesday. The scientists’ near-term predictions were equally grim: They estimated at least two-thirds of colonies would be quasi-extinct by 2050.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: bs; climatechange; doom; globalwarming; penguins
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1 posted on 08/04/2021 8:27:14 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON; Army Air Corps
YARN | Doom on you! Doom on you! | Ice Age (2002) | Video gifs by quotes |  551239dc | 紗
2 posted on 08/04/2021 8:28:22 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: PROCON

That means we will still have 2% to get ready for the next ice age.


3 posted on 08/04/2021 8:29:08 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: PROCON

None of us alive today will be around to verify this and certainly those fearmongering today won’t be alive to be held accountable when their daft doomsday predictions fail to materialize in 79 years.


4 posted on 08/04/2021 8:29:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: PROCON

are expected to become quasi-extinct...

Quasi-extinct?!


5 posted on 08/04/2021 8:29:21 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: PROCON
Doomed.


6 posted on 08/04/2021 8:30:09 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: PROCON

Like The Great Auk


7 posted on 08/04/2021 8:30:24 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

Nobody will be around to bother them in 2100. AOC said we will be extinct less than 10 years from now.


8 posted on 08/04/2021 8:30:49 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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Does this have anything to do with that Mary Poppins movie? They forced them to dance to the point of exhaustion. It was inhumane.


9 posted on 08/04/2021 8:31:05 AM PDT by BipolarBob (To get out of this game, guys . . it looks like . . we're going to have to save Jumanji.)
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To: PROCON

Do they taste like chicken, turkey, duck or goose?


10 posted on 08/04/2021 8:31:13 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (... to the Republic for which it stands ...)
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To: PROCON

And this makes it the mandatory DAILY article of some species that is doomed because of a supposed 1 degree C or so average temp rise in the next few decades.

Interesting, is it not, all the species that thrived in the many degrees C temp rise we’ve had since the Maunder minimum.

Even more interesting is the virtual 100% failure of ALL of the climate change models/predictions published since around 1950 or so.


11 posted on 08/04/2021 8:31:26 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I’ve done my own study, and it day people who produce and post this kind of crap are way less intelligent than an Emperor Penguin.


12 posted on 08/04/2021 8:32:14 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: PROCON

Predicting the Future again are they ? How about some Lotto numbers ?


13 posted on 08/04/2021 8:32:37 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

Suspect the Emperor penguins will still be around when the Washington Post is long gone.


14 posted on 08/04/2021 8:33:17 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Flick Lives
(Quasi-extinction refers to a population being doomed for extinction even if some members of the species remain alive.)

SCIENCE!

15 posted on 08/04/2021 8:34:31 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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Again, ‘studies’ are a dime a dozen these days given the decades long political infestation of the groups and organizations doing the alleged ‘studies’....


16 posted on 08/04/2021 8:34:57 AM PDT by cranked
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but I thought all the ice would be gone by 2010 according the the Goracle...


17 posted on 08/04/2021 8:35:15 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: PROCON

“virtually all” emperor penguins cannot go extinct, by definition.

The species goes extinct if all emperor penguins die. If some remain the species is not extinct. Individual penguins can die, and lots of individual penguins might die, but individuals and groups of penguins can’t go extinct.


18 posted on 08/04/2021 8:35:21 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: PROCON

They - enough of them - will adapt.

The genetic ability to adapt (built into LIFE) and the LIFE urge to survive is the rock bed of evolution. Evolution minus a changing world is a non sequitur.


19 posted on 08/04/2021 8:36:31 AM PDT by Wuli
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Moment of silence ... RIP. They had a good run ...


20 posted on 08/04/2021 8:38:55 AM PDT by rayincolorado ("Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it ...")
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