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Biggest iceberg threat to penguins, scientists(Global Warming Of Course)
Waterbury Republican-American ^
| December 17, 2004
| Associated Press
Posted on 12/17/2004 2:35:26 PM PST by Graybeard58
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The penguins are important to scientists as markers of environmental change, such as global warming. The iceberg is threatening two of four colonies in the area that scientists have been studying for 25 years.
To: Graybeard58
"Iceberg poses no threat to Antarctic personnel" - "National Science Foundation (NSF) officials said today that iceberg B-15A is not blocking access to McMurdo Station, the U. S. logistics hub for much of the nation's research activity in Antarctica, contradicting widely circulated reports to the contrary." (National Science Foundation)
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:38:46 PM PST
by
ZGuy
To: Graybeard58
If they see Leonardo Dicaprio around, run like hell!
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:39:36 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Oil-for-Payoffs: The UN lied, how many died?)
To: Graybeard58
I guess it would be "unfair" in the eyes of the scientists to lend a helping hand by providing food for the chicks??
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:39:51 PM PST
by
VRWCTexan
(History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
To: Darkwolf377
How many time I done told you guys..
Its NOT global warming
The melting ice from the North Pole creates excess fresh water in the North Atlantic...
and SWITCHES OFF THE GULF STREAM....
Causing a MINI ICE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPE
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:42:05 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenschardenfreudery)
To: VRWCTexan
They have been studying them for 25 years. Wonder how much that cost? I bet it would buy a whole lot of penguin food.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:42:46 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Graybeard58
The day after tomorrow I'll still want my money back from that crappy movie.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:48:04 PM PST
by
oldleft
To: Graybeard58
I can't be the only person reading this who is thinking "Explosives"!
And if they made a really good DVD of the project, they could buy enough explosives and penguin food for years to come.
I'd buy one.
To: Graybeard58
Wouldn't it be fun to read of the melt down of the last ice age beginning about 20,000 years ago?
Imagine, rather than scientests, Shamans probably were sacrificing the lives of young maidens in order to appease the Gods; men and women would be put to death for uttering words that displeased the Gods who were causing the devastating melt down thus destroying hunting and causing flooding of the coastal cities.
Ah yes, Global Warming scientests - the modern world's answer to the Shamans of old.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:54:03 PM PST
by
matchwood
To: Graybeard58
The largest floating thing on the planet ... "is" ...
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:56:27 PM PST
by
First_Salute
(May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: Graybeard58
""It could all fail ... and more than 50,000 souls will have gone west again," he said, referring to penguins. "
The elves are letting penguins on their ships? I can understand Bilbo, Frodo and Gandalf, but this is ridiculous!
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:57:06 PM PST
by
Moral Hazard
(With a pickle mind we kick the nipple beer.)
To: Graybeard58
Save the penguins. Nuke the iceberg.
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posted on
12/17/2004 2:57:56 PM PST
by
PeterFinn
(The NAACP can have a recount of the Ohio vote if I can have a recount of the Million Man March.)
To: PeterFinn
mechanic: "well, looks like you blew a seal"
penguin: "no, that's icecream"
To: farmfriend
To: Spud Webb
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:06:08 PM PST
by
PeterFinn
(The NAACP can have a recount of the Ohio vote if I can have a recount of the Million Man March.)
To: Graybeard58
""It could all fail ... and more than 50,000 souls will have gone west again,""
Oh, for crying out loud. Fetuses don't have souls, but baby penguins do? Tolkein must be spinning in his grave.
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:10:12 PM PST
by
dangus
To: VRWCTexan
I guess it would be "unfair" in the eyes of the scientists to lend a helping hand by providing food for the chicks??Not sure that's practical. Pengun Chow is probably hard to buy in Antarctica.
But something caught my attention. The penguins have to travel 60 miles to get to water to catch food for their chicks?
Either those dumm penguins walked waaaaay too far to lay their eggs, or, as I suspect, there is water just below them, if they could get to it and catch their own food.
How thick is the ice? How big a deal is it to help them get access to the fish where they are? How difficult can it be for the wisest creature on the planet, who would presume to "stop global warming"?
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:12:00 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: PeterFinn
SAVE THE PENGUINS!
Nuke the iceberg.
What a wonderful bumper sticker that would make!
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:15:38 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: First_Salute
Michael Moore?
Sally Struthers?
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:16:35 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: Publius6961
"Wilson, New Zealand's project leader for the study of the four Adele penguin colonies in the region, said he was sure all the colonies would survive -- though their numbers could decline by up to 70 percent."
Just like I'm sure that it has happened many times before.
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posted on
12/17/2004 3:17:23 PM PST
by
geopyg
("And the whiners will eventually move on to bitch about something else." (Donald Rumsfeld))
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