Warming causing gray whales to lose weight, say scientists

Breitbart.com ^ | 7-12-07 | Breitbart

[KosmicKitty]

Gee, wish it would help me drop a few pounds

[stan_sipple]

we wouldnt know any contrary details from msm climate change reports would we?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

What an amazing coincidence! I’ve lost 15 pounds this summer, too...eating a diet of whale meat. ;)

[Matchett-PI]

"This foolishness is getting to be way over the top. Where is the sanity?"

In the other 50 + or - % of the country.

Dumbed-down "teachers" = dumbed-down students = more votes for DemocRATS.

[tiger-one]

And Ted Kennedy

[badgerlandjim]

"We'd better harvest a few extra, they're sayin' the whales are pretty scrawny this year."

[wbill]

Swartz has studied the pacific whale population since 1977 and last saw a major whale die-off in 1999 when an El Nino warming cycle left traditional northern feeding grounds barren and claimed one third of the population.

Wait a minute....weren't we just in an ElNino cycle, like, last year? Is it still going on?

This time is different, I guess. AlGore hadn't made his movie in 1999.

[PzLdr]

Then why are there so many fat people at the beach?

[OB1kNOb]

SAVE THE WHALES! COLLECT THE WHOLE SET ! (sorry)

[hunter112]

With the seas changing Swartz hopes the mammals can adapt.

This "scientist" should turn in his credentials. The way a species "adapts" is not that individual organisms figure out a way to get by, but that those whales that ARE adapted for a warmer climate survive and pass on their genes, while the non-adaptive whales die, and don't reproduce.

I think it's much more probably overfishing that has caused this, there's a much clearer manmade link to that, then there is to global warming.

[avacado]

"Scientists on the US Pacific coast are increasingly observing emaciated gray whales in what they fear is a sign that global warming is wreaking havoc in the whales' Bering Sea summer feeding grounds."

"Scientists on the US Pacific coast are increasingly observing emaciated gray whales in what they are going to blame on global warning to get more grant money."

[pikachu]

I wonder how much of the Gray's problems is due to the fact that they are well over the number marine biologists say is the optimal number whales. More whales, more competition for scares resources, and you get skinny whales.

Or maybe they all went bulemic after seeing Madonna last weekend at AlGores^TM's concert.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

The Bering sea just endured two of it's coldest years in over a hundred years.

Important fact, if true. Can you point me to a reference on this?

[norton]

"Nah, my SUV's gonna kill 'em off!"

We couldn't afford the Moby Dick accessory package but I do drive it around a few extra miles every day just to watch people on bus stops fall over.

[dead]

Sexy gray whales! Global warming rocks!

[norton]

""The gray whales are migrating later, not going as far north, and are producing fewer calves,"

Judging from human response to external stimulii - I'g guess the water was too cold farther north.

Serious interjection:

This guy did a photo survey of individual whales and came up will all the other - unsubstantiated - horrors?

"gray whales have patrolled the oceans for 30 million years, and have survived two ice ages. With the seas changing Swartz hopes the mammals can adapt."

Sounds like it worked OK before.

"Scientists have yet to determine just how much harder the gray whales are working to subsist, but the signs of emaciation are clear, according to Swartz...We have yet to find any indications of disease in the population"

Maybe a longer lens?

[HEY4QDEMS]

I’ll try to find the info later.

Right now, I have to do some real work for a change.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

I found this, which supports what you said, at least regarding 2006. However, this report regarding this season's ice seems to undermine your point.

[finnigan2]

“Could it be this is a false report?”

- If some Gray Whales are becoming skinny, why hasn’t a lack of food been considered as a possible cause?

[marvlus]

Maybe the Earth’s magnetic field is about to flip...

I think we're about 5 1/2 years away from that.