Posted on 11/25/2023 6:00:00 AM PST by devane617
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. -- Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches to lay their eggs over the past several months. This year, record nesting was found in Florida and elsewhere despite growing concern about threats from climate change.
In Florida, preliminary state statistics show more than 133,840 loggerhead turtle nests, breaking a record set in 2016. Same for green turtles, where the estimate of at least 76,500 nests is well above the previous mark set in 2017.
High sea turtle nest numbers also have been reported in South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia, although not all set records like Florida, where Justin Perrault, vice president of research at Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, said the number of nests is remarkable this year.
“We had more nests than we had ever seen before on our local beaches,” said Perrault, whose organization monitors Palm Beach County and broke a local record by 4,000 nests. “That's quite a bit of nesting.”
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Assuming that global warming has been “a thing” for decades now, doesn’t the title contradict itself?
I feel like the girl in the exorcist when I read the title.
They just can’t control themselves. They are like old people with urinary incontinence.
Between the global warming and the plastics, somebody’s got a lot of ‘splainin to do.
It won’t be “global warming” that threatens the turtles, predators will wipe out 80+% of the little ones, long before maturity.
As I interpret this, the news is that their was Good News about turtles in 2016, 2017, and also this year. And, of course, this is bad news. Very bad news.
I miss Rush Limbaugh
Seagulls before they ever reach the surf...
Turtle lights and all! Sad to live where lighting at night is not allowed.
Oh no! Not the dreaded Gorebal warming.
Yes, but are the turtles ‘happy’, or sad about global warming. What does the turtle community think?
Those are the very first words of the article. Modern sea turtles separated from other lines of turtles about 110 million years ago. It has been much warmer at times in the past 110 million years than it is now, yet turtles survive.
AP, Fox, and all the major news organizations are running this crap story today.
Also, there weren’t any U.S. beaches millions of years ago. Not even a thousand years ago. Careless writing.
Global Warming? What happened to Climate Change?
Like true liberals everywhere, the article takes a basis for good news and turns it into a basis for gloom and doom
Liberals just are not happy u less they and everyone around them are miserable
So it sounds like climate change caused a record number of their nests but now it’s going to kill them????
“Global Warming? What happened to Climate Change?”
The verbiage used changes with the desired story outcome of the writer. Or at the whim of an editor or other office person.
Who knows, the DEI expert may be deciding what gets blamed.
“BTW, I do turtle patrol in my community and I’ve never seen as many healthy nests as we have this year.”
You’re white...guilty.
“You’re white...guilty.”
My 2004 Duramax Diesel makes it even worse! Turtles love the smell of diesel fumes early in the mornning.
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