Posted on 06/29/2014 4:26:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
OSLO, (Reuters) - Global warming will cut Antarctica's 600,000-strong emperor penguin population by at least a fifth by 2100 as the sea ice on which the birds breed becomes less secure, a study said on Sunday.
The report urged governments to list the birds as endangered, even though populations in 45 known colonies were likely to rise slightly by 2050 before declining. Such a listing could impose restrictions on tourism and fishing companies.
The study is the first to project the long-term outlook for Antarctica's largest penguins, which can grow 1.2 meters (four ft) tall, seeking to fill a gap in understanding climate change and wildlife in one of the remotest parts of the planet.
Overall, numbers were set to fall by at least 19 percent from current levels by 2100 as sea ice melts. And two-thirds of colonies of the birds, which have distinctive golden head patches, would decline by more than half, it said.
"It's not happy news for the emperor penguin," said Hal Castellan of the U.S. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a co-author of the study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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Getting too cold even for penguins, eh?
Remember earlier this past year when the ship full of environmentalists against global warming got trapped in the ice and no one could rescue them for weeks?
Yeah well they’re hoping people won’t remember it either!
But their logic seems to be...
Global warming is SETTLED science. The debate is OVER. Regardless of any other facts, the ice will MELT because of it. Millions will die. Penguins, too.
Going the way of the polar bears, huh? /S
Waiter, waiter, over here please...
Another fine opinion from the, “I hope the sky is falling” crowd.
Idiots one and all...
Can’t predict the weather accurately seven days in advance, and yet they know all about 2100.
Ah no...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/29/antarctica-sets-new-record-for-sea-ice-area/
Antarctica sets new record for ice area....
Yeah, just wait around for a 100 years and we will admit we were wrong then.
That’s a good one Norm !
Yup, the warmers are 100% bass ackwards as usual. The usual extent of Antarctic sea ice NOW will probably lower Emperor Penguin numbers. I wonder if human activity (icebreakers) might not mitigate that somewhat. However the species has likely survived worse winters before we were ever there to witness them, so probably can take this as well.
Next it'll be the Praying Mantis
Climate change is a HOAX. It was invented in the former Soviet Union as a means for spreading communism and discrediting capitalism. Al Gore brought the idea to America after joining the Communist Party USA back in the early 90s.
Fact is, fossil fuels are not “fossils.” They are created deep in the Earth in a process science does not understand. There is plenty of evidence that it’s a supernatural process. But I am open to the idea that it might be explainable someday.
But the undeniable truth is that coal, oil and natural gas are parts of the world as designed by God. The Almighty puts it there so that we can use it. If we reject that gift, we reject the plan God has for us.
"Hey algore, how's that for "An Inconvenient Truth"?
Look familiar?
lol
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