Posted on 01/16/2020 9:09:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Elephant Island, Antarctica - A new U.S. government report found the last decade was the hottest ever recorded on Earth, and 2019 was the second hottest year ever measured. The data has raised new concerns, and one of the places most seriously affected is Antarctica, at the bottom of the planet.
CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi traveled with a group of scientists working to determine how the warming weather is affecting one particular species; the chinstrap penguin.
Few humans have ever set foot on the remote, rocky shores of Elephant Island. It took Saberi and her team three days of sailing and clambering across rubber rafts with environmental activists from Greenpeace to get there.
Then the penguin counting commenced. So, why count penguins?
"They come back to the same place to nest every year, which means we can really keep tabs on their populations," explains Alex Borowicz, a researcher at Stony Brook University. "By observing penguins and trying to figure out what makes their populations work, we can get an idea of the health of this whole area."
The scientists from Stony Brook and Northeastern Universities count each member of the chaotic colony on foot, using mechanical clickers, and scan them from above with high-tech drones. They want to know if the population of chinstrap penguins is dwindling on Elephant Island, as it is elsewhere in the region.
The researchers are traveling on Greenpeace ships from island to island across the Antarctic Peninsula, comparing different penguin populations to see how the animals are adapting to climate change. While it looks frigid, it is one of the fastest warming areas on Earth.
"When we see climate change impacting things down here, glacial melt, warming oceans, more acidic oceans," says Borowicz. "Penguins do really interact with all of those things."
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Sharks and sea lions...........
BS. The idiots claimed that the glaciers would be gone in GNP. They were wrong, they lied, and they lose. No more BS.
...And in Calgary this week, for the first time EVER, the zoo had to deprive the penguins of their daily walk because of RECORD COLD.
Coming to the New York Times, CNN, etc. in 3... 2... 1....
>> with high-tech drones
The low-tech drones kept crashing.
These same groups have lobbied for the protection of sharks. Could there be a link?
Once upon a time, environmental activists claimed that they wanted to save the planet for the children. Now they want to save the planet from the children.
It was 14 below this morning in Minneapolistan. I could use some global warming.
> the last decade was the hottest ever recorded on Earth, and 2019 was the second hottest year ever measured <
Every measurement must include an estimate of uncertainty (a +/-). And these estimates are not just guesses. They can be calculated.
But you NEVER see such estimates included in any “global warming” study. And that’s a critical omission. For example, let’s say a study shows that the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean has risen by one degree. Because we’re measuring such a huge thing here, the +/- might be two degrees, or more.
Such a +/- would make the original one degree measurement meaningless. Heck, the ocean’s temperature might actually be falling!
Just like the ever-dwindling polar bear population ...
As I understand it, the scientific vote for who or what caused this decrease in the population of penguins was very close.
Global Warming beat out Trump by 53% to 46%. 1% made a different choice probably because they don’t watch enough CNN or MSNBC.
Discovering the causes of events like this is so much easier than it would have been in the past. No actual evidence of cause and effect is needed so no investigation is required.
I did a similar poll and discovered that I was corrent 97% of the time. What a system.
[[Global warming cited as Antarctica’s chinstrap penguin population drops by half]]
About time- i hate those freakin things! Crappin everywhere- stinkin up the neighborhood, polluting the oceans with their poo- regurgitating all over the place- Filthy birds-
Clean up the world, support global warming!
That shows bias, right from the start.
If the study was done by Exxon, it might have credibility.
Baby plankton most affected!
Great collection, GrampaDave. Great collection. Great post.
From Wikipedia;
“They breed in Antarctica, Argentina, Bouvet Island, Chile, the Falkland Islands, the French Southern Territories, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Vagrant individuals have been found in New Zealand, the islands of Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha, and South Africa.
It could be that overall numbers are up in these other
locations.
Save the penguins!!
Maybe like the Snowflakes here in the US half of them are turning gay/trans/non-sexual?-)
Which means... what? Since when?
How long have temps down to hundredths of a degree Celsius, been measured at hundreds or thousands of stations on all seven continents?
Refer to SOURCE for the details of what the following means:
Of the four global datasets, the one that stretches back the furthest only goes to 1850 (and only had a handful of temp stations back then.). Of the four sets, only one (HadCRUT4, from the U.K.) leaves regions with missing data blank, rather than try to fill them in. This means the rest of them fill in the gaps with fabricated data based on proxies (e.g. tree rings) which don't perfectly correlate with temps, and sheer guesstimates about what the temps "ought to have been."
Lower troposphere temperatures (10 km out) are different from cycles of surface temps, and the two systems (surface and tropospheric) interact on cycles known to be decadal, century-long and, of course, even longer scale. And unlike the surface temperature record, tropospheric temperatures only extend back to the start of the satellite era in 1979.
Think of that. 1979.
So "recorded," "measured" global temperatures that are the "hottest in history" may refer back to--- 40 years ago.
Sam, thanks.
I’m 81 and we have been hearing this death of the world bs for over half of my years.
Zero of their dire predictions have come true.
Zero of their dire predictions have come true.
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yup
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