From the Hansen/Gore/Trenberth/Branson fact finding trip
Declining ice has meant declining penguin numbers in Antarctica
Our top climate experts are unaware that Antarctic sea ice has been increasing over the last 30 years.
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Lol, no doubt….. and I guess they think we forgot that the researchers are the ones that caused the decline in populations…..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/12/tagging-penguins-survival-rates
According to quantum mechanics, it is the observations that are causing the decline.
To many eco-do-goodiers trying to make sure they tag and look after each and every penguin, interfering with them raising their young…now there is the real problem…
I think that the actual real problem is that the other penguins do not like the tags and so will not mate with the tagged penguins.
The tags are a profound violation of the freedom of penguin-kind.
The “decline” in Antarctic Ice must again reflect Hansen’s “expert” adjustments and extrapolations in areas where there is no data or data unfavorable to the alarmist’s predetermined conclusions.
Well, shutting down for a while, have to go and shovel off some global warming that arrived last night during the “hot temps” we are enduring…you know, when its warmer, more moisture, snow…thing of the past….
Snow in Alberta? Being a thing from the past, it can’t be!
There, one neighbor (who’s in florida), single mom next door, and mine done…3 good deeds done. Thing of the past my a**….
Penguins decline was explained back in August 16, 2010 by Notional Geographic
where they show a leopard seal at rest on Antarctic sea ice between penguin-hunting forays.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100816-global-warming-antarctica-sea-ice-paradox-science-environment/
Increasing sea ice would directly corrolate to declining penguin populations (along with tagging and other well-intentioned colony disturbance), since the more ice there is for the penguins to cross to get back and forth to their feeding grounds, the less energy they have to forage and return to feed to their chicks. One would think that LESS ice would be considered A Good Thing™ in the Glow Bull Wormers’ Holy Handbook on Penguin Ecology. You just can’t win with these charlatans, frauds and liars.
I’m pretty sure the Glapagos is infested with pengies, which makes sense, because those islands are simple innundated with ice.
Hansen/Gore/Trenberth/Branson fact finding trip
Some typo surely – fact finding?
The blind leading bad, mad, and sad.
Penguin, Krill Populations in Freefall
As Antarctic temperatures warm, the penguins’ main food source is plummeting.
“Numbers of Chinstrap and Adélie penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula region have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last 30 years, driven mainly by dramatic declines in supplies of tiny, shrimp-like krill, their main prey, says a new study.
Krill, meanwhile, have declined by 40 to 80 percent, due primarily to rapidly warming temperatures in the area — the South Shetland Islands near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby sites.”
http://news.discovery.com/animals/chinstrap-adelie-penguins-krill-110411.html
I see they dont mention the HUGE market for Krill oil ever either:-)
theres one hell of a lot of it being harvested for the supplement markets globally.
re the penguins..some years back too much ice or a colliding berg? was blocking a big colonies access to the sea. big news item at the time in Aus.
“Chinstrap penguins breed mainly on the Antarctic Peninsula and on islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. There is a small breeding population on the Balleny Islands, south of New Zealand.
Chinstrap penguins are the second most abundant penguin species in the Antarctic and subantarctic regions”
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/fact-files/animals/penguins/chinstrap-penguins
In terms of this penguin species we should look at changes specifically around the antarctic peninsula, which are not necessarily the same changes as across Antarctica as a whole.
Bob, from your link, here’s a wonderful quote that may just blow the alarmists’ argument straight out of the ice-choked waters:
I don’t even play a climate scientist or a penguin biologist on TV, but I DID sleep at a Holiday Inn Express ® one time.
“Hansen/Gore/Trenberth/Branson fact finding trip”
Oh they are still looking for one then.
Whatever this junket may be about, it’s not fact-finding. Mr. Gore and the others decided what the facts are long ago.
Keep in mind UNFCCC Chief Christiana Figueres appears to have wrote that. Figueres is a career bureaucrat with a degree in Social Anthropology, which is sort of like have an English major but not as scientifically rigorous.
Actually, CO2 has caused penguins to shrink in size.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46545505/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T0vpgvFKRLc
Oh man, that article . . . what do you say?
“New Zealand was once home to the tallest penguin species ever known — a lanky bird that stood as high as 4.2 feet (1.3 meters).”
“For example, today’s common Emperor penguins average 44 inches high (1.15 meters) in height.”
Gah! (& I’m not even going to bring up the ridiculous mingling of significant digits & decimal feet vs. inches)
sudden dramatic Rise in antarctic temps!!!!
when the Argentinians base went up in smoke..about 10 to 14 days ago
all that pollution carbon heat and and and…
amazing how little press that event got?