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Climate change increasing penguin chick mortality in Argentina, says report
Penguin-chick mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina, a trend scientists attribute to climate change and expect to worsen throughout the century, a new study finds. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCaused by the increase in hot air eminating from the casa rosada, no doubt.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 06:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0So, first she kills the economy, now the baby penguins. Evillllll!!
Probably eaten by the starving argies
Jan 31st, 2014 - 08:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe the decline is due to Argentine over fishing of the fish the penguins need to feed their chicks? Makes sense, if there is no food for the chicks they will die. Thanks Christina.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is more non-science, less than 7% of storms resulted in chick deaths, yet they make the leap to “Climate Change is increasing Penguin chick mortality”
Jan 31st, 2014 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Of the 233 storms that occurred over the course of the study period, only 16 resulted in chick deaths.”
But computer models say this isn't good enough and more will die!
“Still, the researchers pointed out that the types of heavy storms that did result in mortalities are projected to become more frequent, with some climate models predicting an increase in extreme precipitation in the Southern Hemisphere summer by 40 to 70 percent between 2076 and 2100, compared with that seen between 1951 and 1976.”
Still, as consultants, they were being paid, so they had to come up with what the client wanted.
the penguins have probably had enough and have moved for some peace and security in the Falklands.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can't prove anything so blame the climate.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am so sick of hearing about mythical climate change. It's been happing for BILLIONS OF years. It will continue to happen,
Adapt or die.
we thinks the penguins
Jan 31st, 2014 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0should demand independence,
and rule themselves...lol
Adapt or die ... or migrate.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yup, the central belt of states of the Union will become unpopulated as the millions of red-necks 'adapt' by migrating to the coastal states.
Why should they stay in those ever more unhospitable lands - twister-lands and deserts, fit only for Vegas and native reservations?
It's only a matter of time for Vegas and the reservations to re-locate to the coasts also. It's a Big Country, even when everybody squashes up along the coasts.
Imagine everything East of the Sierras and West of the Appalachians being unfarmable when the Mississippi basin dries out.
Just imagine ... Steinbeck could write novels about it!
Yup, I know it's 'just nature'
... but is this the 'adapt or die' you are recommending?
The scale of change might be just too large for even the USA.
But it may happen over generations - centuries, even.
“Well, that's all right then.”
8. Liberal screeching at its best. Global warming! Global Warming! Er it hasn't warmed in a decade, okay Climate Change! Climate Change!
Jan 31st, 2014 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The midwest went through a dust bowl before, we survived, actually THRIVED, if it happens again we'll be fine.
BTW I would love the midwesterners to come to the East Coast. They are nice and hardworking people.
Las Vegas, I could care less if it becomes empty desert again. I don't think people should live in the desert. It's their own fault if they have to move.
lol - #3 actually blamed Cristina.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh mercopravda.
@10 Irrespective of its soviet overtones, it might be worth remembering that “pravda” actually means “truth”.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So its true Cristina has increased penguin chick mortality ?
Jan 31st, 2014 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lol.
@8 and 9
Jan 31st, 2014 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't dismiss the desert, she is a frigid woman of great wealth.
You must learn to love her to unlock her secrets.
A trend scientists attribute to climate change
Jan 31st, 2014 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently our scientists think by reducing speed on the M1
Will help with the climate change,
So perhaps if the penguins went about more slowly,
It would help them as well,
Still,
What do scientist know ..lol
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Probably all the waste Argentina pumps out into the sea.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being a third world country, they dont understand about conservation, after all they have only just learnt not to chuck their own people out of planes over the sea
Nah all the worlds pollution is in Gibraltars waters.
Jan 31st, 2014 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chronically polluted according to greenpeace.
if the penguins have any brains they will emigrate to get away from the bird brain that runs the Argentina.
Feb 01st, 2014 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0nothing to see here.
Feb 01st, 2014 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0move on
“move on”...?
Feb 01st, 2014 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what stupid comments posted by the uk team....
but,
she cannot stop them...
jijiji
yes
Feb 01st, 2014 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she cannot stop the uk team lol
far to good.
@15
Feb 02nd, 2014 - 05:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hey, we still have forests. Do you?
We still have the right whale? Do you?
We still have the Jaguar. Do you have the Warrah.
Anglos talking about conservation, that's our joke of the day.
We still have the right whale? Do you?
Feb 02nd, 2014 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0[ we have wales ] lolol.
I'm thinking about when weather events can be considered to be a climate change.
Feb 02nd, 2014 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0perhaps when a major US city becomes uninhabitable?
perhaps when a succession of tornados, cyclones, tsunamis, etc overwhelm major Western cities in a succession of years?
perhaps when the world's glaciers disappear?
or perhaps only when the Greenland and Antarctica land ice-masses become marine?
Because - as sure as hell - third world desertification, annual melting of the Arctic Ocean, aint gonna do it!
Or - closer to home - when the 'deny-ers' personal homes and families are destroyed.
Climate change is - most of the time - a slow, insidious and cumulative thing; a thing obeying the rules of the 'Boiled Frog Theory'.
We can all deny it is happening when each individual generation (35 years) survives largely intact - you know, a few million displaced here, a few million die there, distant/unknown regions become 'uninhabitable'. There will always be local extinctions of varieties - even whole species will disappear; and we can expound that these extinctions are not-climate-related.
But there is no commonly accepted agreement about
i. how much change
ii. the rate of change
constitutes a 'Climate Change'.
The truth is, we ALL know these things are happening.
What we don't agree on is 'when the kissing has to stop',
because we as individuals and different nation states all have different criteria about what we value,what we are prepared to put up with, and what we expect others to suffer
... and so, different mental benchmarks about anthropogenic input into Climate Change.
But we ARE experiencing the time NOW when death and destruction of life, habitats and property are being experienced in so many places and with such frequency that we must heed Browning “What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
I know I COULD live on an Earth looking like the surface of Mars ... but the soul of humanity would have been lost along the way.
“Why did they do it . . . ”
#23
Feb 03rd, 2014 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Succinctly put ! People don't like to hear the truth. It's more comfortable thinking
that our lifestyles have no effect on climate change.
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-clever-senator-smack-down-deniers-with-his-extraordinary-commentary?c=upw1
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