Galapagos penguin numbers recovering with shifts in trade winds and ocean currents

Wednesday, August 5th 2015 - 08:13 UTC

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Shifts in trade winds and ocean currents powered a resurgence of endangered Galapagos Penguins over the past 30 years, according to a new study led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). These changes enlarged a cold pool of water the penguins rely on for food and breeding-an expansion that could continue as the climate changes over the coming decades, according to the study. Read full article

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ilsen
I like penguins. Cute and harmless. Just wish to live in peace.
The should get the SA chair at the UN. They talk more sense than any of the recent incumbents.
Aug 06th, 2015 - 02:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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DennisA
“possibly due to climate change and natural variability” Spot the difference.

“Climate change could further shift wind patterns and ocean currents” Or natural variability could.

“They found that the cold pool, where sea surface temperatures are below 22 degrees Celsius, expanded 35 kilometers farther north than where it was located at the beginning of the study period. ”

So sea surface temperatures are decreasing, not increasing due to global warming.

“Karnauskas notes that the vast majority of marine organisms will be negatively affected by the rise in ocean temperatures and acidification that are expected to occur across the globe as a result of climate change.”

But he just told us that temperatures are getting colder.

“expected to occur ?”

Ocean acidification is another baseless scare as the climate fails to respond as claimed, to increasing CO2 levels. The oceans are not becoming acidic and will not do so.
Aug 06th, 2015 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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paulcedron II
1 asshole
“I like penguins. Cute and harmless. Just wish to live in peace. ”

and yet YOU lot have massacred 5 millions of them in just 20 years, uh???
you hypocrite isleteer you
Aug 06th, 2015 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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