This is the Scary Story Of The Day. Lots of Leftist news outlets have jumped all over it as a way of scaring people about how bad living a modern lifestyle is, and penguins, and especially penguin chicks, are quite a bit more visually friendly than a polar bear hunting and killing seals in a spray of blood
(NY Times) Life has never been easy for just-hatched Magellanic penguins, but climate change is making it worse, according to a decades-long study of the largest breeding colony of the birds.
The chicks are already vulnerable to predation and starvation. Now, the study at Punta Tombo, Argentina, found that intense storms and warmer temperatures are increasingly taking a toll.
“Rainfall is killing a lot of penguins, and so is heat,†said P. Dee Boersma, a University of Washington scientist and lead author of the study. “And those are two new causes.â€
What you’re supposed to take away from the Times’ article, and all the others, is that Mankind is increasingly killing the penguin chicks through our use of fossil fuels, hairspray, taking a shower longer than 2 minutes, using more than 2 sheets of toilet paper, having an ice maker in our fridge, refusing to keep our in-home heating at 60F or below, and not giving Government more and more of our hard earned money and more of our freedom.
The paper itself never Blames Mankind, yet one has to wonder about the constant inclusion of the non-scientific and totally political phrase “climate change”. The climate always changes. How did the chicks do when the atmosphere was much cooler, such as during the Little Ice Age and Dark Ages? Or during the last glacial? Or how about during the previous warm periods during the Holocene, many of which were much warmer than today? Know what happens? Life adapts. That’s a major component of Darwinism, which Warmists seem to be throwing overboard in the rush to use “climate change” for political purposes.
Furthermore, the paper mentions “climate models” going out to the end of the century. Yet, the vast majority of climate models have so far failed. But, hey, photos of cute penguin chicks, and dead penguin chicks, is designed to tug at the heartstrings and get them to “spread awareness”.
And there’s lots more at Watts Up With That? noting all the statistics and computer models and wishful thinking.
