Penguins and global warming - December 11, 2007
It seems obvious that penguins will be in trouble if global warming continues. If you like it cold and icy then a hotter planet is not going to work in your favour.
A new report from environmental group WWF highlights the problems the dinner-jacketed birds face. “As the ice melts, these icons of the Antarctic will have to face an extremely tough battle to survive,” says Emily Lewis-Brown, Marine and Climate Change Officer at WWF-UK (press release).
WWF says overfishing and a reduction in sea ice is putting the Emperor, Gentoo, Chinstrap, and Adélie penguins under pressure. The report is actually just a two page document timed to coincide with Bali and it has long been known that penguins have, in the words of 2001 paper published in Nature, “potential high susceptibility to climate change”.
No new science then, still it’s a good time and a good peg, and it is getting coverage, along with two men dressed as penguins in Bali who danced around to the song “Hot, Hot, Hot”.
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Image: Adelie penguin from a photo by Michael Van Woert, NOAA NESDIS, ORA
Comments
i loved this it was good but u need more photos of the penguins.
Posted by: osa glass | April 23, 2008 07:59 PM