Because -there’s no other possible explanation- global warming must be to blame.
Eric Worrall writes: In a sign that the climate alarmist camp has not only jumped the shark, but danced an intricate ballet while taking the leap, we now have the latest sign of the end times – global warming is being blamed for a gathering of walrus.
Apparently an estimated 35,000 walrus have gathered on Alaskan beaches, allegedly because they can’t find enough ice.
In the unenlightened old days, the appearance of 35,000 walrus would have been a cause for optimism, evidence that the species was doing well. But in this age of post normal science, such an event has to be interpreted as a portent of global warming – and so, by definition, it must be spooky and bad.
According to the WWF;
“The walruses are telling us what the polar bears have told us and what many indigenous people have told us in the high Arctic, and that is that the Arctic environment is changing extremely rapidly and it is time for the rest of the world to take notice and also to take action to address the root causes of climate change.”
If only we all had the ability to listen to the Walrus, like the WWF – the world would be a very different place.
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In Norway, the communist national broadcast, NRK,s webpage – say 35 000 animals are stranded in lack of ice. I cannot even begin to explain how ridiculous that is for ANY explanation. Strongly reminds me of the swedish minister claiming the penguins caught on a floating ice sheet in the Antarctic – far from the shore, had to be rescued. WWF, of course, jumped right on board and immediately drew a parallel to the polar bears – apparently they are now (again) in a lot of trouble. NRK and WWF seem to think norwegians don’t know english and are complete morons. And, as always when it comes to climate-articles, no comments allowed.
Links in Norwegian.
http://www.nrk.no/verden/35.000-hvalrosser-strandet-1.11962887
Apparently hard to come by good estimates of population numbers, and even harder to estimate trends, according to NOAA:
http://www.fws.gov/alaska/fisheries/mmm/stock/final_pacific_walrus_sar.pdf
NOAA says they gave up aerial surveys following a workshop in 2000. Their latest publication is in 2010, with an estimate of the number of Pacific walrus only (Atlantic walrus are out of NOAA’s jurisdiction) of 129,000, but with a confidence range of 55,000-507,000. They state the estimate (from a survey in 2006) is biased low due to bad weather preventing flyovers of some areas known to harbor walrus. Historical estimates, based on hunting harvests, are around 200,000, but probably with even wider error bands.
If the temperature had a range of confidence like that you would either drop dead of heat exhaustion the moment you stepped outside or your nuts would fall off with the cold.
Just saw the same thing on CNN where they blamed this together with the dry up of the Aral Sea on global warming.
Mass gathering of walruses is a normal behavior which was also observed by Vitus Bering himself nearly 300 years ago. Nothing abnormal with that.
The Aral Sea is drying up because the rivers that feed it were dammed. No other reason.
Now we know what they can replace 2°C with.
Please post your all time favorite photograph of walruses; masses of them, or one, actually pulled out on some ice rather than on some rocky shore. No rocks please, just ice !
I´m preparing a “Save the Penguins from Climate Warming” campaign for next year, so this walrus gathering will really help the fund raising effort. Contributions can be made using the same address you used for my Drowning Islands campaign (which by the way was highly successful, we are now helping the Funafuti natives adapt to higher sea level).
george,
I’ve always liked this walrus birthday pic:
http://dontclickthis.whatingods.name/happy-bday-bucket.jpg
Ode to an Oosik http://www.briankulik.com/ode.html
mass mortality events
Maybe it’s how they cull the herd.
What’s the matter with you guys? Can’t you recognize the Walrus Consensus?
I watched hours and hours of wildlife shows in my youth (that means many years ago), and clearly remember many documentaries that showed thousands of walruses on rocky and sandy shores. They were seldom pictured on ice. They looked perfectly happy to be there on the rocks, except the females and small guys that were crushed by the bulls. There is nothing new going on up there that is abnormal.
Q. Aren’t the alarmists the least bit concerned that they will be found to be fools and charlatans if they continue to portray everything, even non-issues, as a deleterious result of global warming?
A. Not as long as the low information eco-fanatic continues to believe them.
Hopefully they’re gathering to plan a good ol fashioned alarmist ass kicking.
Quoting Lewis Carroll (1871)
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
Some kind of prophet ?
Plainly the flying pig – Porcus icarus? – will fly further, and faster, with all this CO2 flooding the atmosphere (up to about four parts in ten thousand now, I gather).
This hugely enhanced ability may keep it above the rising levels of alarmist emanations (excretio taurii confusit cerebellii might in fact apply here).
Apologies for the dog-Latin: I’m entirely, and badly, self-taught.
Mod – /sarc, I believe.
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Idiotic “news” and blame, no wonder population is hoodwinked on global warming, another species to save.
Walrus population now about double 1950s. Beach photo estimate at 35,000 is like NYC Climate March crowd over-estimates and far less, but does not matter.
Statement,” ‘It’s another remarkable sign of the dramatic environmental conditions changing as the result of sea ice loss.’…This summer, the sea ice’s annual low point was the sixth smallest since satellite monitoring began in 1979.” is nonsense for walrus.
Most of walrus habitat is Bering Strait and Chukcki Sea
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=walrus.rangemap
It is normal to have 100% summer sea ice melt in that area of Arctic in summer, 70 F days in summer normal with all light, sometimes in 80s, so thesis less sea ice by global warming forcing walrus to congregate in mass on beach instead of hanging out on disappearing summer floating ice due to warming is junk. Boats take tourists out to see walrus congregating on beach, that is normal too. There is no sea ice there in middle of summer, that is normal. Those walrus also must have been having a time two years ago when winter sea ice area in Bering Sea was at was an all time recorded high “since satellite monitoring began in 1979.”
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/recent365.anom.region.2.html
It is a shame news media has to hype things up to sell stories.
There’s a consensus all right. But it’s not about AGW. It’s about the alarmists themselves. lol
“The time has come,” the walrus said, “to speak of many things…of shoes and ships, and sealing wax…of cabbages and kings!”
“Point of order, Mr. Chairman!”
“The chair recognizes the gentleman from the Bering Sea!”
“If I am not mistaken, the subject before the assembly was…how shall I put this?…getting laid. It’s been a long, hard swim, and I, for one, am not interested in cabbage, if you get my drift!”
“Hear, hear!” “Well said, what?” “I say…capital suggestion!”
“Motion carries by acclamation! ….. Nowwwww, which of you chaps are female?”
Don’t these yahoos know that a mass gathering of walruses in Alaska is a certain sign of a major earthquake. Sometime in the next 10,000 years?
The very same Green Guardian had banner headlines proclaiming that half the world’s wild life had become extinct in the last 40 years! (WWF propaganda as it turned out.) How this ties in with unusually large gatherings of animals only the Greenpriests know…and of course, they’re not saying.
Try commenting on the Guardian where it proclaims “comment is free”.
I do. And yesterday I posted on this story.Even included a reference-
‘Kelly is a marine mammal scientist at the University of Alaska. He says that in a growing walrus population, at least 35 percent of the females should have calves with them. But the rates he saw were far less, in some places in the single digits. ‘
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/00ASJ/01.12.00_WalrusDecline.html
Rejoice, rejoice I say for they are returned.
Unfortunately it has been deleted in it’s entirety.
They love global warming
I think they are massing for an attack.
It’s as likely IMneverHO they were displaced by ‘global warmists’ occupying their recent spots.
But it’s prolly just crop rotation of the natural variety.
World Walruses First!
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/global-warming-turtles.htm
I see this snippet from Google Scholar search results. How unusual is hauling out?
Walruses spend 75% of their time in the water. They don’t have to “rest” either on the ice or ashore–(1) their blubber keeps them afloat (2) they sleep in the water:
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/walrus-sleep-without-drowing1.htm
Could someone possibly translate this walrus phrase:
koo koo k’CHOO
Eggman
brians356
October 1, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Could someone possibly translate this walrus phrase:
“koo koo k’CHOO”
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From a paper in 1980.
This is just before the satellite era sea ice extent maximum and start.