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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Climate Depot has a big special report on this nonsense:
I wonder what WWF would have thought if they had seen an aerial photo of the Woodstock festival. That humans were about to go extinct?
Good Ol’ Days …
Is it possible that underwater volcanoes could do something like this? Extra sulfur in the water in their usually favorite area, or something?
Same question for when masses of some dead fish species show up on some beach.
A simple review of the Alaskan coastline tells you that there are hundreds of kilometers of very similar beach habitat up and down from where these walruses came ashore. Common sense tells you that there is something far more complex and fascinating going on here than not finding enough sea ice to perch upon. Why did they all congregate in one spot? If they were just resting for lack of sea ice, they would have found much more convenient and less crowded locations to settle in. Unfortunately unique scientific curiosity is being dulled by those co-opting this event for their dogmatic global warming assertions.
One big communal pillow.
They congregate in these specific spots year after year because this is where they have always held their annual conventions for thousands of years and they don’t like change.
‘Steven Goddard’ points out….
Then I find this.
I repeat, during the 1970s almost every documentary I saw with walruses, it was from a haulout. I think we are being had by a sick joke.
Does that mean that the Pacific Walrus survived periods of ‘ice free‘ Arctic summers during the Holocene Hypsithermal? Should we be worried about their imminent extinction?
Killer whales?
The littoral zone is the part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore. Did you see the word “haulout”? Is this an explanation for the haulaout in the post?
The walruses are telling us what the polar bears have told us and what many indigenous people have told us in the high Arctic
Since when can poley bears and walruses speak Inuktitut?
The CBC in Canada also used it as a banner headline and comments are allowed so please comment
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/walruses-forced-ashore-en-masse-as-sea-ice-melts-1.2783672?cmp=rss
You fools, this is entirely consistent with walrus computer modelling which actually predicted this event just after it happened. The models also show there will be periods without walrus gatherings which happened elsewhere at the same time further confirming the accuracy of the models.
You are all walrus deniers
It’s just simply an Occupy Arctic walrus protest said to be organized partly by Van Jones.
Did you know that 1 percent of the walrus population owns 80 percent of the walrus wealth? It’s bloody well about time the walruses started banding together to protest.
Its just the walrus version of Burning Man 😉
Except the walruses smell better. (I live in Reno – I know.)
Don’t whales also beach themselves en mass occasionally, and have for centuries? Why do lemmings drown themselves in the sea? Animals just get fed up from time to time – is that so wrong?
The lemming mass drownings was a myth created by Disney Studios, many years ago.
Obviously, the walruses know what they are doing, and they do it for walrus reasons. Somehow the haul-out spot is selected, and communicated to the rest of the great walrus host. There are many aspects of animal behavior that remain cryptic, but there is a reason for everything, even if we can’t see it yet. No matter what Lennon may have felt in an inspired moment, no man is a walrus.
Myth Debunked: Arctic Walrus Beachings Are Nothing New
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/01/myth-debunked-arctic-walrus-beachings-are-nothing-new/
My car broke down today, overheated. We all know what caused that. That’s all the proof I need. The evidence is clear. We’re doomed. Co2 has turned our planet into a 4 slice auto eject toaster with easy to clean crumb trays and automatic width adjustment that’s been set to high. And we’re the sliced bread. Could someone please pass the butter? Oh, that jam looks good too.
Radiation-filled ocean water care of Fukushima is the real culprit. But no one wants to talk about that because there is no way to solve that problem.
Anthony, it may be very helpful to post up the map of “normal” extent of sea ice at the end of September and point out where Point Lay (where the photo was allegedly taken) is. That should put an end to this nonsense (at least for those that have 2 brain cells to rub together).
Once a year, thousands of elephant seals gather on the beach near San Simion, California. Apparently this behavior has little to do with melting ice.
They all gather in the same place on the same beach coming from a thousand kms away to “rest” (as in huge aggressive animals which are constantly fighting each other all lined up and overlapping on top of each other because of “normal” ice-melt-back which has occurred again at this time of year just like every year (covering a thousand kms of shoreline). I wouldn’t call that “rest”.
It is obviously a normal social activity for the walruses. Fall practise for spring mating season might be all a walrus needs.
Polar bears & walruses can talk, apparently…
This has nothing to do with global warming. It is scare mongering and the WWF should check its facts. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walrus
Migration
The rest of the year (late summer and fall), walruses tend to form massive aggregations of tens of thousands of individuals on rocky beaches or outcrops. The migration between the ice and the beach can be long-distance and dramatic. In late spring and summer, for example, several hundred thousand Pacific walruses migrate from the Bering Sea into the Chukchi Sea through the relatively narrow Bering Strait.[27]
27. Fay, F. H. (1982). “Ecology and Biology of the Pacific Walrus, Odobenus rosmarus divergens Illiger”. United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service.
A mass gathering of 310,000 people in New York is latest sign of global warming.
it was only ~100k marchers, they just left enough garbage so archaeologists would think they were 300k
There is only one explanation: A bunch of females searching for manmeat. Or is that manmeat searching for females searching for manmeat? What does it matter as long as babies are the result. The drive to procreate trumps global warming every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I’ll bet the picture was taken on a Sunday.
Actually, Pamela, it’s the only spot on the coast with good cell phone reception, hence the large numbers of females and juvenile walruses. 🙂
They very well could be starving due to man’s over exploitation of the oceans for fish. But that has zero to do with the magic gas of oil and gas combustion.
If an estimated 35,000 walrus had not gathered on Alaskan beaches, it would also be caused by Gorebal Warming
Didn’t they used to show these kind of things is Disney shorts 50 or so years ago. I’m sure that I as brought up with the idea that at a certain time of year seals, sea lions and walruses gather on beaches in huge numbers. My reaction to the news was, “Yes, they do that” anyway.
Maybe I’d forgotten that they were being boiled by this huge rise in temperatures way down in the depths of the sea that we’re told to believe in.
Polar bear diverged from brown bear around a million years ago and have survived numerous warming periods since. So have walrus.