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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I put a post on the Business Insider’s beat up of this walrus gathering … comprising a link to the rebuttal at Climate Depot and Dr. Susan Crockford’s comments: Mass haulouts of Pacific walrus and stampede deaths are not new, not due to low ice cover – ‘The attempts by WWF and others to link this event to global warming is self-serving nonsense that has nothing to do with science…this is blatant nonsense and those who support or encourage this interpretation are misinforming the public.’
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What a bunch a lying deceitful bastardjas.
Maybe they gathered to join the people’s march against climate change. Just got there a bit late.
Walruses behaving like warmists ?
Back in the eighteenth century, until they were hunted out, there was a mass haulout of walrus on Block Island, off Nova Scotia, on the same latitude as Portland, Maine.
Must have been terrible global warming to cause that. Makes one wonder why yankees didn’t grow their own tea rather than causing that big bother in Boston harbor.
More seriously. Yes, wakrus do haul out mostly on land, not on sea-ice. The haul-out sites are very traditional and are often used for many generations.
And yes mass haulouts are sensitive to disturbance, though not extremely sensitive. If you are quiet, move slowly and against the wind you can approach very close without disturbing the animals. Walrus have a keen sense of smell but not have very good sight or hearing on land.
And no, walrus are not truly arctic animals dependent on ice cover. The do not occur in high-arctic areas (Northern Greenland, Sverdrup archipelago, central Siberian Coast, Severnaya Zemlya) and before they were hunted out at least in the Atlantic they occurred and bred in areas that never have sea-ice (Finnmark coast in Norway, Sable Island off Nova Scotia, (I wrote Block Island by mistake in an earlier post)).
The walrus are naked, but I can’t read their demands they have written on their chests. Anyone got a better photo?
Sex? I always understood these gatherings to be about meeting a partner, mating and propagating the species. How many months to maximum food time next year?
It’s odd that suddenly we turn to walrus haulouts as a proxy for sea ice extent, when we have satellites that tell us much more precisely what’s going on. Could it be that the satellites aren’t supporting the alarming narrative at the moment?
I am the walrus
It is easy to be dismissive of this story, and chuckle, but literally seconds ago, this story was reported on the local morning TV news in my Gulf Coast sound as evidence that global warming caused the sea ice to retreat north. The watermelons are active this fall…
Oops, Gulf Coast town…
Enough already.
For the sake of simplification, maybe the IPCC should just come out with this one sentence statement.
Everything that ever happens anywhere for any reason at any time is caused by global warming and it is all bad.
There it’s done, the simplicity is genius, and media bandwidth can be cleared of superfluous noise.
Looks like a very healthy population to me…
Me thinks that at least one (1) time each year ….. Walruses prefer solid ground underneath them simply because the “humping” of a female by a rambunctious 2 ½ ton male would surely cause a “break through” in their sexual activity if attempted to consummate said on “thin ice”.
“HA”, and 35,000 Walruses all huddled up in a bunch on top of surface ice ….. would surely sink their plans of a “love boat”.
Actually, in the really unenlightened old days the appearance of 35,000 walrus would be the signal for a massive hunt to harvest all that ivory and meat. This sort of makes large walrus gatherings a self-correcting problem.
I would suspect masses of walruses would provide food for polar bears — at least the weak/old/baby walruses. Even polar bears are challenged by the size and strength of walruses.
No ice required.
Um, per the wiki they have been recovering population:
“During the 19th century and the early 20th century, walruses were widely hunted and killed for their blubber, walrus ivory, and meat. The population of walruses dropped rapidly all around the Arctic region. Their population has rebounded somewhat since then”
with a 20 to 30 year lifespan, it seems likely to me that we are simply seeing the result of guns and hunting being vilified in about 1970 ….
So lack of hunting and population explosion / recovery is a bad thing? Eh?
First we has global warming, then it was climate change. Then climate disruption.
Now we have global walrussing.
At least one thing stays the same – it’s worse than we thought.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/10/01/media-hyped-walrus-climate-scare-stories-debunked-claims-reclycled-year-after-year-a-climate-depot-rebuttal/
Actually , there was a report that John Lennon was seen on that Alaskan beach, and …
Walrus have apparently been gathering on land to rest and shed their skin for decades. Not an AGW phenomenon at all.
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/01ASJ/04.06.01walrus.html
Here’s current sea ice extent with the “normal” line: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_bm_extent_hires.png
As you can see, there is normally no ice in the Chukchi Sea or anywhere near Point Lay this time of year.
This morning on our main TV news broadcast in Holland the familiar “unprecedented, due to ice loss, scientists say cause is climate change”.
I did contact them by email and gave some extra info and indicated they’re probably not aware they are making fools of themselves with such sloppy politicized info. Well, I guess I was not the only one reacting. Because, lo and behold, this evening although at first more or less the same story, they added: “On the other hand, scientist from the University of Groningen have the opinion this large number of walruses may indicate the walruses are doing fine.”
Wow. There is still hope reason may prevail at last.
Global warming? They’re huddled together because it’s freakin’ cold!
They are gathering to take advantage of the climate refugee program of the UN. I’ve heard they are going to Florida.
Gee, I hope they had their gas masks on when they were speaking to the Walrus. I have been with 2 walrus in New Zealand and that stank to high heaven.