The Emperor Penguin Extinction Scam & Sea Ice Dynamics
Despite climate model predictions that Emperor Penguins face imminent extinction due to rising CO2, observations and scientific evidence reveal Emperors are thriving and increasing, as sea ice and Antarctic temperatures are behaving the opposite of model predictions
Jim Steele is Director emeritus of San Francisco State University’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus, authored Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism, and proud member of CO2 Coalition
Another case of the Emperor’s new clothes?
I’ll get my own coat thanks.
Penguins and polar bears seem to have survived the many warm periods in the past without going extinct. Maybe they can survive more than one type of weather.
Despite the fact that Antarctica is cooling, not warming.
2 degrees C since 1979.
It is too bad we can’t speak with these birds. They have been around a very long time and would have wonderful stories of how some years there was more ice and other years less and so what!
I had an opportunity to do that, not with penguins but with my grand-aunt and grand-uncles who lived near the northern border of Portugal: some years with more snow, some years with less, some years with none… They all died about 30 years ago of old age, not of “climate change”.
What a great opportunity to preserve some of the history of the country.
We in Portugal have good met data Pamela, we do not need to rely on the memories of older people! The question is, we do not have an insurance against some government ordering to mess them with a “nomogenization” and destroy the original archives to free space… The archives of the research station where I worked all my life are lost (created in 1936; I was admitted in 1973; it was extinguished after I left, around 2005). With it was gone a great deal of the history of the evolution of Portuguese agronomy. Every scientific institution of this country has the same risk.
Another triumph of narrative over science for the media and as per usual, no corrections are ever made – even if a paper is retracted or withdrawn.
My all time favourite penguin scare came from the illustrious Chris Turney – emeritus professor of ignorance at UNSW
“Penguins Don’t Migrate, they’re dying”
The polar bears eat them.
Yes, that was my first guess, too. [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] climate cooling… warming… change is a first-order forcing of [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] immigration reform in endangered populations. The bears are opportunistic anti-vegans who follow the meat products.
South pole, dude
Dark humor is like food under Stalin – not everyone gets it.
The rest of the story is that while in Antarctica Turney wept when he came across thousands of dead chicks which he assumed had died because if global warming. Previous visiting scientists had sampled the chicks and found them to have died over a period of several hundreds of years! Their are no predators and the birds had been freeze dried!
Sorry, don’t recall the link.
No problem.
They will pull Attenborough out of their butts
and he will make them go extinct twice in a single documentary.
Maybe he can push some of them into the abyss of his previous documentary that killed all the walrussians as result of extinct polar bear attac…global warming,
to make it loik more convincing and spectacular.
Sabaton have their song “Attack of the dead men” – maybe they should follow it up with “Attack of the extinct polar bears”
https://youtu.be/-AFdwoyNT24
Some things are done better
Spotify – Sewn in a Dream
Warning – Contains Thin Ice
I’ve seen the movie “the return of the luvin dead”
“…Emperor Penguins face imminent extinction”
Who is saying this?
Who hasn’t been saying it?
“Emperor penguins at risk of extinction, scientists warn” – The Guardian
These people if you call 2100 imminent
Does the U.S. Endangered Species Act apply outside of the United States? Who is going to enforce it in Antarctica? As an American, I would hate to think we’re engaging in wildlife imperialism!
If you listen to the video it tells you. Try listening.
She is too busy flapping her gums to listen to anything or anyone
Loydo never listens, to anything.
The voice of its master in its head.
Your answer is in the video that forms the basis of this post.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15806
Stephanie Jenouvrier.
Are you getting your knickers in a twist over the word “imminent”, ok let’s use their wording “threats within the foreseeable future”, is that better?
They also say “The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is an iconic species threatened by climate change”, that is just not true.
The study basically admits they don’t know shit, but they’ll take the hottest model RCP 8.5 and throw it at the penguins and see what sort of alarmist stink we can make to freak everybody out, get the media frothing at the mouth, and get the bucks rolling in.
Rinse and repeat, Scientism.
Your mob are saying it. Look it up.
LOL. Desperate to deflect Loydo?? Try watching the video. Its spelled out so that even a total idiot would know who is propagandizing the extinction
“who is saying this”?
Uh, all of your usual climate scientologists.
School assignment for Friday for Loydo.
Google “emperor penguins extinction”.
Report back with all the hits, there are a lot.
Please list alphabetically and by date.
That took me 3 seconds Loydo.
That shut you up didn’t it Loydo!
It is all lies, climate is just fine, animals are just fine, humans are just fine. Hell, their big headline yesterday was about Ivory Billed Woodpeckers being extinct. Well they claimed this before and no one listened. Why, because they can not prove the birds are extinct, all they can do is claim it. Lies, nothing but lies. Where is their actual, physical, 100% irrefutable proof of any of these claims? They have none and they never will. Nothing but lies.
The animals are fine until they try to cuff them.
You put the cuffs on the Polar Bear, I’ll stand over here and watch. 😉
A few years ago there were some reports of Ivory Billed Woodpeckers calling in the Atchafalaya. The call is very distinctive apparently. It would be nice if they were still extant, that is one big and impenetrable swamp, no telling what is hiding in there.
I know people involved in the recent search for Ivory-billed Woodpecker. John “Fitz” Fitzpatrick the director of Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology pushed the search for the extinct woodpecker as a fundraising tactic despite many serious ornithologists objecting. Fitz didn’t like the recent extinct designation because he wants people to keep looking
It couldn’t hurt to keep one’s ears open for the distinctive calls.
Of course. With the ever-growing number of birders and citizen scientists, if it is still alive someone will see it.
My problem with Fitz is he has politicized birding with dubious science for the sake of funding ploys
I wrote about his efforts in Peru, in Elevator to Extinction Myths
https://perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-escalator-to-extinction-myth.html
There might be enough viable DNA in musem specimens to resurrect the ivory-billed and imperial woodpeckers, using egg cells from other species in their genus. The mitochndrial DNA would be different, but otherwise the birds would be members of the probably extinct species.
A Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker was sighted in 1987., which observation is well supported.
I don’t know if their call is instinctive or (most likely) learned, but recordings of it could be played. However, other behaviors it would have to learn from related species, whose calls hatchlings would also hear.
The size difference between extant auk species and great auks might present surrogacy problems, but IMO it’s worth a try to bring back great auks. Also Carolina parakeets and passenger pigeons.
Probably not enough material for Caribbean monk seals.
When I was a teenager we hunted and crawfished in sections of Atchafalaya, still have family scattered from Houma to Dulac and west to Texas line. Lots a of things in there ain’t been seen in a long time.
You done be did it now! Sitting here jonesing for hot crawdads and cold beer. I’d settle for shrimp even. 😉
Hmmm…. maybe all those doom and gloom “scientists” ought to see what’s really going on with the penguins:
Good skeptical review of the warmunists’ claims. Essentially, it comes down to cherry picking for the purpose of promoting a narrative, rather than a thoughtful overall assessment of the species entire population.
A similar kind of scam could be the following:
Study the population dynamics of small towns in America. Show that small towns are losing population to medium and larger cities (which has in fact been the story in America for the last century). Except leave out the part that only small towns were studied, instead of the entire US population. Ipso facto, the human race in America is endangered and about to disappear!
The same trick could be repeated and come to diametrically opposite conclusions and false premises. Study the total population trends of the entire US, see that the population is growing, but fail to mention that the study did not address the population trends in specific sized cities or regions. Then declare that the population of small towns is increasing rapidly – which would of course be entirely false.
That’s what these warmunist researchers are doing. Cherry pick data, then proclaim falsely that global trends are proven by the cherry picked data.
Reminds me of the ancient Indian parable of the three blind men and an elephant:
I heard that story years ago as the 3 flies and the elephant – same parable though.
I recommend a small inexpensive book to everyone: How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff, It is old, 1950s, so multiply U.S. dollar amounts by ten or twenty. It seems the warmists are using it as a text book, rather than using it to avoid false and misleading methods.
They can join the World Walrus Foundation (WWF), a joint project of walruses and seals that are threatened by climate climate change and resurgent polar bear populations. Perhaps other species that have declared endangered or extinct, then rediscovered in silent springs and reported in darkness.
Come on! This is not news nor original!
Everyone knows that there are more penguins because there are less polar bears eating them!…
Joao, thanks for the best laugh I’ve had in a long time!!
You are welcome! Laughing is good for health!
Is it too late to save the Antarctic polar bears?
My understanding is they are dying from CO2 and diabetes; the CO2 and all that sugar in the Coke they drink.
It’s True! I saw it on TV.
Sorry – polar bears never lived in Antarctica … they’re actually arctic bears, not polar bears.
But, but, but… I saw them sharing their Cokes with penguins.
My Videos must be worrying the alarmists media. Twitter and Facebook have again blocked me. Although the blocks have only been temporary so far, it appears to be a threat of what’s to come if I dont join the Groupthink. What’s interesting is both Twit and FB block me at the same time. Combined with LinkedIn banning skeptics, Youtube altering the number of views and LIkes, Twitter removing some of my Followers, and the efforts of Steyer and Stacy Abrams trying to get the Coalition banned from Facebook, and identical alarmist headlines throughout the media, there is strong evidence of an orchestrated effort to only give the public one alarmist view to keep the public fearful!
Jim, I suggest that perhaps you are now beginning to know what being Winston Smith from Orwell’s “Nineteen-Eighty-four” must have been like.
According to what I’ve heard, legislation in Washington to make the social media outlets public utilities would prohibit them from censoring and blocking points of view that the Facebook and Twitter hierarchy don’t like. Don’t know if we’ll ever see it though as long as Biden is in office.
Wikipedia’s write-up on the subject…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_public_utility
“Social media as a public utility is a theory postulating that social networking sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat etc.) are essential public services that should be regulated by the government, in a manner similar to how electric and phone utilities are typically government regulated. It is based on the notion that social media platforms have monopoly power and broad social influence.[1]“
Great video, Thanks! I more than enjoyed it.
I did a quick google of individuals who claim penguins are going extinct and I would say there is little critical thought in any quick info I read. Yet, it is hard to understand why an expensive education is used to over-simplify, misrepresent, and deceive while attempting to blend their own scientific research around a political or popular narrative. I am glad many people are incapable of casting skepticism aside.