Bipolar Penguins: Thriving on Tuesday, Dying on Wednesday, Climate Change Blamed for Both

Apparently, Antarctica's penguins have developed a remarkable new condition: whatever happens to them, the diagnosis is always the same. There must be something in the Antarctic water, because in the space of roughly 24 hours, two major news organizations delivered dramatically different reports about the fortunes of Antarctica's penguins. The BBC informed readers that gentoo penguins are flourishing with climate change, while CBS News reported that an iconic penguin colony had suffered a popula...

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2 Comments

Edward Katz

October 8, 2026 2:30 pm

News of climate change, if it can be called that, has to be examined to determine its source. If it’s from the mainstream media, it’s almost guaranteed to have been exaggerated to accentuate the bad features and attribute it to excess fossil fuel use. So no one should get too perturbed about such stories because they’re usually exaggerated, blown out of proportion, or pose much less of a threat to humanity than the alarmists faction would like us to believe. The contradictions in the above article are typical examples.