exactly - but the deniers will twist that to say that the penguins are freezing to death, so let's warm things up a bit
You always give me a laugh as you think outside the square!
A strange and sad event to be sure. But this shows the delusional leaps of logic that people are making.
* One weather event does not prove or disprove anything.
* There may have been incidences of precisely the same thing in the last 10,000 years that humans haven't been on the continent to observe.
* It may never happen again, or at least infrequently enough to have no long term effect
Yet "they", in a most unscientific leap of faith, will have the penguins extinct in ten years in order to sensationalize the story.
That's intellectual dishonesty of the most disgraceful variety and I thought you as a teacher would have seen right through it. Very bad show.
Your belligerence is conducive to fostering a more interactive thread!
Yes. The science teacher in me demands evidence and not just presumptions and hypothesizing.
The Antarctic is 98% ice and is considered a desert because of the lack of precipitation.
Your comments came before my #1088 post.
The link I quoted also said:
In the past five years, torrential rains have become increasingly common there. We saw Adelie penguin chicks shivering during nearly six days of continuous storms.
If it had been snow, like in the old days, their down would be perfectly equipped to cope. But they can’t take rain. It’s like wearing a down jacket that gets soaking wet.
At night, the temperature would dip and the next morning we’d find them dead from hypothermia.
Other marine creatures like seals in the Antarctic are born with fur, but penguin chicks have nothing to protect them.
Penguins' food (krill) moves south because of warmer waters making the poor birds waddle farther, at a mile an hour.
Ice breaks up and the penguins are forced into the water; the under developed chicks don't survive.
"Penguins are going about 60 kilometers [37 miles] farther to find food than they did a decade ago,"
In 2006 she visited the seasonal sea-ice home of the penguin colony featured in the 2005 movie March of the Penguins. The region was uncharacteristically ice free.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-endangered-penguins.html
Why would you find pleasure in my weeping?
I was quoting what local people told me in Costa Maya and Belize last year.
Your excellent site gives one of the three
theories for the Mayan demise although the cores from the lakes give logical evidence of climate change as do the cores taken from the Antarctic.
The Maya Civilization existed in some form from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1500 on and near the Yucatán Peninsula of southern Mexico and northern Central America.
The Mayan priests were brilliant in using the past to understand the present and the present to understand the future. The Mayan calendar is considered to be more accurate than the Gregorian one that we use.
Mayan historians wanted to create a calendar that could be used to record history for centuries. This led to the
Long Count calendar. The Long Count incorporates an era called the Great Cycle, which lasts approximately 5,125.36 years.
The idea that the world is on its way to an end comes from the Long Count:
A Mayan historian began recording events on both the Long Count and Gregorian calendars. Scholars then compared the dates on both calendars and confirmed the beginning of the current Great Cycle as August 13, 3114 B.C., making the end of the fourth Great Cycle ”” December 21, 2012.
Theorists believe this is the day that the world will end, and all living things on earth will die.
However, the Mayans themselves don’t actually believe that the world is going to end at the end of this cycle. In fact,
they believe that it’s a time of great celebration and luck when the planet lasts through a full Great Cycle. After all, we’ve made it safely through three other Great Cycles, and the world is still turning.
What makes this cycle so different, some believe, is that it ends on a winter solstice. The sun will align with the center of the milky way. This particular event happens only every 26,000 years or so.
Mel Gibson's 2006 movie
Apolcalypto had an extreme focus on violence and its complete exclusion of the Maya's brilliant advances in art, science, mathematics and astronomy.
It aroused curiosity about the demise of the Mayans and
The 2012 Theory
Information on the calendar:
http://www.civilization.ca/civil/Maya/mmc06eng.html
http://www.maya-portal.net/
Have a look at the clip on 'The 2012 Theory':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5MS5Odp2qQ&feature=related
This is their reference site:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm?list862664
Wouldn't it be ironic if current solar storms were the cause of GW...!