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Penguins starving to death is sign that something’s very wrong in the Antarctic
- masonic 9y agoThis article seems to imply that Global Warming is at least partly at fault, but the similar 2013 event was attributed to too much sea ice, not warming, in another Guardian article[1]: "The colony had experienced a similar event in 2013, when no chicks survived. In a paper about that event, a group of researchers, led by Yan Ropert-Coudert from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, said it had been caused by a record amount of summer sea ice and an “unprecedented rainy episode”." [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/12/penguin-catastrophe-leads-to-demands-for-protection-in-east-antarctica https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/12/penguin-...
- MaysonL 9y agoOf course, it could simply be that the increase in sea ice is due to global warming. Rising sea temperatures generate more humidity, which causes more snow, leading perhaps to more Antarctic ice.