Things aren’t going well for Mother Gaia. Oh, not because of global warming, but instead because those damn arctic animals won’t die off like the global warming theory predicts.
NewScientist.com tells the good news for arctic critters:
CONTRARY to popular belief, Arctic animals have done rather well over recent decades. The first analysis of a 40-year database of Arctic species reveals that populations grew by 16 per cent on average between 1970 and 2004.
The Arctic Species Trend Index covers 35 per cent of all Arctic vertebrate species. The analysis, led by Louise McRae at the Zoological Society of London, shows several mammals have benefited from hunting bans. Populations of bowhead whales, for instance, have risen by about 3 per cent per year for 30 years.
But the trend masks worrying recent declines. Warmer waters in the Bering Strait boosted the Bering Sea pollock between 1970 and 2003 by increasing plankton growth, but numbers have since declined. The dark-bellied brent goose has also declined, after an initial recovery of numbers. The team says the recent declines could be linked to climate change.
Got that? Animal populations are up, but it masks a worrying decline.
Global warming doubletalk at its finest.
Source: NewScientist.com
This post was last modified on March 29, 2010
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Melting ice causes oceans to become cooler and adds support to food ecology of oceanic species. More plankton more lives. Gaia has a way to keep herself IN BALANCE.
But the manipulators and liars are always selling some form of bullshit or other "LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO PUBLIC PROPERTY!! PAY TAX!!" or "LOOK WHAT WE'VE ALL DONE!! WE'RE SO EVIL AND OMNIPOTENT WE HAVE THE POWER TO KILL GAIA!!! NOW PAY ME YOUR SUPERHEROS TO FIX THIS AND THAT VERY DIRE PROBLEM!!!"
Al Gore is just one of the many faces of superhero wannabes and Big Corps. He did style himself after superman before his gluttony finally manifests physically for all to see.
It is as if they WANT the Earth to collapse or something.