This video has absolutely nothing to do with this story, but if you’ve never seen the famous “exploding whale” video, you’re in for a treat. If you have seen it, you know you’ll enjoy seeing it again.
IHateTheMedia.com is recognized around the world as your source for up-to-the-minute environmental news. And we’re happy to report that Andrew Bolt has uncovered yet another reason to save the whales:
Australian and German researchers studying the defecation habits of the 12,000 sperm whales remaining in the Southern Ocean have found they act as an unusual way of removing carbon from the atmosphere.
In a paper published by the Royal Society, the researchers – headed by Trish Lavery of Flinders University – estimate the whales effectively remove about 240,000 tonnes more carbon than they produce, due to defecating about 50 tonnes of iron into the zone where photosynthesis occurs.
That stimulates phytoplankton to grow and trap carbon in the deep ocean.
As Rush Limbaugh has said, the best way to save endangered species is to eat them. That is, if you increase the demand for the animals, entrepreneurs will begin raising them in such great numbers that they will no longer be endangered.
Combine Lavery’s theory with Limbaugh’s theory and you’ll see that killing the whales will not only save the planet, it will save the whales. It will kill two birds with one stone. Or in this case, one harpoon.
H/T: Andrew Bolt
