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Fake Penguin Crisis and the Global Warming Scam
September 25, 2012 · By Rick Manning · 0 Comments
ABC News’ website headlined an article in
June, “Emperor Penguins Threatened By
Shrinking Kingdom,” with this just being
one of a series of articles crying the alarm
around the globe that the loveable penguin,
star of both the big and small screen is
endangered by global warming.
Accompanying these claims, we read about
how arctic ice flows are melting at a high
level, due to climate change with gloomy
predictions about what this means to
ecosystems.
Antartic cooling (Chart by
Of course, any third grader can tell you that
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penguins live in Antarctica, the continent which
includes the South Pole, and not the Arctic which is the floating ice mass that
covers the top of the earth.
Apparently, this distinction is lost on the penguin peril prognosticators because
Antarctica is actually cooling, not warming, and ice flows on the continent are
increasing. (see chart below.)
In response to this alarming data that Antarctica is actually cooler today than it was
33 years ago with a trend toward more cooling, warming activists explain that it is
the ozone hole and other phenomena causing this anomaly.
Note, the warming activists don’t deny that Antarctica is cooling, they only attempt to
explain it with promises that warming is just around the corner in forty to fifty years.
So, the penguin paranoia is completely unjustified. Of course, you can’t take away
the terror that has and continues to be inflicted on children who love our tuxedo
feathered friends largely through viewings of “March of the Penguins” and “Happy
Feet.”
But that is the way of the enviro-alarmist. Pick a loveable looking creature that
makes a great plush toy, and then create alarm that it is endangered from some
source in order to demonize production and manufacturing in the United States and
the developed world.
After all, it is far easier to make the battle about the penguin or even the polar bear
than it is to fight over a snail darter, smelt or even a Great Plains Narrowmouth frog.
In the enviro-fundraising world, mammals and birds sell, insects and reptiles don’t.
In order to keep their machine well oiled in small donations of youngsters lunch
money, penguins have to be part of the global warming endangerment, whether
they are actually threatened or not.
Incredibly the enviros are winning this game, with the Obama Administration Interior
Department adding five penguin species to the endangered list even though not a
single penguin lives naturally in the U.S. or any of our territories.
To quote from an article on treehugger.com, the outcome disappointed environment
extremists who had hoped to hit a grand slam instead of the solo home run with the
ruling, “conservationists had hoped that the petition would force the Obama
administration to confront climate change as a threat to ecology and biodiversity
worldwide.”
Under the ruling, the Obama Administration did not include climate change as a
rationale for the “endangerment” of penguins, temporarily denying environmentalists
a legal tool to shut down U.S. domestic energy production using the impact on our
waddling south pole friends as the justification.
However, getting five species penguins listed as endangered species to requests
that additional penguins be included using global warming as the rationale. The
recent faux uproar over Arctic ice data and what it means for penguins on the other
side of the globe is just one more step in that direction.
Because it really doesn’t matter that the penguin habitat is not threatened in
Antarctica.
The only thing that matters is getting money to promote policies that attack and
destroy free market economies around the world on the green altar.
So pay attention to our tuxedoed feathery friend, he is likely to become the new
symbol in the enviro battle to shut down coal-fired electric generation plants – even
as he thrives in the massive, expanding ice flows surrounding his home in
Antarctica.
Because in the waning months of 2012, facts are meaningless, it is about
perception and spin, and after all who wouldn’t want to protect Tennessee Tuxedo
and Happy Feet?
Jun 20, 2012 12:42pm
Emperor Penguins Threatened By Shrinking Kingdom
Researchers studying
the effects of climate
change in Antarctica
say shrinking sea ice
means bad news for
emperor penguins: an
81 percent reduction in
the number of breeding
pairs by 2100.
“We conclude that climate change is a significant risk for the emperor
penguin,” says the study, published this week in the journal Global Change
Biology.
Scientists caution, however, that the study contains large uncertainties because
climate model forecasts disagree on exactly how the ice will respond to a
warming world.
The study projects the number of emperor penguin breeding pairs in a colony
at Terre Adélie will drop from roughly 3,000 to as few as 500 by the turn of the
century. But researchers point out that if the ice does shrink at their current
home, the penguins may simply move to regions with more favorable sea ice
conditions.
Emperor penguins are the largest of the species and breed and raise their
young almost exclusively on the ice, biologists say.
“If the sea ice breaks up too early, this will cause massive breeding failures
because the chicks will not yet have the waterproof plumage that will allow
them to swim in the water,” said study co-author Stephanie Jenouvrier, a
biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
“If they happen to be in the water, they will die,” Jenouvrier said.
Decreasing amounts of sea ice may also have a ripple effect on the penguin’s
food supply, including fish, shrimp and krill.
The study’s authors relied on simulations from 20 computer climate models
that assume moderate growth in greenhouse gas emissions.
A vast majority of climate scientists believe humans have been steadily
warming the atmosphere and oceans since the industrial revolution, leading to
“widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.”
“People say the temperature may increase by two degrees, so what?’”
Jenouvrier told ABC News. “But changes that may seem small to humans are
not small to species, and may affect the entire ecosystem.”
FAKE PENGUIN CRISIS ARTICLE
1. What is the CENTRAL IDEA of this article?
2. SUPPORTING IDEAS
LIST THE MAIN SUPPORTING IDEAS
THAT LEAD TO THE CENTRAL IDEA
ABOVE
EXPLAIN HOW EACH SUPPORTING
IDEA CONNECTS BACK TO THE
CENTRAL IDEA
3. Write a 1-2 sentence OBJECTIVE SUMMARY of this article.
3. Skim and scan the article’ supporting details and find the FACTS & OPINIONS in
the article. List as many as you can of each below. It is possible to have more of
one than the other.
FACTS
OPINIONS
Statements that can be proven with evidence,
research
Statements that can not be proven with
evidence, research & only show the
attitudes/feelings of speaker
EMPORER PENGUINS THREATENED ARTICLE
1. What is the CENTRAL IDEA of this article?
2. SUPPORTING IDEAS
LIST THE MAIN SUPPORTING IDEAS
THAT LEAD TO THE CENTRAL IDEA
ABOVE
EXPLAIN HOW EACH SUPPORTING
IDEA CONNECTS BACK TO THE
CENTRAL IDEA
3. Write a 1-2 sentence OBJECTIVE SUMMARY of this article.
3. Skim and scan the article’ supporting details and find the FACTS & OPINIONS in
the article. List as many as you can of each below. It is possible to have more of
one than the other.
FACTS
OPINIONS
Statements that can be proven with evidence,
research
Statements that can not be proven with
evidence, research & only show the
attitudes/feelings of speaker
COMPARE & CONTRAST BOTH ARTICLES
R.A.C.E* (explain when prompted)
1. What are the contrasting supporting details for each article? CITE the texts!
2. Review the facts and opinions chart for each article.
How do these two charts differ? Identify which article has more fact/opinions than the
other?
EXPLAIN.
3. Why would any article have more opinions than facts? EXPLAIN.
4. Explain your thoughts on WHY two published texts could so clearly disagree on the
SAME topic?
CONSPIRACY THEORY: GLOBAL WARMING
FILM VIEWING GUIDE
FACTS GIVEN IN VIDEO
OPINIONS GIVEN IN VIDEO
REFLECTION
1. EVALUATE the facts/opinions given in the video. What is the strongest
supporting detail AGAINST global warming theories? EXPLAIN.
2. GUT REACTION! Do you believe Jessie Ventura and his advising team? Credible?
Factual? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER.
3. Which article that you read today would SUPPORT this film? Explain why.