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Title: Mass Death of Seabirds in Western U.S. Is 'Unprecedented'
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National Geographic
URL Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ ... alifornia-animals-environment/
Published: Jan 24, 2015
Author: Craig Welch
Post Date: 2015-01-24 11:18:37 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 28249
Comments: 86
Why are so many auklets, from California to Canada, starving? In the storm debris littering a Washington State shoreline, Bonnie Wood saw something grisly: the mangled bodies of dozens of scraggly young seabirds. Walking half a mile along the beach at Twin Harbors State Park on Wednesday, Wood spotted more than 130 carcasses of juvenile Cassin's auklets—the blue-footed, palm-size victims of what is becoming one of the largest mass die-offs of seabirds ever recorded. "It was so distressing," recalled Wood, a volunteer who patrols Pacific Northwest beaches looking for dead or stranded birds. "They were just everywhere. Every ten yards we'd find another ten bodies of these sweet little things." Cassin's auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. Their total population, from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska's Aleutian Islands, is estimated at somewhere between 1 million and 3.5 million. Last year, beginning about Halloween, thousands of juvenile auklets started washing ashore dead from California's Farallon Islands to Haida Gwaii (also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) off central British Columbia. Since then the deaths haven't stopped. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish. "This is just massive, massive, unprecedented," said Julia Parrish, a University of Washington seabird ecologist who oversees the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a program that has tracked West Coast seabird deaths for almost 20 years. "We may be talking about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths. So far." One Die-Off Among Many The gruesome auklet deaths come just as scientists around the globe are seeing a significant uptick in mass-mortality events in the marine world, from sea urchins to fish and birds. Although there doesn't appear to be a link to the virus that killed tens of millions of sea stars along the same shores from California to Alaska over the past 18 months, some scientists suspect a factor in both cases may be uncharacteristically warm waters. The U.S. Geological Survey and others have performed animal autopsies, called necropsies, on several of the emaciated Cassin's auklets. They've found no evidence of disease or trauma—no viruses or bacteria, no feathers coated with spilled oil. The birds appear simply to have starved to death. "There's very little evidence of food in their GI [gastrointestinal] tracts or stomachs," said Anne Ballmann, with USGS's National Wildlife Health Center. Poster Comment: Global Warming / Climate Change
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#47. To: CZ82 (#45)
So place a link about your "report" on this thread so that I may be able to clearly see your relevant facts.
So, you can not or are unble to support your own opinions? Is that the reason for silly rants, as above?
So why don't you? BTW would like a good recipe for Basil Pesto tortellini soup?
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
I don't know the actual link to the report you want to reference in this discussion. What you performed shows a serious weakness about your position, not mine. I want the exact report you want to reference for this discussion not an uncertain report.
BTW would like a good recipe for Basil Pesto tortellini soup?
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
I have, you dont like it? Too bad. Do you deny the existence of mass amounts of smog in places i listed? You are a special sort of flower to keep posting on this thread.
He fancies himself a “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
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Moderator X
Donate to the Commie/UN/Algorian Human Fund. If they want to execute a plan based on junk-pscience that requires funding to stop Mutha Earth from bursting out of her bra-straps, it should be on them. You onboard with your donation?
Comedy gold. Naw! You kidding?? That's...Soylent Green stuff! And yet, even that is the fault of Americans. Yup. It's our fault we invented factories and plastic. It's also our fault we aren't all living in grass huts and caves, and not burning cow dung to roast our catapillars and rats.
Wait... Are you telling us you support the positions of AlGore, the UN, and PETA? The manipulatedh junk science propaganda of mercenary and corrupt official reports authored by the "science communitah"?
I am proud of you, that your personally admit that the root casusation of failure is the USA. Can you provide some facts to support your opinion?
You have consistently shown that you are incapable of adressing my requests. My requests for your supportive data substantiating your personal opinions are easy to publish, too. Your own enemies must smash you with delight; as exposed, you are an easy target, at least for discussion groups. Do you friggen need 'Data' to tell you when the sun is shining and when it isn't? Omg, you are probably the most mush headed tool ive ever come across! Hilarious!!!
The sky is falling! Were all doomed! RUN!!!
Your comment requires data to support your personal perspective.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/virtual-chinese-sunrise-broadcast-on-giant-television- screens-because-of-smog-was-fake-9072075.html The chineese money men made this story disappear, the 'Ad' story is bullshit. Look at the smog though, this is the kind of pictures the dumbass needs studies on. Lmao!
No it doesn't. Ant.
Are you saying that you are a God; that all you are capable of for communication techniques is based on opinion?
Are you saying that which is easily observable to the human eye is an opinion? Wow, you are quite dense
Enough playing kick the baby, life needs some attention.
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Here weasel. www.forbes.com/sites/nial...e-and-american-cities-in- comparison-infographic/
time.com/3677893/china- pollution-film-jia-zhangke/
Here's a map, i feel i need to tell you its a map, because you apparently are that dense.
www.theguardian.com/world...pollution-nuclear-winter- http://scientists">www.theguardian.com/world...nuclear-winter-scientists Nuclear WINTER? Wow, that'll leave a mark, yikes...
In some circumstances, (perhaps Boston, NYC, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, Seattle, San Diego, etc.) it may be prudent to pursue massive public works programs, similar to the Netherlands, to enable these cities to continue to function below sea level. In other instances where this isn't geologically feasible or along less developed coastline, it may simply be more prudent to prohibit and further development in the low lying areas and shift the population to higher ground,... gradually move people out of the way before Mother Nature reclaims the property by force.
"Some people march to a different drummer — and some people polka."
Ya notice how he never did produce his facts. It's just all a game to get you to waste your time while he trots off to the loo to read Playgirl magazine.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Hehe, no worries.... I dont post as much as I used to, only because it IS a waste of time, people's positions at this point in time, with those of us who have been following government policy, that changing others minds will never happen. Years ago, it was possible, in fact, I became less of a busy body with the need to control what others do, due to the persuasive arguments of more libertarian leaning posters. Now? People have written so much and have such an ego, that having a seismic shift in their beliefs is impossible at this point in time. The left equals an insatiable desire to control what others do, make, and increasingly, think. I despise busybodies at this point in life, and have no patience for the BS they spew to justify the control over others they feel they need to exert, through the power of government, in order to 'feel' safe. Hence, when the power of the government grows, they are very much OK with that. Spotting a statist is very easy, arguing with them is pointless. I'd rather laugh at them.
So, you are prepared to spend trillions of dollars on a problem that doesnt exist? Smart!!
Climate change is real and unavoidable, so the "smart" thing to do is plan on how to live with it rather than worry about trying to stop it.
"Some people march to a different drummer — and some people polka."
Same as it has ever been Some days it rains. In the summer it is hot. In the winter it is cold. In the fall it can be warm, cold or hot. Same with the spring. There is no climate change. That is something a bunch of dopes are pedaling. Al Gore is a piece of shit.
Willy, we all know that your real position is:---
Climate change is real and unavoidable, so the "smart" thing to do is plan on how to live with it rather than worry about trying to stop it. True, but global warming, which is the boogyman you are willing to spend trillions of other people's money on, is total hooey. If anything, we are entering into a period of cooling. That, in fact, would be worse for farming, and that means worse for humans. Unfortunately, you all started chasing the wrong pig to start your efforts to dismantle American competitiveness. Gorbachev started the modern green movement, not exactly a scientist, its ALWAYS been a political tool. Btw, how many of AlGores predictions in his book came true? I will await your response.
I asked you to provide facts about your opinions. I did so: Pridie.Nones - posted on 2015-01-24 16:49:43 ET; You finally replied: albeit reluctantly: Dead Culture Watch: on 2015-01-24 21:09:21. Throughout the time difference of over four hours all you performed was "hem&haw." So, for over four hours you provided no factual details to support your wild claims. And lookie here: you use wikipedia as a reference towards your failing perspective. You are not in the least bit "objective" about the issues confronting mankind.
If you expect me to dance when you wish, expect to be disapointed. Where is your impartiality? Hypocritical smugness is easy to spot, easier to make fun of. So, show us all your data, make sure you 'hide the decline'.
Btw, you are the one with 'wild claims'. I simply call bullshit on you sky is falling dumbasses.
Let me place my perspective in a clear position for you: You are a waste of keystrokes. With some luck, you might "get it."
So, ya got nothing....lol, I win. Tard
#48. To: Dead Culture Watch (#44)
Piss off ant.
#49. To: Pridie.Nones (#47)
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#50. To: CZ82 (#49)
So why don't you?
#51. To: Pridie.Nones (#50)
#52. To: Pridie.Nones (#48)
So, you can not or are unble to support your own opinions? Is that the reason for silly rants, as above?
#53. To: Dead Culture Watch (#52)
You are a special sort of flower to keep posting on this thread.
#54. To: Dead Culture Watch (#52)
#55. To: Pridie.Nones (#40)
What shall your "list" of tax-payers do that may quell your ambitions and objectives?
#56. To: Dead Culture Watch (#43)
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You ever see the picture of that chineese electronic billboard that showed a sunrise in the morning, so people could actually see a sunrise for a change?
#57. To: Pridie.Nones, CZ82, Dead Culture Watch (#28)
No facts, no data, no presentation, no support what-so-ever other than hearsay, conjecture, borrowed commentary and obscure, hand-me-down discussions that have impressed you towards an opinion, 'eh?
#58. To: Liberator (#56)
Yup. It's our fault we invented factories and plastic. It's also our fault we aren't all living in grass huts and caves, and not burning cow dung to roast our catapillars and rats.
#59. To: Pridie.Nones (#54)
#60. To: Liberator (#57)
#61. To: Dead Culture Watch (#59)
1) most of the pollution in the world comes from the third world and China; 2) all the left cares about is crippling what little incentive the average American has left; 3) and sucking away the hard earned money they have
#62. To: Liberator (#56)
#63. To: Pridie.Nones (#61)
Your comment requires data to support your personal perspective.
#64. To: Dead Culture Watch (#63)
#65. To: Pridie.Nones (#64)
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#67. To: Dead Culture Watch (#65)
#68. To: Pridie.Nones (#67)
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#71. To: Pridie.Nones (#67)
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#73. To: Pridie.Nones (#67)
#74. To: Liberator (#30)
Any sensible suggestions?
#75. To: Dead Culture Watch (#73)
#76. To: CZ82 (#75)
#77. To: Willie Green (#74)
#78. To: Dead Culture Watch (#77)
#79. To: Willie Green (#78)
Climate change is real and unavoidable,
#80. To: Willie Green (#78)
Climate change is real and unavoidable, so the "smart" thing to do is plan on how to live with it rather than worry about trying to stop it.
Man made climate change is real and unavoidable, so the "smart" thing to do is to let your superiors plan on how to live with it rather than fight with us about trying to stop it. -- Just obey.
#81. To: Willie Green (#78)
#82. To: Dead Culture Watch (#73)
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#83. To: Pridie.Nones (#82)
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#86. To: Pridie.Nones (#85)
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