MELTDOWN (BABY harpseals are dying in the thousands global warming)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Express in the UK

MELTDOWN

Sunday April 1,2007
By Stuart Winter


BABY seals are dying in the thousands as global warming turns the ice fields where they are born into a watery wasteland.

Thousands of baby seal are perishing as high temperatures break the ice into millions of tiny pieces, hurling the youngsters into the treacherous seas.

Unlike the parent animals with their coats of thick, insulating blubber, the cubs cannot swim and have no way of staving off the bone-chilling cold of the late winter seas.



Once they slip into sea they quickly succumb to the cold and exhaustion.

But even if they are lucky - like the pitiful animal in our picture - and manage to scamble back on to the ice with their tiny flippers, an even more chilling fate awaits - a hunter’s club.

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[KoKo]

1. Yep...Bushie Policies are KILLING US ALL..even our Pets and Ourselves

and ...the beat goes on...but WE WILL KNOW..AND WE WILL NOT FORGET...AND WE ARE WORKING!

[magellan]

2. Poor little babies

Humans deserve what's coming, the animal kingdom doesn't. I hope enough of the "lower" species survive to enjoy seeing the back of humankind.

[flvegan]

3. And yet, they'll still find reason to have the seal "hunt" this year.

"Hunt" is in quotes just as it should have been in the article. These people aren't hunters, they simply beat animals to death.

Shameful.

On edit: Nomination number 5 coming up!

[Ilsa]

4. 60 Minutes reported on the declining population of Chinstrap

penguins due to less krill to feed on. There is less krill because there are fewer iceburgs for them to grow beneath. These penguins used to be 6 feet tall a million years ago, they believe. Now they are shorter than Danny Devito.

[Lorien]

7. If there's a massive krill die off the ocean's ecology is screwed

and so are we; the oceans provide 65% of our oxygen.

[The Stranger]

9. There is no more "if" -- we are already "screwed."

[Ilsa]

11. I thought scientists had looked to frongs as a sentinel species.

I guess the Chinstrap penguins and other krill-eating lifeforms should have been watched more carefully.

I don't know if the krill are dying off, but maybe there are alot less of them.

[hang a left]

5. Sooo sad

Such a pretty baby!

[smalll]

6. Stop clubbing baby seals!

Or at least don't give them glowsticks!

[Beaverhausen]

8. This is so horrible

:cry:

[EnviroBat]

10. Maybe it would be fun to "hunt" some hunters...

I just can't see how any thinking, feeling, human being could engage in this shit. People who can freely walk the Earth like that should probably be exterminated, before the seals are.