[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Speed says:

January 13, 2011 at 3:13 pm

It’s worse than the report. From the Knight Science Journalism Tracker and Seth Borenstein …

However…ahem. The paper and Nature’s summary for reporters both say that flipper-banded penguins had a 16 percent lower ten-year survival rate. By contrast, the accompanying data results table says that chances of surviving for ten years fell from 0.36 to 0.20. Well, subtract those two and one does get 0.16 or 16 points difference, but as our alert AP man saw, what’s important is not that the rate fell 16 points but that 0.20 is about a 44 percent drop from 0.36
http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/2011/01/13/lots-of-inumerate-ink-penguins-suffer-when-tagged-do-the-math-most-journos-didnt/

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Jim Steele says:

January 13, 2011 at 4:33 pm

The parallels to researchers spreading the chytrid fungus yet not taking better precautions is a sad tale. But I think in general most researchers try to be aware when they are having an adverse effect.

I am bothered more by the fact that while the ice loving Penguins were declining on the peninsula, where the warm waters of the polar front come closest to the Antarctic continent, The colonies of ice loving Penguins have tripled in the Ross Sea.

This paradox growing populations was mentioned in a recent article in Science on the state of our oceans, but simply dismissed, claiming that “our models say it will warm there soon”. So they then went on to hype only the declining populations.

[Marine_Uncle]

So those good feeling scientist, are killing off the birds. Al must be proud of them.