Walruses die; global warming blamed

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/14/07 | Dan Joling - ap

[donnab]

If Gore stayed home and kept his mouth shut ..imagine all the walruses that would be saved!

[Scotsman will be Free]

No problem. It was just a bunch of stupid russian walruses.

[PeteB570]

Wait just a darned minute here.

Global warming should be helping.

After all, it’s making more, not less beach space.

At least to those who believe in Global Warming.

[death2tyrants]

“The reason is the global warming,” Kochnev said. “

Yeah, sure Ivan. And those Poles in they Katyn Forrest were killed by the Germans.

[wbill]

Love the imagery. I think that "Herds of Stampeding Walruses" should be added to the "We're DOOMED" posts....

As in..."DOOMED. Bush's Fault. Women and Children hardest hit. Dogs and Cats living together, herds of stampeding walruses, TOTAL ANARCHY!"

[gondramB]

They say its global warming when really that is just a cover up for the bucket conspiracy.

[wbill]

Sea ice is still salty. Less so than seawater, but still salty. Old sea ice (blue in color) is less salty than new sea ice (white in color)

I was surprised to find this out, too. The more you know....

[captnorb]

Always have been leary of three name persons(Joel Garlach-Miller).

[boomop1]

Killer whale food post 4.

[Dick Bachert]

How dare you pick on Wilford. He’s one of my favorite actors and delivered some of the best lines in the movies in which he worked. Who could forget that conference room scene in “Absence of Malice?” “...somebody’s ass in my briefcase.” Laugh every time I think about it.

[Wil H]

I didn’t know that Rosie has a part time job as a decoy for the Russian Whaling fleet!

[Edgerunner]

Every time a “scientist” does this, they lessen the creditability of SCIENCE itself! They are causing damage to their reputations also. I guess money trumps everything for this type...

[higgmeister]

                          koo koo ka choo

                                                              goo goo g'joob?

Oh, what does it all mean anyway!?

[wolfcreek]

maybe the walreses were pretending to be dead?

We saw an Elephant seal in Cali that looked dead.....until my Wife walked up to it. Never seen her run so fast.

[USS Alaska]

No large-scale walrus die-offs were seen in Alaska during the same period

American walruses are smarter than Russian walruses. Capitalism works again, our walri invested their money and bought their own ice flows.

[Verginius Rufus]

Serves ‘em right for eating all those poor oysters. (Lewis Carroll reference.)

[southernerwithanattitude]

I guess even the snow is salty up there because of “global warming”? ha ha The greatest hoax ever gets better and better all the time.

[CIB-173RDABN]

We learn something new each day.

[lepton]

They say its global warming when really that is just a cover up for the bucket conspiracy.

Bucket Adjustments to SST records.

[lepton]

But ice disappeared in the Chukchi Sea this year because of warm summer weather, ocean currents and persistent eastern winds, Garlach-Miller said.

Note the three causes cited. There's actually also a fourth: less than usual cloud cover.

The effects of the winds aren't trivial either - they've been blowing sea ice up north on the Bering Strait side of the Arctic, and blowing it south into warmer water on the Greenland side of the Arctic, where it melts because it is further south than usual.