Posted on 12/05/2021 3:15:14 PM PST by DFG
When relationships end it might be because the spark has disappeared, or maybe you just can’t make time for one another.
But can climate change cause break-ups? It might do, according to a new study which suggests albatrosses – some of the world’s most loyal creatures – are “divorcing” more.
Research published in the Royal Society journal looked at 15,500 breeding pairs in the Falkland Islands over 15 years. Albatross divorce is basically just cheating, in human terms. It’s when one part of a couple mates with a different individual.
Like humans, albatrosses also have an awkward growing-up phase, trying (and sometimes failing) to figure out the best way to get into a relationship. . .
Just 1% of albatrosses separate after choosing their life partner – much lower than the human divorce rate in the UK. “Monogamy and long-term bonds is very common for them,” says Francesco Ventura, researcher at the University of Lisbon and co-author of the study. But in the years covered by the study with warmer water temperatures, up to 8% of albatross couples split up.
The study says “environmentally-driven divorce may be an overlooked consequence” of climate change.
Now, we haven’t heard from the intersectional feminists yet, about the certain toxic masculinity among male albatrosses. Nor have we heard from Ibram X. Kendi about hos racism and white supremacy is responsible for the avian apocalypse.
In any case the Babylon Bee staff can go home early today. And for what it’s worth:
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What about the children?!
Sometimes it’s a choice between divorce and an albatross around their neck.
We must remove all the CO2 from the atmosphere, for the children. I wish I remember the name of the UK politician who said this not too long ago.
But then we’d all die, and what’s worse, there would be no more bubbles in beer, soda or Champaign. If I can’t have my seltzer with lemon juice, I’d rather die.
Do any of them talk it out on Oprah or Dr. Phil?
I think climate change causes gender dysphoria and homosexuality.
Those trying to stop climate change are both cis-gender bigots and homophobes.
I think we should gave the albatross the same benefit of the doubt that libs gave to Bill Clinton: “It’s private behavior, it’s none of our business, it has nothing to do with their ability to perform their duties as albatross.”
So, what we learn from this is that big lies are like albatrosses. They fly around and land wherever whenever they want.
And they leave behind a mess.
Nah, they were living in sin.
Customer: What flavour is it?
Man: It’s a bird, innit? It’s a bloody sea bird . .. it’s not any bloody flavour. Albatross!
Customer: Do you get wafers with it?
Man: Course you don’t get bloody wafers with it. Albatross!
Customer: How much is it?
Man: Ninepence.
Customer: I’ll have two please.
These idiots think the climate changes in months and not hundreds of thousands or millions of years ,LOL
I have a set of Nitto Albatross bars on one of my bikes.
Does that have any bearing on climate change?
If you are concerned about excessive CO2, don’t exhale and you’ll be alright.
The Babylon Bee should sue the Royal Society Journal for restraint of trade.
Publishing satire in a science journal demonstrably harms real satirists.
Paging Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Albatross expert needed.
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