{"id":275974,"date":"2023-08-28T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275974"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:35:03","slug":"10k-dead-penguin-chicks-more-animal-tragedy-porn-used-to-advance-global-warming-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275974","title":{"rendered":"\u201c10k dead penguin chicks\u201d more animal tragedy porn used to advance global warming agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Like the\u00a02017 video<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0National Geographic starving polar bear<\/a>, the 2022 deaths of emperor penguin deaths promoted last week is emotional blackmail. Both are examples of preposterous fear-mongering pushed by activist scientists and the media for political purposes. Don\u2019t fall for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite the hype last week over the\u00a0newly published paper<\/a>\u00a0by Peter Fretwell and colleagues, there is no plausible ecological rationale for proposing that that a single season\u2019s reproductive failure in four small colonies of emperor penguin (Aptenodytes fosteri<\/em>), due to\u00a0La Nina conditions<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 phenomena unrelated to carbon dioxide emissions \u2014 are signs of\u00a0a future \u201cquasi-extinction\u201d<\/a>\u00a0of the species, as proposed in the BAS video\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0None<\/em>\u00a0of the\u00a0estimated 282,150 breeding pairs<\/a>\u00a0of adult emperors were lost in 2022 off the\u00a0Antarctic Peninsula<\/a>\u00a0and chicks born in\u00a0several dozen<\/em>\u00a0other emperor colonies around the Antarctic continent survived, which means this was a tiny bump in the road rather than a catastrophe for the species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Turner (British Antarctic Survey) and Josifino Comiso (NASA) stated in a NATURE paper in 2017:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCurrent climate models struggle to simulate the seasonal and regional variability seen in Antarctic sea ice.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Antarctic sea ice extent at\u00a03 October 2022<\/a>, NSIDC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite\u00a0emotional rhetoric<\/a>\u00a0about very recent declines, sea ice conditions in the Southern Hemisphere have not responded as predicted to global warming theory (Blanchard-Wrigglesworth et al. 2021, 2022; Comiso et al. 2017; Turner and Comiso 2017; Turner and Overland 2009). This has left activists of all stripes to shoe-horn any ecological anomaly into a narrative of impending doom, which the media spoon-feed to a naive public, even though a recent review showed Antarctic species dependent on sea ice are thriving (Crockford 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years now, several British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists and their allies have been lobbying the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)\u00a0to up-list the emperor penguin<\/a>\u00a0conservation status to \u201cvulnerable\u201d on the basis of predicted \u201cquasi-extinction\u201d due to future sea ice loss caused by global warming (Jenouvrier et al. 2009). They want what\u00a0polar bear scientists got in 2006<\/a>, on similar shaky grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2022, under pressure from\u00a0litigious activists in the US<\/a>, emperors were added to the Endangered Species List as \u201cthreatened\u201d (USFWS 2022). Out-of-date predictions of Antarctic sea ice\u00a0known by industry experts to be flawed<\/a>, combined with extreme climate scenarios known to be implausible (Blanchard-Wrigglesworth et al. 2021, 2022; Hausfather and Peters 2020), were peddled by penguin experts to support a preposterous narrative of climate change disaster in Antarctica (Jenouvrier et al. 2020; Trathan et al 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Jenouvrier et al. (2020). The \u201cunmitigated scenario\u201d or \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d is known to be quite impossible (Hausfather and Peters 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this drama despite evidence that by 2019 about 600,000 emperor penguins were breeding in 54 known colonies scattered around the Antarctic continent, as the image below shows (Fretwell and Trathan 2020), including a number of\u00a0previously unknown colonies<\/a>\u00a0discovered using satellite imagery, as well as an updated sea ice model suggesting stable ice cover should continue until at least 2050 and decline only slowly after that (Rackow et al. 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Fretwell and Trathan (2020), where colonies 8 (Bryant Coast), and 9 (Smyley Island) off the\u00a0Antarctic Peninsula<\/a>\u00a0were among the emperor penguin colonies lost in 2022, while colony 10 (Rothschild Island) survived and colony 7 (Prfogner Point) was inexplicably abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as of 2018, the IUCN held out, stating [my bold]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This species is listed as Near Threatened because it is projected to undergo a moderately rapid population decline over the next three generations owing to the projected effects of climate change.\u00a0However, it should be noted that there is considerable uncertainty over future climatic changes and how these will impact the species.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0[Birdlife International 2018]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This decision was clearly\u00a0unacceptable to emperor penguin specialists<\/a>, who still fervently desire the coveted IUCN \u201cvulnerable\u201d status for their species as well as\u00a0\u201cSpecially Protected Species\u201d<\/a>\u00a0status under the Antarctic Treaty, which was\u00a0rejected in 2022<\/a>\u00a0(Fretwell et al. 2020). Peter Fretwell, who is a remote sensing expert for the BAS, told the\u00a0BBC in 2019<\/a>\u00a0(9 October):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEverything we know \u2013 all the experts, all the models \u2013 tells us that Emperors are going to be in real trouble. We need to pull out all the stops to help them. That\u2019s going to be hard because we know the one thing that\u2019s really going to save them is stabilisation of the global climate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Newest nonsense<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fretwell and his buddies are at it again,\u00a0funded by the WWF<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0egged on<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0media outlets committed to promote the human-caused climate change agenda.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer sea ice around Antarctica has always virtually disappeared over the summer (down to 15% or less than winter extent) and no one pretends that emperor penguins require summer sea ice for survival. The loss of fast ice that struck in 2022 off the Antarctic Peninsula occurred in austral spring (late November), just weeks before emperor penguin chicks were fully fledged and able to survive on their own. This was an unfortunate, one-off mortality event associated with a localized sea ice anomaly likely caused by La Nina conditions in the Southern Ocean, as Fretwell and colleagues concede (Fretwell et al. 2023:5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The emperor penguin life cycle portrayed\u00a0by the BBC above<\/a>\u00a0shows that chicks in the late \u201cbrood and creche\u201d stage of development in spring. At this stage, after months of feeding, the chicks are approaching adult size but don\u2019t yet have adult waterproof feathers and so are vulnerable to October or November storms strong enough to suddenly break up the sea ice under their feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet these authors egregiously frame the assumed loss of more than 9,000 chicks as a significant portend of future catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claims that the 2022 loss of chicks was\u00a0unprecedented<\/a>\u00a0are also nonsense, since a much\u00a0larger colony failure happened in 2016<\/a>\u00a0(involving perhaps 14,000-25,000 chicks) due to early sea ice breakup caused by bad weather that was similarly pegged as a disaster for the species. Except it wasn\u2019t: subsequent research showed\u00a0adult birds simply relocated<\/a>\u00a0to other areas the following year and successfully raised their chicks in new colonies, since suitable habitat exists all around the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\u00a0BBC report on the 2022 penguin colony loss<\/a>\u00a0contains a sea ice chart for 15 Novermber (copied below, with additions), which shows how localized this event really was. The region circled in red (by me) in the Bellingshausen Sea is where the failed 2022 colonies were located, while the X marks the area of the 2016 colony failure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Jim Steele pointed out yesterday<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter), there are also some inconsistencies in the Fretwell and colleagues claim that early breakup of fast ice in 2022 caused four out of five colonies off the Antarctic Peninsula to be lost [my bold]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Pfrogner Point colony was only discovered in 2019. Its estimated population of 1200 pairs bred on a stable ice shelf, not on fast ice. Yet they still abandoned the colony in November.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. There was no breeding failure on the Rothschild Island colony because there, fast-ice persisted as needed until the end of December.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The location map for the above-mentioned colonies from the Fretwell et al. (2023:3) paper, copied below, shows the abandoned Prfogner Point colony well outside the area of early sea ice breakup and the surviving Rothschild Island smack in the middle of it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Bottom line<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There is no scientific rationale for proposing that a single season\u2019s reproductive failure in a few breeding colonies out of dozens is a sign of\u00a0future \u201cquasi-extinction\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for emperor penguins.\u00a0None<\/em>\u00a0of the\u00a0estimated 282,150 breeding pairs<\/a>\u00a0of adult birds were lost in 2022 and chicks born in about 50 other colonies around the Antarctic continent also survived, which means this was a tiny blip in the life of emperor penguins rather than a catastrophe for the species. Activist scientists and the media are shamefully using emotional language to describe an almost inconsequential mortality event in order to manipulate public sentiment and force influential conservation organizations to accept a scientifically unsound political agenda. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ReferencesBirdLife International. 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Aptenodytes forsteri<\/em>. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T22697752A132600320. Downloaded on 26 October 2022.\u00a0https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/species\/22697752\/157658053<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., I. Eisenman, S. Zhang, et al. 2022. New perspectives on the enigma of expanding Antarctic sea ice, Eos 103. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2022EO220076<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Roach, L.A., Donohoe, A. and Ding, Q. 2021.<\/strong>\u00a0Impact of winds and Southern Ocean SSTs on Antarctic sea ice trends and variability.\u00a0Journal of Climate 34<\/em>(3):949\u2013965.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-20-0386.1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Crockford, S.J. 2023.<\/strong>\u00a0The Polar Wildlife Report. Global Warming Policy Foundation Briefing 63, London. pdf\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Hausfather, Z. and Peters, G.P. 2020.\u00a0<\/strong>Emissions \u2013 the \u2018business as usual\u2019 story is misleading [\u201cStop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome \u2014 more-realistic baselines make for better policy\u201d].\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0577: 618-620<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fretwell, P.T. and Trathan, P.N. 2020.<\/strong>\u00a0Discovery of new colonies by Sentinel2 reveals good and bad news for emperor penguins.\u00a0Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation<\/em>\u00a0[open access], in press.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/rse2.176<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fretwell, P.T., Boutet, A. and Ratcliffe, N. 2023.<\/strong>\u00a0Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins.\u00a0Communications Earth and Environment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jenouvrier, S., Caswell, H., Barbraud, C., Holland, M., Stroeve, J. and Weimerskirch, H. 2009.<\/strong>\u00a0Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the decline of an emperor penguin population.\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA<\/em>\u00a0106: 1844-1847. Available here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/23951047_Demographic_models_and_IPCC_climate_projections_predict_the_decline_of_an_Emperor_penguin_population
    <\/a>Jenouvrier, S. et al. 2020.<\/strong>\u00a0The Paris Agreement objectives will likely halt future declines of emperor penguins.\u00a0Global Change Biology<\/em>\u00a026(3): 1170-1184. [paywalled]\u00a0    https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/gcb.14864<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rackow, T., Danilov, S., Goessling, H.F. et al. 2022.\u00a0<\/strong>Delayed Antarctic sea-ice decline in high-resolution climate change simulations.\u00a0Nature Communications<\/em>\u00a013:637.\u00a0https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-28259-y<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Trathan, P.N. et al. 2020.<\/strong>\u00a0The emperor penguin \u2013 Vulnerable to projected rates of warming and sea ice loss.\u00a0Biological Conservation<\/em>\u00a0241:108216. [open access]\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.biocon.2019.108216<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Turner, J. and Comiso, J. 2017.<\/strong>\u00a0Solve Antarctica\u2019s sea-ice puzzle.\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0547:275-277.\u00a0https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/547275a<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Turner, J. and Overland, J. 2009.<\/strong>\u00a0Contrasting climate change in the two polar regions. Polar Research<\/em>\u00a028(2):146-164.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3402\/polar.v28i2.6120<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    USFWS 2022.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status for Emperor Penguin With Section 4(d) Rule.\u2019\u00a0Federal Register<\/em>\u00a087(206):64700-64720.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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