{"id":299883,"date":"2024-02-05T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T11:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=299883"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T11:33:03","slug":"claim-the-sex-mad-global-warming-penguin-population-explosion-is-a-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=299883","title":{"rendered":"Claim: The Sex Mad Global Warming Penguin Population Explosion is a Cause for Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"299886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=299886\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00penguin-waddle_1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-299886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wattsupwiththat\"><\/a>From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wattsupwiththat\">Watts Up With That<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wattsupwiththat\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wattsupwiththat\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wattsupwiththat\"><\/a><strong>Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aussie scientists struggling to present good news as a grim warning about the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Phillip Island\u2019s little penguin colony passes 40,000 as climate change leads to more mating<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/gippsland\/\">ABC Gippsland<\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/william-howard\/102582472\">William Howard<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/people\/millicent-spencer\/102286022\">Millicent Spencer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polyamorous little penguins living on Phillip Island, off Australia\u2019s southern coast, are having so much sex there are now more than 40,000 of them \u2014 and it is all thanks to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Phillip Island\u2019s little penguin colony is growing as rising sea temperatures lead to more fish<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With more energy, the animals are mating twice each season, often with different partners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Climate scientists warn it is\u00a0important to look at the full picture of events in the ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As sea surface temperatures have increased, so too has the number of fish swimming in the surrounding coastal waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phillip Island Nature Parks marine scientist and Monash University associate professor Andre Chiaradia said the influx of food meant the \u201copportunistic\u201d little penguins had more time, and energy, to mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A false sense of hope?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Brendan Wintle, the director of the Melbourne Biodiversity Institute and lead councillor at the Biodiversity Council, said shifts in one part of an ecosystem had impacts elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEcosystems are big connections, big webs of interactions between animals and plants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re seeing changes in one animal or plant species, you can be absolutely sure that\u2019s going to be having an impact on hundreds of other species that we may not be studying so closely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-02-01\/little-penguin-colony-growing-as-climate-changes-victoria\/103414498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-02-01\/little-penguin-colony-growing-as-climate-changes-victoria\/103414498<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I understand this climate thing now. When a species mass die off occurs, climate change is blamed, but when benign conditions cause populations to boom, scientists warn about the imminent climate change mass die off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what are the long term prospects for the penguins?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t expect record populations to continue uninterrupted, really big concentrations of a single species are a disease magnet. No doubt any disease driven die back will be blamed on global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longer term, even if global warming continues, there is no evidence global warming would harm fish populations, quite the opposite. During the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>5-8C hotter than today<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2021\/12\/15\/study-ancient-fish-thrived-during-petm-extreme-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the oceans were full of fish<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a species mass die off occurs, climate change is blamed, but when benign conditions cause populations to boom, scientists warn about the imminent climate change mass die off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":299886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"When a species mass die off occurs, climate change is blamed, but when benign conditions cause populations to boom, scientists warn about the imminent climate change mass die off.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691818087,691826732,691826730,691826731],"class_list":{"0":"post-299883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-global-warming","10":"tag-monash-university","11":"tag-penguin-population","12":"tag-phillip-island","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/00penguin-waddle_1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1g0P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":276233,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=276233","url_meta":{"origin":299883,"position":0},"title":"Media Spews Misinformation About Emperor Penguin\u2019s Breeding Failure","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"29\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The recently published paper by Peter Fretwell titled\u00a0Record Low 2022 Antarctic Sea Ice led to\u00a0Catastrophic Breeding Failure of Emperor Penguins, set off a wave of misinformed doomsday articles, as his introduction stated \u201cRecent efforts to predict emperor penguin population trends from forecasts of sea ice loss have painted a bleak\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00penguin-doom.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00penguin-doom.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00penguin-doom.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/00penguin-doom.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":275974,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275974","url_meta":{"origin":299883,"position":1},"title":"\u201c10k dead penguin chicks\u201d more animal tragedy porn used to advance global warming agenda","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"28\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Like the\u00a02017 video\u00a0of the\u00a0National Geographic starving polar bear, 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.","rel":"","context":"In \"Antarctic sea ice\"","block_context":{"text":"Antarctic sea ice","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=antarctic-sea-ice"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1030.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1030.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1030.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1030.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":203875,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=203875","url_meta":{"origin":299883,"position":2},"title":"My scientific blog posts contributed to the failed Antarctic Treaty bid to protect Emperor penguins","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/06\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"There is actual evidence that two of my fully referenced\u00a0blog posts caused some Antarctic Treaty delegates to reject a bid for special protected status for Emperor penguins.\u00a0Activist heads have exploded. 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