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Default Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes

On Oct 5, 7:41*pm, Roger Coppock wrote:
On Oct 5, 12:35*pm, tunderbar wrote:



On Oct 5, 2:25*pm, Roger Coppock wrote:


Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes
Coastal sea ice has been decreasing, stressing walruses.


by ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: October 2, 2009,
In the New York Times


Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from industrial-
scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried that they face a
mounting threat from global warming.


Masses of lumbering walruses have been crowding on beaches and rocks
along the Russian and American sides of the Bering Strait in the
absence of the coastal sea ice that normally serves as a late-summer
haven and nursery.


While the retreats in sea ice around the Arctic this summer were not
as extensive as in 2008 or 2007, the Chukchi Sea, at the heart of the
walrus subspecies’ range, was largely open water.


On Thursday, biologists from the United States Geological Survey
issued a report concluding that 131 walruses found dead near Icy Cape,
Alaska, on Sept. 14 died from being crushed or stampeded. Several
thousand walruses had been congregating in the area, a situation that
scientists from the agency said was highly unusual.


[ . . . ]


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/sc...s.html?_r=1&pa...


read further down the page:


"For the moment, the Pacific walrus remains abundant, numbering at
least 200,000 by some accounts, double the number in the 1950s."


Now isn't that "worrying". Did global warming peak in the 1950's?


You have an inability to think in more than one variable.
look for the phrase, "industrial scale hunting."
Poor reading comprehension is a hallmark of
fossil fools, it seems.


I did read it. Industrial scale hunting appears to not be as big a
threat as the mythical global warming. LOL.
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Default Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes

tunderbar wrote:
On Oct 5, 7:41 pm, Roger Coppock wrote:
On Oct 5, 12:35 pm, tunderbar wrote:



On Oct 5, 2:25 pm, Roger Coppock wrote:


Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes
Coastal sea ice has been decreasing, stressing walruses.


by ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: October 2, 2009,
In the New York Times


Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from
industrial- scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried
that they face a mounting threat from global warming.


Masses of lumbering walruses have been crowding on beaches and
rocks along the Russian and American sides of the Bering Strait in
the absence of the coastal sea ice that normally serves as a
late-summer haven and nursery.


While the retreats in sea ice around the Arctic this summer were
not as extensive as in 2008 or 2007, the Chukchi Sea, at the heart
of the walrus subspecies’ range, was largely open water.


On Thursday, biologists from the United States Geological Survey
issued a report concluding that 131 walruses found dead near Icy
Cape, Alaska, on Sept. 14 died from being crushed or stampeded.
Several thousand walruses had been congregating in the area, a
situation that scientists from the agency said was highly unusual.


[ . . . ]


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/sc...s.html?_r=1&pa...


read further down the page:


"For the moment, the Pacific walrus remains abundant, numbering at
least 200,000 by some accounts, double the number in the 1950s."


Now isn't that "worrying". Did global warming peak in the 1950's?


You have an inability to think in more than one variable.
look for the phrase, "industrial scale hunting."
Poor reading comprehension is a hallmark of
fossil fools, it seems.


I did read it. Industrial scale hunting appears to not be as big a
threat as the mythical global warming. LOL.


As usual, tundy just makes some **** up. lol


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