Yes Laurie, I thought the same thing.
There is no need to discuss belief in climate change. Its not a religion. Its
science. Let's get on with fighting it.
Janine
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Laurie Knight <> wrote:
>Yes Ian, believers in what?
>
>Even the United States Republican Party accepts that climate change is
>happening. Last week the US Senate voted 98-1 that "It is the sense of the
>Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax.”
>http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-senate-climate-hoax-20150121-story.html
>
>Regards, Laurie.
>
>
>On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:59 am, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>
>>
>> The believers? What? The Monkees fan club?
>>
>> Carl Clifford
>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2015, at 9:10 am, Ian May <> wrote:
>>>
>>> H
>>>
>>> Hello Laurie
>>>
>>> Not wanting to upset "the believers", I cannot help but wonder if these
>>> researchers ever considered that a decline of Antarctic Krill could be
>>> caused by the exponential increase of Cetaceans that has occurred over the
>>> past two decades. Is it true that a current population estimate of just
>>> one species, the humpback whale has now reached 80,000 individuals?
>>> About five years ago, the population estimate at that time had increased to
>>> 35,000 animals?
>>> See
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans#Global_Population_Estimates
>>> or http://whaleone.com.au/whale-facts/
>>>
>>> As a part time researcher from a time nearing the end of the commercial
>>> whaling era when it was rare to sight a large whale in Australian waters, I
>>> occasionally pondered the effects on the pelagic world from competition on
>>> the basic marine food source impacted by the presence or absence of
>>> Cetaceans.
>>> My conclusion was that you cannot have your krill and eat it too.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>>
>>> Ian May
>>> PO Box 110
>>> St Helens, 7216
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Laurie Knight wrote:
>>>
>>>> The following study contrasts the fortunes of Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguins
>>>>
>>>> see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120121304.htm
>>>>
>>>> Original study: MJ Polito, WZ Trivelpiece, WP Patterson, NJ Karnovsky, CS
>>>> Reiss, SD Emslie. Contrasting specialist and generalist patterns
>>>> facilitate foraging niche partitioning in sympatric populations of
>>>> Pygoscelis penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015; 519: 221 DOI:
>>>> 10.3354/meps11095
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