Penguin supercolony discovered in Antarctica
By Paul Homewood
Compare and contrast!! (Part II)
BBC – December 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-30192616
Science News – March 2018
On an expedition to an icy island chain off the Antarctic Peninsula’s northern tip, researchers discovered a massive supercolony of more than 1.5 million Adélie penguins, according to a study published March 2 in Scientific Reports.
Scientists had known of an Adélie penguin colony (Pygoscelis adeliae) in these Danger Islands, but satellite images revealed more guano on the rocky islands than could be explained by the colony’s expected numbers.
Even though the tiny island chain is only about 10 kilometers across, researchers hadn’t realized the extent of the penguin population, says study coauthor Heather Lynch, an ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York. “In the Antarctic, distances are so vast, something major could be just around the corner and you wouldn’t know.”
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/penguin-supercolony-discovered-antarctica
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Not funny for the Adele, but isn’t it strange no-one at the time mentioned it was the increase in thickness and extent in sea ice that caused the decimation of chicks.
Wow! There must have been a population explosion due to, er, all that extra cold weather we’ve been seeing caused by, er, global warming.
Someone will claim that polar bear populations are climbing too next, due to, er, thicker sea ice also resulting from, er, global warming.
These creatures are so annoying. First it was the polar bears who refused to die, then it was the walruses, now it’s the damn Adelie penguins. When will they start doing what the climate alarmists want?
Just heard on the local news that the Great Barrier Reed is dying. This is a great mystery to me because it has already died several times. Or so I have been assured.
Every decade its death is announced due to the latest left wing popular scare story. Another ten years it will be entering its final stage again due to racism/sexism creating bad vibes in the atmosphere. Corals are sensitive creatures, you know. They can sense these things and it puts them off.
Everyone knows that animals are hard to control without extensive schooling, the animals at the BBC are a prime example.
Don’t forget that global warming (or should that be climate change) has resulted in no penguins in the Arctic and no polar bears at the Antarctic.
Six ruddy comments and not a single chocolate biscuit joke. For shame!
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Maybe the blighters have moved to avoid the ecotourists. Maybe their sensitive natures have led them to be offended by the level of ecoporn.
I notice, though, that someone said they will have to rethink how they “manage” this new discovery. After all, life never coped before humans were there to organise it.
Some time ago there was the usual lying BBC ecoprogramme which shamefully exploited poor little David Attenborough – showing him an Antarctic beach devoid of Adelie penguins and ice due to global warming. See post dated 25 April 2016 on this site.
Settled science eh?
That ‘Ship of Fools guy:
“Even though the tiny island chain is only about 10 kilometers across, researchers hadn’t realized the extent of the penguin population, says study coauthor Heather Lynch, an ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York. ‘In the Antarctic, distances are so vast, something major could be just around the corner and you wouldn’t know.’”
Sorry, Heather, that does not cut it in the true scientific world. It is your job to rule out other colonies before bleating they are “toast”. When you have “toast” as an hypothesis, it is incumbent on you, as a scientist, to rule out other colonies before declaring “toast” as settled science.
Modern ecologists (for the past 4 decades) have been guilty of glittering generalities. It used to get them in trouble. They made assumptions, failed to follow up by actually looking, published and had egg on their faces when someone (usually a taxonomist) actually did look. Either they were too lazy to look OR, more likely, did not want to find a slew of penguins–bad for their “the sky is falling” statements. She says with the distances you wouldn’t know. It is their job to find out.
We don’t know, what we don’t know.
Is that included in the scientific method?
Best comment I have seen for some time, Joan!!
For those commenters on this site who have not read Prof. Jim Steele,s excellent book”Landscapes and Cycles”;obtain a copy if you can.
It is a brilliant expose of the myth makers,and their idea of scientific truth.Jim has an excellent website also.