I have not often written about narwhals, but the BBC’s continuing green obsession and failure to observe journalistic fundamentals takes me there today. Here, BBC eco-campaigner Matt Walker (formerly a writer for the warmist publication New Scientist) reports with bated breath so-called research from some of his fellow obsessives from California which claims that the said narwhals are under threat from climate change because they swim slowly and will not be able to breathe properly when they are surrounded by breaking, melting ice floes.
Now, I am not a scientist, but something that my junior school teacher called common sense nevertheless tells me that narwhals have been around for rather a long time, and that the amount of ice around in the arctic has fluctuated considerably over the millenia (glaciation and all that), so our marine friends must have learned to adapt. But don’t just take my undeducated word for it. Here, and here, a Portuguese blogger called Ecotretas, who clearly has studied deeply the ebb and flow of the Arctic, points out that there was more open sea seven thousand years ago and narwhals managed to survive.
In other words, the California story is alarmist tosh. Mr Walker, had he done even a smidgeon of good old-fashioned journalistic digging, could have found the papers that Ecotretas refers to. But balanced journalism is not on his agenda. Never let the facts get in the way of a good BBC eco-scare.
Research both sides of the argument and not blunder straight in there repeating a load of nonsense fabricated by some other eco-fascists?? That’d never do!
I have never written about Narwhals !
The never-ending drip-drip of BBC global warming alarmism is hardly worth commenting on anymore – but don’t worry. I can assure you the general public are heartily sick of it too. And when they become aware of the outrageous oxygen* taxes and energy surcharges our pathetic posturing politicians are planning – expect a severe popular backlash.
*I noticed politicians have taken to shortening the name of carbon dioxide (the harmless, life-giving gas essential for all life on earth). Now they just call it ‘Carbon’ hoping to fool people into associating it with dirty black soot. However, by weight, CO2 is 73% oxygen and only 27% carbon – so a more accurate name would be ‘Oxygen’.
My god, you’re right. We must ban oxygen. For the children. Reminds me of that Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode where they got ecofags to advocate the banning of water.
You’re not expecting common sense from a greenie, surely?
They are really scraping the barrel now, the crappy ill thought out lazy trash gets worse by the week it seems.
The AGW cult are getting very desperate and it shows, threadbare crap pumped out without the slightest regard for truth and accuracy, obviously the BBC doesnt check its stories out, their job is to pump out the trash to give the illusion of consensus.
I am searching for a word in my mind….hmm…ooh I know, muppets?
So both narwhals and iron age settlements were able to survive warmer periods? Gosh.
And Polar Bears
Of course Narwals would survive they are after all <a href=”http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Narwhals/“>the Jedi of the sea</a>
I don’t know about you gentlemen, but I’m not sure I can live without something I’ve never heard of until now (I looked them up; they look like the embarrassing result of a one-night stand between a dolphin and a unicorn).
Never liked them.
Death to all narwhals.