Remember those 150,000 Antarctic penguins that died from starvation after iceberg blocked their sea access? They just walked to someplace better... 'Dead' Antarctica Penguins Are Fine http://news.discovery.com/animals/dead-antarctica-penguins-are-probably-fine-160216.htm Let's give the penguins a little credit. The news reported around the world was startling — that some 150,000 Adélie penguins have died in Antarctica because a colossal iceberg cut off their sea access. But there's no proof yet that the birds are dead. No one has actually found 150,000 frozen penguins. In fact, experts think there's a less horrific explanation for the missing birds: When the fishing gets tough, penguins simply pick up and move. It wouldn't be the first time Adélie penguins marched to new digs. When an iceberg grounded in the southern Ross Sea in 2001, penguins on Ross Island relocated to nearby colonies until the ice broke up. (More at above url) In other news... it appears that Climate Alarmists will go to no end to fabricate dismal news about nature and try to tie their assertions to "climate change".
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/43/3/203 Solar forcing of Holocene summer sea-surface temperatures in the northern North Atlantic Abstract Mounting evidence from proxy records suggests that variations in solar activity have played a significant role in triggering past climate changes. However, the mechanisms for sun-climate links remain a topic of debate. Here we present a high-resolution summer sea-surface temperature (SST) record covering the past 9300 yr from a site located at the present-day boundary between polar and Atlantic surface-water masses. The record is age constrained via the identification of 15 independently dated tephra markers from terrestrial archives, circumventing marine reservoir age variability problems. Our results indicate a close link between solar activity and SSTs in the northern North Atlantic during the past 4000 yr; they suggest that the climate system in this area is more susceptible to the influence of solar variations during cool periods with less vigorous ocean circulation. Furthermore, the high-resolution SST record indicates that climate in the North Atlantic regions follows solar activity variations on multidecadal to centennial time scales.
http://www.rxiv.org/pdf/1504.0124v1.pdf Energy Non-Conservation and Climate Science: There have been many studies noting correlations between solar cycles and changes in the Earth temperature. The most notable being the Maunder minimum 1645-1715, during which there was no sunspot activity, and which coincided with the “little ice age”. However correlations do not provide causal relations. The assumption has always been that increased sunspot activity results in increased solar irradiance which subsequently causes increased Earth temperatures, although no convincing mechanism has been accepted. However the variation in irradiation is too small to cause the observed Earth temperature fluctuations. Fig.9 shows strong correlations between sea temperature and solar flare counts, and solar flare counts are simply a proxy for 3-space turbulence, as shown in [8]. Various data are thus implying that increased 3-space turbulence is responsible for the heating of the ocean. The mechanism is again coming from the _____ with increased [velocity] leading to maximum energy generation for water molecules moving in the direction of [velocity]. This energy is subsequently dissipated to other less energetic water molecules, resulting in an overall heating effect. This heating then explains why the earth’s temperature record so closely tracks solar flare counts. Fundamentally then it is implied that the Earth’s climate is controlled by a non-conservation of energy process.
Over the last 35 years the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. However global temperatures have been increasing. Since the sun and climate are going in opposite directions scientists conclude the sun cannot be the cause of recent global warming. The only way to blame the sun for the current rise in temperatures is by cherry picking the data. This is done by showing only past periods when sun and climate move together and ignoring the last few decades when the two are moving in opposite directions.
Speaking of the Pope, the guy went all gangsta yesterday. You've heard the saying, enough to piss off the Pope. Now we know what it takes. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-loses-cool-person-almost-knocked-him-down-044137761.html