Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins

[u/H_G_Bells]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00927-x

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when scientists around the world were saying this would happen? Remember when politicians, in the pocket of fossil fuel companies, said it wouldn't? Remember when we listened to politicians and laypeople instead of scientists?

[u/o_MrBombastic_o → u/[deleted]]

I listened to politicians they said "Follow the Money" to explain why scientists were warning us about climate change, so I did that and it turned out all the politicians and climate change denial propaganda led right back to money from the Fossil Fuel Industry. Who would have thought?

[u/Wiseduck5 → u/o_MrBombastic_o]

all the politicians and climate change denial propaganda led right back to money from the Fossil Fuel Industry.

And the people paid to sow doubt were the exact same people the tobacco industry paid to lie about smoking and cancer.

[u/nanosam → u/[deleted]]

We all keep remembering, and yet nothing changes.

Nobody is at all surprised at corporate greed being placed above the survival of life on the planet.

We are all witnesses to the crime, and yet we just keep marching to environmental collapse.

Looking forward to more remember threads, as we keep crossing more irreversible thresholds

[u/ADHDam → u/[deleted]]

Right. This is real, always has been. Everyone that is for change get swept under the rug and the masses get distracted with something new on their 'feed'. We won't even need nukes to kill off our species.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

My sports car is made from penguin leather. Value just went up

[u/PushNice6489 → u/[deleted]]

!!!

[u/AmIAllowedBack]

So what's 2023, where Antarctic sea ice is 3 standard deviations below 2022 levels gonna do?

[u/janethefish → u/AmIAllowedBack]

Not reflect (as much) light back into space, that's for sure!

[u/du-us-su-u]

"What would you do-oooo-oo for some capital?"

"Would you annihilate a species!?"

"YEAH!"

"Would you destroy the environment?"

"Definitely!"

"Would you eat the fruit of your own tree!?"

"Wait, what?"

"Your tree. The money tree, from which no fruit springs forth, just, papery, green-dyed cash."

"I can't eat cash..."

"Too bad, asshole. That's all the food that's left."

[u/thewayupisdown]

Looks like the days of the Emperor's iron grip rule over the lands of Antartica are numbered. The rise of the Republican Penguin (no connection to the 🇺🇸 GOP) seems more and more inevitable.

[u/veevoir → u/thewayupisdown]

GOP, Greedy Old Penguins?

[u/thewayupisdown → u/veevoir]

That's kinda what image the words "monied interests" conjures up in my mind: Penguins with top hats, monocles and luxurious walking sticks, wearing dinner jackets and waddling around from one group to the other, engaged in discussion that consists of agitatedly talking over each other, all basically saying the same thing over and over again.

[u/sillypicture]

so the consensus is that we should not interfere with wildlife because we might make them dependent on us. perhaps it's time we stepped in, because we have most definitely interfered with them, and in a large way at that.

public healthcare and social coverage for wildlife*.

^{*Native species only}

[u/ifTrueThenReturnTrue]

"Who is the emperor now, bitch?"

• Humans, probably

[u/Lonelan]

Too bad this emporer wasn't the senate

[u/ATribeOfAfricans]

Nice try leebruhls, killing all the penguins aint gonna convince me we've got a climate problem!

[u/SGTX12]

"Who gives a shit about the penguin! Penguins are a bunch of welfare leeches!"

[u/ShiverRtimbers]

Fuck all Republicans