Dead Penguins Don’t Matter If They Don’t Advance a Political Point

What, you didn’t hear/read the story about the “massive breeding failure” among Adélie penguins, in which only two–yes two–offspring of 18,000 breeding pairs survived? Well, there’s a reason for that.

You can guarantee that you would have heard about it 24/7 had it been even remotely plausible to pin this catastrophe on anthropogenic global warming. Algore, every A through Z list celebrity (looking for an opportunity to distract from Harvey Weinstein’s shrubbery), every politician from Australia to Zimbabwe would have been on about it incessantly, at high volume, and in the highest dudgeon.

But the die-off was due to–wait for it–excessive sea ice which greatly increased the distance that the adults had to go to get food. So because they died for the wrong reason–and indeed, died for a highly inconvenient reason (or would that be truth?)–the story made barely a ripple. Move along, nothing to see.