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Emperor penguins are leaving poo stains that are visible from space. It's a good thing.
Emperor penguins are leaving poo stains that are visible from space. It's a good thing. (aol.com)
But they are the reason Antarctic researchers have been able to identify four new colonies of emperor penguins — a species threatened with extinction by climate change.
A scientist from the British Antarctic Survey used satellite imagery to spot tell-tale patches of the penguins’ guano (a technical term meaning bird poop), visible from space as a series of brown smudges against the vastness of the White Continent.
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How many penguins are required to make a poop stain on a glacier that can be seen from a satellite in space?
Apparently this is now the scientific method we’re using to make definitive scientific statements about the demise, or Not, of penguins in the Antarctic. Really?
We can see a penguin poop but Not the penguin -- how reassuring for our global warming scientists.
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Reflections on prior penguin-poop stories about their demise caused by man-kind:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-could-they-miss-15-million-adelie.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/05/penguins-ice-shortage-really.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/04/global-warming-and-flourishing-emperor.html
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