Emperor penguins in Antarctica threatened by melting sea ice.....But Antarctic sea ice at record level.

Emperor penguins in Antarctica threatened by melting sea ice.......But Antarctic sea ice at record level. HT: NewIceAge.

Warning comes even as Antarctic sea ice hits second all-time record in a week.

Unfortunately, lies like this seem to flourish in today’s world.

According to this Danish website, “The population of emperor penguins in Antarctica will fall significantly at the end of this century because of global warming will reduce the sea ice around Antarctica, predicts an international research team.”

A 50-year field study of a colony of emperor penguins in Terre Adéliein East Antarctica showed that breeding pairs of emperor penguins were very exposed when the sea ice disappears, the article moans.
Mathematical models developed by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts paint a somewhat bleak picture for the Emperor penguin’s future, the article continues.

Two-thirds of the colonies could be reduced by more than 50 percent within a hundred years.

It then quotes Professor Jens-Christian Svenning from the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University as to why sea ice disappearance is a threat to the emperor penguins:

“When sea ice melts, then lose emperor penguins also a major source of food in the form of krill, small shrimp-like animals that graze on algae and bacteria that grows under the sea ice. Krill are important to the food chain in Antarctica because the fish feed on them, and the fish themselves are an important food source for, among other emperor penguins. So when the sea ice thinned out and disappear, lose emperor penguins an important food source, “said Jens-Christian Svenning.

Well, yes, professor Svenning, a lack of sea ice might threaten the penguins … when it melts, if it melts.

But the fact is, professor, that Antarctic sea ice extent has been growing by leaps and bounds.

Why does no one mention the fact that Antarctic sea ice has been growing since satellite records began?

Why does no one mention the that Antarctic sea ice just  hit its second all-time record in a week?