Nov 13 2008

Warming climates cause penguins to… freeze

Posted by: maxym @ 10:57 am

According to reports from National Geographic, penguin chicks in Antarctica are apparently dying due to climate warming up over there. What’s happening is young chicks are getting rained on during the day (instead of been snowed on), and then at night they freeze to death because of soaked wet down which can handle the dry snow but not water. Penguin are slow geting smarter and migrate further in from edges of the sea where temperature is still cooler. But for now thousands of chicks are literally freezing to death because of warmer temperatures. Amazing how twisted effects of warming up can be.