In the Face of Climate Change, These Sea Lions Are Getting Smart and
The Tuna Herders.
The gist of these articles is that "climate change" has forced the sea lion to form packs to kill tuna rather than to eat sardines because of the "warming ocean." Has everyone forgotten that Spanish fishermen (now properly fisher-people) from shortly after the conquest of the Incas knew of El Niño, or "The Christ Child" for its frequent appearance around Christmas. This is a cyclical warming of the Pacific. It was discussed in the August 30, 1973 issue of the New York Times (
link, excerpts below):
There is a warm and unwelcome current of water that flows down from the Equator past the coast of Peru every year around Christmastime that the fishermen call "El Nifto De Navidad" -the Christmas Child. The warm current is unwelcome because it' is bad f ot the fish. ....But on the seventh year, El Nino cannot be denied; for as long as any of the old fishermen can remember, on the seventh year El Nino defeats the Humboldt current, making the waters warm and the fish sluggish. The anchovies huddle together, do not breed well, and the fishing is bad. Last year was one of those seventh years.
I have a rather poor memory but do recall both that article and the offending El Niño of the winter of 1972-3; the same El Niño that gave NYC its unsnowiest winter.
We are now in another such El Niño. Perhaps the sea lions are smart enough to try another food; smarter than the panicky, agenda-driven and government-funded "scientists."
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