You know that 'global warming' stuff that, according to the Koch brothers (one of the major contributors to the phenomenon) isn't happening? Well...it is:
An estimated 35,000 pacific walrus have been spotted ashore on a beach in north-west Alaska. Unlike seals, the mammals cannot swim indefinitely and are now coming ashore in record numbers as they struggle to find sea ice for resting in the Arctic.
And what is causing the disappearance of the ice that the walrus have been depending on for about 2.5 million years? Benghazi...probably. Or maybe not:
Pacific walrus spend winters in the Bering Sea. Females give birth on sea ice and use ice as a diving platform to reach snails, clams and worms on the shallow continental shelf. As temperatures warm in summer, the edge of the sea ice recedes north. Females and their young ride the edge of the sea ice into the Chukchi Sea, the body of water north of the Bering Strait.
In recent years, sea ice has receded north beyond shallow continental shelf waters and into Arctic Ocean water, where depths exceed two miles and walrus cannot dive to the bottom.
Because walrus aren't 'job creators', are a bunch of 'takers' and are probably 'Muslins'.
Margaret Williams, managing director of the group's Arctic program, said the phenomenon is “another remarkable sign of the dramatic environmental conditions changing as the result of sea ice loss”.
"The walruses are telling us what the polar bears have told us and what many indigenous people have told us in the high Arctic, and that is that the Arctic environment is changing extremely rapidly and it is time for the rest of the world to take notice and also to take action to address the root causes of climate change."
Yeah,
sure, Margaret...whaddaya: some kinda commie? Get with the program, Margaret: nature responds to tough love. Drill, baby, drill! And walrus don't vote, so fuck 'em.
Check out the astonishing photos in the link...and Welcome to GOP World.