For as far back as I can remember I have been saying that we will never see a Public Outcry regarding Global Warming (Actually we called it "The Greenhouse Effect" back then, Global Warming is a relativly new term) until people see dead penguins on the 6:00 News. That's right Dead Penguins, babies, their mothers, Skuas picking at the bodies strewn all over the ice with a vice over by Dan Rather. Well, Rather's gone and the penguins are still there. But, if the supply of krill, the bottom of the food chain, is dwindling, how long do the penguins have? My thinking was that the Antarctic would warm up, reducing the amount of plankton, the krill would die off leaving less food for the small fish that penguins feed on etc...
This season we had Humpback Whales calving here, in Samoa, rather than in Hawai'i for the first time in Human memory. The Experts believe that the pregnant females were too "slim" to complete the swim to Hawai'i. I haven't seen any, but fishing buddies have seen more Killer Whales around our islands this year than ever before too.