The ferry I am currently on has just passed the #PenguinsFPSO a floating storage and production operations vessel that, #Shell assures us here, "is an attractive opportunity with a competitive forward looking price".

And all I can think of is the paper I commented on last week about emperor penguin chicks that failed to fledge because the #SeaIce around #Antarctica broke up early.
#FossilFuels #OilAndGas #ClimateChange #EmperorPenguins

https://www.shell.com/about-us/major-projects/penguins.html

"Emperor Penguin Breeding Failure Linked With Antarctic Sea Ice Decline"

#Antarctic #Penguins #EmperorPenguins #Animals

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24082023/penguin-breeding-failure-antarctic-sea-ice-decline/

I have studied emperor penguins for 30 years. We may witness their demise in our lifetime | Barbara Wienecke | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/28/emperor-penguin-extinction

#Penguins
#EmperorPenguins
#Extinction
#ClimateCrisis
#GlobalBoiling
#GlobalWarming

Satellite imagery shows none of the chicks from those sites survived.

The devastating event is the first recorded widespread breeding failure of #EmperorPenguins (Aptenodytes forsteri); but, if the loss of ice due to climate change continues, scientists warn, it won't be the last.

https://www.sciencealert.com/penguin-breeding-colonies-catastrophically-failing-as-ice-vanishes-in-antarctica

Our precious #EmperorPenguins should be the headline right now. Not jackass-hooligan-mobster f*ckery 🤮
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/world/emperor-penguin-breeding-antarctic-sea-ice-climate/index.html

Emperor penguins: thousands of chicks in Antarctica die due to record-low sea ice levels

“Thousands of emperor penguin chicks across four colonies in Antarctica are believed to have died because of record-low sea ice levels that caused a “catastrophic breeding failure” in late 2022, according to new research.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/emperor-penguins-thousands-of-chicks-in-antarctica-likely-died-due-to-record-low-sea-ice-levels

#Penguins #EmperorPenguins #PenguinChicks #Antarctica #MeltingIce #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisaster #ClimateChange #ClimateActionNow

Emperor #penguins lay eggs from May to June. The eggs hatch after 65 days. But chicks do not fledge until the following December and January.

Last year 100% of the sea ice in Antarctica's Bellingshausen Sea region melted in November, making it very unlikely any of the chicks survived - "a breeding failure at an #unprecedented scale".

#Antarctic #seaiceMelt #seaice #climateEmergency #climateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #emperorpenguins

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0824/1401496-penguin-colonies/

#EmperorPenguins: thousands of #chicks in #Antarctica likely died due to record-low sea ice levels | Antarctica | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/emperor-penguins-thousands-of-chicks-in-antarctica-likely-died-due-to-record-low-sea-ice-levels

#Environment #Ecology #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Penguins

#emperorPenguins #breedjng #failure. https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0824/1401496-penguin-colonies/

Originally posted by The Weather Channel / @weatherchannel@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/pattrn/status/1650944263797047296#m

RT by @weatherchannel: This robot name ECHO is on a mission to study Antarctica’s #emperorpenguins.

The @WHOI project hopes to learn how the colonies are adjusting to melting sea ice and moving food sources.

#WorldPenguinDay

Retrat of the #Penguins
#EmperorPenguins demonstrate the most amazing adaptations: in the middle of the #Antarctic winter, in the worst conditions, the males huddle together to keep warm and protect the eggs carefully transferred to them by the females. But climate change is threatening emperor penguins. A new study says if #GlobalWarming continues at its current rate, more than 80 percent of emperor penguin colonies will be gone in the next 80 years. Cont..."

https://only.one/watch/emperor-penguins

"A newly discovered emperor penguin colony has been seen using satellite images of one the most remote and inaccessible regions of Antarctica."

#Penguins #EmperorPenguins #Antartica #Animals #Wildlife

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/20/scientists-discover-emperor-penguin-colony-in-antarctica-using-satellite-images

@TheGuardian_uk
What a warning this is. Another one. And yet we know that these colonies have lost chicks totally in past seasons as ice shelves have not lasted long enough for the chicks to survive. How many more warnings do we need!! #emperorpenguins

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-08-marine-areas-antarctica-young-emperor.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2022-08-marine-areas-antarctica-young-emperor.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1565037720996663298#m

Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica should include young #emperorpenguins, scientists say @RSocPublishing https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/captchaChallenge https://phys.org/news/2022-08-marine-areas-antarctica-young-emperor.html