7 continents 1planet

BBC

Now on Antarctica and the growing problems that climate change pose the animals that live there .

As usual wonderful filming and with commentary from David Attenborough.

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This programme ( above) showed the plight of the Albatross which is very near extinction. climate change has affected it badly .

It WAS very moving !

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mph-storm.html

In New Zealand they are trying to save the Albatross by a new experiment .

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It was a lovely program & I got quite emotional at times.

The Albatross link was lovely too, I hope the birds come back & breed there.

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I watched that tonight too, Muddy.

Wasn't it awful when those poor baby Albatross's got blown out of their nests. How very strange the parents couldn't recognise their own chick's call or smell.

The only thing I do find annoying on some of these programmes is the flippin' music! I have said this before.
When there is a hunt of some sort going on, like when the Whales were hunting for example, a whole bloomin' orchestra strikes up.
I understand it is probably supposed to add to the excitement of the chase, but it is far, far too loud and overwhelms what is happening IMO.

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Yes the BBC up to their old tricks....
More food for the climate change freaks..
What about the geology or other aspects of the Antarctic...
Why spend several minutes showing the struggles of a baby Albatross or the the futile attemps of a Penguin trying to escape the Orca's?
It makes you feel somehow responsible.....
And that's exactly what the beeb intend you to think..

Life has always been thus in the Antarctic.
But how bad do you feel now after watching that and listening to the haunting voice of an old croaky guy.....
And the winner is:-------Such Drama!

The human race.....such a cruel species.....Bollox!

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It hasn’t always been thus .
The ice was not melting at this rate not the unseasonable storms .

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Of course it has Muddy, until Amundson reached the south pole in 1911 we didn't know anything about Antarctica except it was covered in ice and snow and nobody should go there because of the severe storms and sub zero temperatures....

Do you think the world stood still until the twentieth century Muddy?

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OGF believe what you like the evidence for climate change is overwhelming .
And it’s human interference has exasperated it.
Ie Half of California is a raging inferno at the present moment .
The water table has dropped .
Deserts and pollution are the results .
We have to do something and we need to do it yesterday .

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The climate is changing Muddy as you so rightly point out, at least we can agree on that. But the climate is not, and never has been static...
There have been drought and forest fires since time began. The seeds of some trees actually only germinate after a period of 'raging inferno's' it is one of nature's way of clearing out the old and replacing it with new.

Mountains and valleys have been forged by receding ice and flood, where were humans then Muddy....Humans do not have the power to prevent climate change, no more than we have the power to alter gravity all beit on a small scale.
Even if humans have contributed to the speed of that change (which I very much doubt) change is coming and is inevitable.

Humans have not inhabited this planet long enough to experience all of the facets of climate change. Some previous occupants have, and are now extinct.
Here in the western world and elsewhere, we have fashioned out a very comfortable existence, one that cannot be sustained. And as sure as eggs is eggs it will eventually come to a sticky end, but you and me have no need to worry Muddy because we'll be long gone....

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Oh well Foxy, you are right about ...

I can't bear it.