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Warmism’s Seal of Approval

Peter O'Brien

Aug 08 2016

7 mins

leopard sealLet’s say you run an eco-tourist operation involved in providing adventure tours in Antarctica.  One of your main lines of business might be using your specially equipped yacht ‘Australis’ to host legions of scientists studying the effect of climate change.  But getting late in the season, business starts to dry up and expensively fitted out yachts that charter at over $4,000 (poa) per day for a minimum 21-day trip to Antarctica don’t pay for themselves if siting beside the dock in Ushuaia.

So, as an enterprising businessman you come up with a nice little earner.  You contact an Australian TV show and suggest that they might like to provide a film crew to accompany a scientific mission to study leopard seals and the effect that climate change is having on them and their food chain.  ‘Climate change’ is the clincher, of course, but to put icing on the cake you hype up the leopard seal as one of the top predators in Antarctica – second only to the killer whale — a…

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