Really, truly, no doubt, this is not good

 

You don't ever want to read a headline like this.  Unfortunately, I think more will be in the offing in the next decades.

Virtually all emperor penguin colonies doomed for extinction by 2100 as climate change looms, study finds

“There is a sea ice ‘Goldilocks’ zone,” said Stephanie Jenouvrier, a seabird ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and a lead author of the study, in a statement. “If there is too little sea ice, chicks can drown when sea ice breaks up early; if there is too much sea ice, foraging trips become too long and more arduous, and the chicks may starve.”

In parts of the Antarctic Peninsula, according to the researchers, sea ice cover has shrunk by over 60 percent in three decades and one emperor penguin colony has already “virtually disappeared.”