| Al Gore is not going to take any back up position | | | | affecting four penguin species. |
| in a Hillary Clinton presidency. Well, tell us | | | | A report entitled, "Antarctic Penguins and Climate |
| something we don't know! He says that if he's | | | | Change", said sea ice covered 40 per cent less |
| ever to enter politics again it will be as a candidate | | | | area than it did 26 years ago off the West |
| for president. What he didn't say is that he wants | | | | Antarctic Peninsula, leading to a fall in stocks of |
| to wait another four more years to see how | | | | krill, the main source of food for the chinstrap and |
| many of his global warming ideas are correct. | | | | gentoo penguins. |
| Don't we all! | | | | Meanwhile, an international team of scientists |
| The reduction in hurricanes this 2007 season didn't | | | | skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by |
| help! | | | | the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, |
| Recent stories on the polar bears didn't help. | | | | descended on Bali this week to urge the world to |
| But maybe the news about penguins can save | | | | "have the courage to do nothing" in response to |
| Al's bacon. | | | | UN demands. |
| Antarctica's penguin population has slumped | | | | Maybe we'll know in the next four years and then |
| because of global warming as melting ice has | | | | Al might be able to run for president. If the |
| destroyed nesting sites and reduced their sources | | | | penguin study has it right. But then again, that |
| of food, a WWF report said on Tuesday. The | | | | would be 2012 end of the world scenario. Who'd |
| Antarctic peninsula is warming five times faster | | | | want to be the president presiding over that? |
| than the average in the rest of the world, | | | | |