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