Jesse Zimmerman’s hat reports breathlessly at Grist
Well HERE’S some cheerful news for your Friday afternoon: Dozens of dead baby dolphins have been washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico, along Mississippi and Alabama coastlines. Crap.
Well, I’ll agree with that sentiment.
The timing seems pretty suspicious — the BP oil spill happened around the time these baby dolphins would have been starting to gestate. But NOAA’s cautioning people not to leap exuberantly through a hoop to conclusions. Cold water can also kill dolphins, and the water has been cold lately — in fact, NOAA was already starting to look into weather-related dolphin mortality in the Gulf last year, right before the oil spill hit.
See? Don’t jump to conclusions that it is BP’s fault (though, I have a feeling that it is partly at fault), because the water in the Gulf has been….cold? Wait, I thought the water in the Gulf was getting so warm that all the coral was going to die?
While NOAA’s trying to figure out whether we can blame BP or just the cruelty of nature for this one,
Looks like Jesse’s hat forgot the current talking point, that Man’s release of greenhouse gases is making things cold.
