{"id":1069785,"date":"2021-11-30T18:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069785"},"modified":"2021-11-30T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:29:23","slug":"nytimes-climate-change-is-driving-albatrosses-to-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nytimes-climate-change-is-driving-albatrosses-to-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Climate Change Is Driving Albatrosses to \u2018Divorce\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnytimes-climate-change-is-driving-albatrosses-to-divorce%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP16302048393205-e1638300349189-639x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In an apparently serious article, the <em>New York Times<\/em> declared Monday that climate change is compelling some albatrosses, which usually mate for life, to \u201cdivorce\u201d their partners.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a study published last week by New Zealand\u2019s Royal Society, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/29\/world\/asia\/albatross-climate-change.html?campaign_id=51&amp;emc=edit_mbe_20211130&amp;instance_id=46565&amp;nl=morning-briefing%3A-europe-edition&amp;regi_id=70308298&amp;segment_id=75647&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=6e6d0080f2cf38bce424d428bfa84dfc\">article<\/a> by Natasha Frost states that albatrosses are among the most monogamous creatures on the planet but \u201cclimate change may be driving more of the birds to \u2018divorce.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe researchers, led by Francesco Ventura of the University of Lisbon, found that the divorce rate (sic) among the birds\u2026 increased in years in which the ocean was warmest,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>The research reportedly involved 15,500 breeding pairs of black-browed albatrosses on New Island in the Falklands using data collected over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlbatross divorce is typically very rare,\u201d the article notes with no apparent irony, and the \u201cmost common trigger for permanent separation is an inability to successfully fledge a chick.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The article also states that albatross divorce is \u201cthe technical term used by the researchers\u201d and foreshadows \u201ca worrisome trend for seabird populations in general as temperatures rise globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The anthropomorphism does not end with the concept of divorce, however, as the article also speaks of the birds\u2019 \u201clove\u201d for one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty obvious they love each other,\u201d it states, citing Graeme Elliott, an albatross expert at New Zealand\u2019s Department of Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter you\u2019ve been watching albatrosses for 30, 40 years, you can kind of spot it,\u201d Elliott asserts. \u201cThey do all this stuff that we think\u2019s important \u2014 human emotion stuff, you know \u2014 greeting the long-lost mate, and they love each other, and they\u2019re going to have a baby. It\u2019s wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Albatross divorce is just the latest in a long list of misfortunes blamed on global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change has also been blamed for the rise of the Taliban, \u201ccognitive decline,\u201d California fires, shrinking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2014\/10\/22\/climate-change-is-shrinking-goats-say-researchers\/\">goats<\/a>, a toxic caterpillar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2020\/02\/14\/climate-change-blamed-for-toxic-caterpillar-plague-in-spain\/\">plague<\/a> in Spain, the death of 80,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2016\/11\/18\/global-warming-blamed-deaths-80000-reindeer\/\">reindeer<\/a>, the Syrian conflict, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/07\/09\/nigerian-president-blames-climate-change-for-genocide-of-christians-by-fulani-terrorists\/\">massacre<\/a> of Christians in Nigeria, smaller French <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2019\/02\/06\/alarmists-climate-change-caused-british-chips-shrink-inch\/\">fries<\/a> in the UK, the disappearance of the Loch Ness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/veteran-loch-ness-monster-hunter-968694\">Monster<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2018\/08\/20\/stevie-wonder-blames-global-warming-for-aretha-franklins-cancer\/\">death<\/a> of Aretha Franklin.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparently serious article, the New York Times declared Monday that climate change is compelling some albatrosses, which usually mate for life, to \u201cdivorce\u201d their partners. 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