By Andrew Bolt
Of all the lame excuses to unite anti-whalers and warming worriers:
A century of commercial whaling has released around 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — that’s equivalent to burning more than 50,000 square miles of temperate forest or 128,000 large sport-utility vehicles driving for 100 years.
Those are the findings of a study by U.S. scientists from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute unveiled by Andrew Pershing from the University of Maine at the Ocean Sciences meeting this week…
When a whale dies of natural causes, its body sinks to the seabed, transporting the carbon stored in it to the deep sea, away from the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Harpooning one, however, can release the carbon directly into the atmosphere, thus intensifying climate change…
Whales, which Pershing says are the “forests of the ocean,” store carbon in their bodes and the gas can be released when they are killed.
Climategate gives this news a brisk fisking.
UPDATE
The inescapable conclusion from this study is that dead elephants should be thrown into the sea.
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