Galapagos sea lions move 900 miles

[treesparrow]

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Sea lions abandon Galapogas Islands for warm Peruvian waters

A colony of sea lions, previously unique to the Galapagos Islands, has unexpectedly moved 900 miles south-east to an island just off the coast of Peru.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7193082/Sea-lions-abandon-Galapagos-Islands-for-warm-Peruvian-waters.html

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Typically global warming is implacated in this strange event, but perhaps it may have something to do with cooling of the Pacific waters around the islands and the El Nino -Southern Oscillation climate pattern possibly entering a cold phase (La Nina)

Whatever the cause it seems very unusual.

 

[Laura]

I would say that the rise in sea-water temp is due to undersea volcanic activity. That increases evaporation of the seas while the atmosphere continues to cool resulting in the moisture precipitating as snow - as we see happening. I'm not sure that I think the sea water will begin to cool any time soon as I think there is a lot of activity going on under the ocean and even under the arctic. Only time will tell.