http://penguinsunited.com penguins talk about global warming & climate crisis Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:33:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Forgive us for being out-of-touch for so long. We've just completed a 100-day workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation on Polar Melt Traumatic Stress Disorder PMTSD. Thanks to Angela Schrimsky and Donald-Peter Fredricksen of the Avian Therapy Center for leading the group. Unfortunately while we were talking, a large portion ... http://penguinsunited.com/2009/04/08/polar-melt-traumatic-stress-disorder/ Penguins throughout the world - as well their animals friends - are filled with hope as Americans head to the polls (we, of course, are at the pole but not the poll!) A vote for Obama is a vote for penguins and endangered species everywhere. There are animals ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/11/04/please-vote-because-penguins-cant/ We at Penguins United have been busy for the last month and have allowed much too much time to go by without checking in with you, our faithful readers. Burn out, I think you call it! We call it WPS - weary penguin syndrome. Emperor Penguins on Glacial Ice We ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/10/03/weary-penguin-syndrome/ Things are heating up - a penguin joke. James Hansen testified before Congress 20 years after his famous warning about Global Warming. Famous, at least, for penguins and polar bears. If I told you only two Congresspeople showed up to hear one of the world's greatest experts talk about ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/06/30/climate-criminals/ Sorry. Sorry. A heartfelt penguin apology for not writing sooner. We have been busy here in the land of ice and snow. Many young people write us asking what they can do to save the earth. Of course, none of us have gone to school, let alone college. We ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/06/10/save-the-earth-a-fair-tax/ Our home is cracking apart around us. Some of the Antarctic ice shelf just broke off. How big? For those of you Americans who have ventured to the city that calls itself the Greatest City in the world, it is 9x the size of Manhattan. And sticking ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/04/02/penguins-we-are-new-orleans/ Penguin 11 here. It's been awhile. Quite frankly several of us penguins were given DVD collections of "Lost" and we surrendered. We know something about living on an island or so we thought - anyway it has been fascinating to see what you humans do in a ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/02/25/king-penguins-long-live-the-kings/ If you are reading this, it's probably because you have been thinking about penguins, or about global warming and climate change, maybe wondering how we are doing, or maybe about your future. These are scary and complicated times for all of us. Adélie 422 walking - Photo: Geroge F. Mobley The ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/01/18/penguins-on-thin-ice/ http://penguinsunited.com/2007/12/31/penguin-new-year-new-hope/ Well there is the small victory to celebrate at Bali - the U.S. was frightened enough by the threatened boycott of its January conference to refrain from preventing an agreement. But from the point of view of the rest of the world - the non-humans of this world - it was ... http://penguinsunited.com/2007/12/18/bali-schmali/