The Guardian recently ran a story claiming a colony of penguins were trapped and killed by a runaway iceberg, a byproduct of global warming. The problem: none of it was true. That's according to the Daily Beast, which writes today that major news outlets were so eager to attribute the colony's death to global warming and a titanic-sized iceberg, they didn't actually bother to read the study. One research ecologist called it "nuts" that some news outlets were trying to link the 'missing' penguins to climate change.
Whether it was CNN or The Telegraph or Examiner.com, the reports of their deaths were greatly exaggerated (with apologies to Mark Twain). That's because the actual research paper never said the penguins were killed or trapped by an iceberg, or that global warming was behind the iceberg that somehow lead to their demise. As Dr. Michelle LaRue, a research ecologist at the University of Minnesota told the Daily Beast, "Maybe these birds moved. Maybe they died. There’s multiple scenarios that could’ve happened here. But nowhere in the paper said there was death and destruction.," she added.
Source: Examiner