Jesse Rogerson

And so what these scientists, they're worried about the penguins too.

So they went down, they set up a whole bunch, they had these all like 70 time-lapse cameras.

So they were like, set up all these cameras near the breeding grounds of these various species of penguins, specifically the Adelie, the Chinstrap, and the Gentoo.

And they were just monitoring, they started monitoring in 2012, and they were looking at where they set up their breeding grounds, when they do it, how long it lasts, the number of chicks, all that stuff, right?

All the stuff that goes with breeding.

And over this 10-year time span of tracking it, what they noticed is that as things got warmer, all three of the species they were tracking started doing their nesting and their breeding earlier and earlier and earlier, so much so that some of them were as much as 24 days earlier than normal in the spring.

Is that a bad thing?

Well, it depends on your species.

So there's, for example, the Gentoo's are actually kind of flourishing here.

So the Gentoo penguins, they they're more able to set up breeding grounds in a variety of spaces.

So they they're less worried about like having ice.

or having open rock or whatever they can they could do it anywhere and they also eat a larger variety of food so when they shift earlier in the year they they can just adapt to what food is available they can adapt to what nesting grounds are available and they actually are flourishing but they're doing that at the expense of a couple of the other species that require the specific uh

type of like the ice they they do their nesting on the ice they eat a specific kind of fish that is only available and with the gentoo's um sort of in invading that that niche that ecological niche it's now pushing out other penguin species so the short answer is is that some are doing good some are doing bad and the ones that are doing bad are the ones that have specific needs

Exactly.

The biggest problem with climate change in general is disruption, and we don't know the effects.

You've heard of the food web.

Nature is so interconnected, and it's such a delicate balance.

And there's gives and takes all over the place, and nature is able to correct that.

But when we enforce an outside variable of massive change of climate on a short timescale, that has effects that we cannot model.

We just can't.