I really don't know what to say.
"Blue whales' capacity to communicate has been reduced by 90 percent," she said."
This scares me. Does this person, this "Legal expert for the International Fund for Animal Welfare," know what it means to say, "...has been reduced by 90 percent?" Somehow, I doubt it. If you are dumb, is that what you become? A legal expert for an animal welfare group?
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This article could serve as an example of how not to write popular-science journalism. It isn't even internally consistent. The article switches back and forth as to whether it's about problems related to increased undersea noise or acidity allegedly caused by the greenhouse effect. One of the sources says that noise is reducing the whales' ability to communicate while the other one seems to be saying that increased acidity IMPROVES their communication ability by allowing their sounds to travel farther. Everybody's confused -- except, perhaps, the whales.
90% of the whales are confused too, apparently.
Terrible science journalism, yes, but also a lot of just general dumbness. Amazing how climate change is now an umbrella for absolutely every environmental issue.
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