Heavy-Hearted Teen Documentarian Captures Baffling Global Warming Consequence

Disappearing pack ice?  Check.  Animals tapped on floes?  Check.  Antarctic creatures apparently displaced some 10,000 miles from their natural habitat by the ravages of man-made climate change?  You betcha.

ON THE NBC nightly news there was a heart-throb report of an attractive British teen-ager who had skied across the North Pole with her father to demonstrate how the Arctic ice pack is receding in the face of global warming. Oh, horror. Oh, how terrible.

The pictures were beautiful: Her pretty face, her gentle smile, her soft voice, her snow-crusted parka, the blue skies, the brilliant white ice, the cascading chunks of ice calving from glaciers, the two penguins standing on an ice flow.

Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?

Tragic.

You can watch the news segment here.  The wayward penguins show up about 12 seconds in.

In fairness, the not-shot-anywhere-near-the-north-pole video may not be from the young lady's film, but rather stock Antarctic footage that an ill-informed NBC News producer threw up over Lester Holt's shoulder to zest up the segment a bit.

(HT: Stop the ACLU)