This can’t be good. Twenty-six dolphins who have been found dead on a British coastline appear to have “committed suicide”, according to a leading scientist. Instead of using power tools and lying down in front of lawn mowers ala The Happening, the dolphins have chosen the less cinematic but very unpleasant sounding death-by-eating-too-much-garbage-and-mud. “Very bizarre indeed” is how veterinary wildlife pathologist Vic Simpson described it, which I assume is British scientist-speak for “This is totally fucking freaky and horrifying.” The dolphins left no suicide note, nor had they been writing a lot of gloomy poetry about photographs in the rain and the sound of flowers crying. So the lingering question scientists can’t seem to answer is, why?
But the news isn’t all bad. It’s also worse: ScienceDaily reports that ocean temperatures have increased 50 percent more due to global warming than previous climate models suggested. Remember Al Gore and his power point presentation of doom and destruction? Well, that was the optimistic version.
Dolphins Found Dead Off Cornish Coast 'Committed Suicide' (Daily Mail)