Current Event #2

I was looking on washingtonpost.com when an article entitled, "On the Sunny Beaches of Brazil, A Perplexing Inrush of Penguins," caught my eye. The penguins were washed by ocean currents more than 2,000 miles north from their homes in southern Argentina near the bottom of the world. Every year a few penguins get washed ashore, but this year over 1,000 peguins have turned up in Brazil. Locals are making an effort to help these penguins by taking care of them, and even trying to ship them home. I am very worried about global warming, and I wondered if it could have anything to do with this phenominon. Sure enough, as I was reading the article mentioned climate change and its implication in melting polar ice caps. The penguins, who swim North looking for food, have stopped turning around soon enough because of the colder water temperatures. They then get pulled to far North, to Brazil, by the ocean currents. Unfortunately, there is not a firm scientific grasp of where and why currents end, so it is hard to find a definate cause and/or solution.