No More Happy Feet?

News that the populations of Emperor penguins may be driven to extinction by climate change is timely (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28089988). It does seem that loss of the ice sheet is likely to have a considerable detrimental effects on these giant, flightless fish-eating birds. Strange that a popular animal featured in cartoons and acclaimed feature films (e.g. 'March of the penguins') is crunched by human activity.