Another round of “penguins are facing extinction from climate change!” stories has just appeared in the press, all based on a new paper by Peter Fretwell.

But the real story is far more complicated and far less catastrophic. -Robert Onfray
Peter Fretwell is not a zoologist. 

He’s a cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey who became involved with Emperor Penguins when satellite imagery allowed him to detect colonies from space, not by counting birds directly, but by spotting large stains of guano on the ice...

• Except the evidence simply doesn’t support that conclusion...
• The real crisis here isn’t with the penguins. 
• It’s with how science is reported.