"Can we blame THIS on Global warming?" Topic

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Come on. Use your imagination.

Why not they are blaming everything else on Global Warming/Climate Change.

How do they know it's not a fashion choice-- just the latest fad among teenage seals?

They are tired of the elephant seals getting all the attention.
So they're Macgyvering up some trunks so they to get to be made famous by David Attenborough too.

From the topic heading I'll invoke Betteridge's Law and say no.

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Still, an odd development.

The eels live in little crevices and so on. The monk seals root around for food in different little crevices. The climate changes, the eels start to live in the other crevices, monk seal runs into eel.

"Dude, I got an idea, we are *totally* going to be internet famous."

So it's partially climate change, partially internet.

Maybe the seals exhale through their noses as they approach the surface, and since the ocean temperatures have risen a fraction of a degree they are opening their nostrils a few dozen centimeters early during the ascent, just as they pass the eels. The eels, confused by the whole "celsius/centigrade" thing accidentally swim into the seal noses.

Or the two creatures weren't in the same environment until global warming killed the coral or something and now they're in the same biome and haven't learned how to avoid each other yet.

What's really strange is that CNN wrote a science article that doesn't include the words "climate", "global", "temperature", "warm", or "greenhouse". Usually we don't have to connect things to climate change on our own.

Try reading Scientific American without the conclusion that all bad things can be blamed in climate change. Even black holes colliding or comets hitting Jupiter. (Oh wait. That was CNN…)

Seriously, I'm getting less "It's all a conspiracy!" denial/skepticism and more "Well, maybe". But still.

I think Andrew nails it in his first two sentences.