Should be a good year for tourists along the California coast, what with this tabloid headline screaming from the Wall Street Journal:
Weird, Blob-Like Creatures of El Niño Invoke Horror Along Pacific
"A parade of unusual critters has followed the warmer water north, both because of the emerging El Niño and an earlier weather phenomenon—which scientists, somewhat confusingly, have dubbed “the blob”—that has been heating up a portion of the Pacific Ocean over the past two years.
There were the millions of pelagic red crabs, which carpeted beaches from San Diego to Santa Cruz, and lizardfish that look like reptiles.
California sea hares, sailfish, marlins, oarfish and bigeye scad also have migrated north. Even some native species are acting strangely. The humpback whales that normally migrate to Mexico in the winter haven’t left Monterey Bay in over a year."
The yellow-bellied sea snakes are invading Venice beach!
And wedge-rumped stormy petrels wake the dead with awful screech.
Pelagic crabs and sea hares fight it out along the coast;
the marmots in the mountains with long napping are engrossed.
The weather's topsy turvy, that's why animals rebel
against their wonted habitat in dingle and in dell.
Man has trifled long enough with greenhouse gasses, so
like Titania's monologue the seasons boisterous grow.
El Nino threatens to engulf the Golden State with doom,
while round the world the glaciers melt and murrain poxes bloom.
It would take a Shakespeare to describe our folly right,
as the purple mollusks creep upon us in the night!
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