Australian Scientist Dismisses Japanese Minke Whale Research

A marine scientist said that the findings Japanese scientists released about Minke Whales is flawed. Japan has been carrying out routine "scientific" killings of whales since a global moratorium against whaling was declared in 1986.  The killings have been criticized by most Western Nations, as it has been increasingly obvious that science was just a front whaling.

Japan tried to put a rest to the criticism by  releasing a report that Antarctic Minke Whales have lost 9 percent of their blubber in the two decades Japan has been doing lethal research. 

Japanese scientists claimed that the blubber reduction is due to krill numbers dropping due to global warming and humpback recoveries.

Dr. Gales, a marine scientist in Australia said "The type of statistics they use are relatively simple, there are some other statistical models they could have used to more robustly test whether this trend is really real." 

Dr. Gales went even further saying  "Even if the findings about blubber are correct, the reasons given are spurious. It's an incredibly simplistic interpretation and there are many others that would be probably be vastly more plausible.If there is a real decline in blubber then the reasons for that are much more varied and it could be a whole range of things that have nothing to do with the amount of krill and whales." 

I dont think it surpises anyone that the research is flawed, and the reasons given-current hot word global warming, and there being too many whales- are probably not right even if their findings are correct.