NYT admits that CO2 levels and seal populations don’t correlate well: ‘Seal populations declined from 1950 to 1972 and then gradually recovered from 1973 to 2000’
'In correspondence with to patterns of the North Atlantic Oscillation, seal populations declined from 1950 to 1972 and then gradually recovered from 1973 to 2000. 'It's interesting to see how the abundance of animals tends to fluctuate in sync with the North Atlantic Oscillation'