Sea lions leave Galapagos because of climate change?

Today we are enlightened by the BBC and its popular story of the poor, innocent sea lions, which are “endemic” to the famous Galapagos Islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, who have been driven out of their apparently pristine and untouched paradise by the evil clutches of climate change/global warming/global climate change/whatever the phrase now is (I’ve long given up trying to keep track). They have neglected to mention the possible other, and far more likely reasons, that the sea lions left and the increase in water temperature.

Is an earthquake what it takes to get debt cancelled?

Today we heard a pledge from G7 countries, namely the US, UK, France, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan, to “cancel all Haiti bilateral debt”. Although this is a great thing for Haiti, the question must be asked: Why does it take a huge natural disaster for the First World to cancel its debts to poor Third World countries?