Climate Change: A Whale of a Tale

The Essex, the ship Moby-Dick is based on, was sunk by a vengeful whale.

Call me Ishmael, for I’m about to tell a tale of p*ssed-off animals and the lesson we humans should take away — or at least consider — from events I’m about to describe. It begins with the story of White Gladis, an Orca whale who appears to have a bone to pick with sailing ships.

I doubt anyone can really understand what goes through the mind of a killer whale on the rampage, although scientists are…