Of whales, oil spills and naturally occuring bacteria (and cormorants and Jap O'Knees)

I want to explore ecological disaster from another perspective.

1) Whales swimming further north due to receding icecaps.
2) Naturally occurring bacteria thriving due to oil spills

1) Oops...I spelled whales w-a-l-e-s there for a bit...not with the dashes, that would be silly, but like the country o crooners and rugby players and only gays in the villageses.
Whales right? They get around. I'm going to make a bit of an uncorroborated statement here: I'm betting that they go pretty much where they want. They don't fly, so the sky is out. They don't walk around, so dry land is a no no. But I don't think they want that. I think it's generally accepted that whales were land mammals that were previously sea animals. So they got out of the water, strolled about a bit, and went back. I think that's what they want...where they want to be.
So right...it's pretty much 'the ocean'. That's where they hang. But which bits? Well, where they want, right? Where it's comfy. Where there's food and hopefully no Japs I reckon. Although I suspect they don't avoid the Japs any more than any other monkey in a boat. They don't know. We know.
I read some where once a while back that the whales are going more North than they used to, and that this is because the polar ice caps are receding. I don't know whether that's just because they can, or because there's more food, or because there are less Japs, but if that's true, it's true. They didn't previously, and now they do.
What if they like it?
Eh?
Global warming is a thing. I've discussed that here before, so I won't go into my stance in any detail now. It's a thing, but I wonder how much of it is us. Some of it is, absolutely. I just dispute that it's all us....or even...say, half. I don't know. Do you?
So, we're focusing efforts into reversing global warming and its residue.
So, I assume that means that the ice caps will be restored to their former glory.
I assume also then that the whale food will go, and all that swimming about and singing space will go(....and maybe the Japs will go back!)
So while the global warmists are bleating about our effect on the ecosystem and how we're changing environments, they/we might want to also consider that reversing it will do the same. The whales will have somewhere to go, which is fortunate. But it will also restrict that newfound liberty.
People like an argument, so I'll post one here for you: Whales don't think about that stuff.
They swim about thinking (whalish for): "Hmm...nice water. Bit peckish. Food! Nom noms! More food! Comfy. Nice."
Not stuff like: "Oh look! the back door's open, and I've got all that garden to play in.....wait, the back door's closed and now I can't go there...fucking monkeys with their opposable bits, think they're so clever with their harpoons and their floaty water devices all saving us and stuff...grumble, mutter..."

Here's a couple of other things: your dog doesn't know what you're talking about and your cat doesn't love you. Deal with it.
Harsh.

2) In the wake of the BP oil spill, I read this (which I have not substantiated):

Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said much oil had been "biodegraded by naturally occurring bacteria".

I don't know much about the nature of bacteria, or this bacteria specifically, but naturally occurring bacteria sounds as naturally occurring as naturally occurring cormorants and naturally occurring seals.
Just assume that girlies and hippies didn't only want to save the cute fluffy animals, and that every living thing was on the 'save' list, including naturally occurring bacteria. I suspect it's fairly standard for species (right word?) to thrive under ideal ecological circumstances. What if this naturally occurring bacteria thrived during this oil spill, and then we send out our trawlers and skimmers and chemicals and hippies with toothbrushes and detergent to clean up this spillage to save the cormorants and seals, and wipe out this happy colony of bacteria? Isn't that bad too? I'm pretty sure that all life on Earth started off as simple organisms such as bacteria.

I'm not advocating that we go spilling oil around to appease the naturally occurring bacteria. We spend our modern lives trying to eradicate bacteria in the kitchen, then we are encouraged to down ickle pots of bacteria laden yogurt each morning because it makes you...what? Digest better?
It does.
Does it?
Anyway, I'm off point.
I don't really have a point.

Over.