About a year ago, CNN climate warrior Bill Weir traveled 6,600 miles to Ushuaia, Argentina, to lament the use of fossil fuels before setting off for Antarctica to tag along with a group of whale scientists. On Friday, Weir joined CNN News Central to promote the new documentary that came from that trip and reveal that those scientists were studying whale excrement.
Weir told the trio of co-hosts that whales “are the biggest allies we have, literally the biggest allies on the planet, and it’s so good we saved them from oblivion because when I was a little boy, they were on the brink of extinction. The comeback of the humpback is one of the great stories of conservation, and a couple of years ago, some economists at the International Monetary Fund said, “Let’s figure out the value of a whale. What Earth services it provides over its 60-year life, $2 million–…
