Tom here's some more evidence for you, but we'll have to file this as 'climate change' rather then 'global warming'. First Michigan Wolverine spotted in 200 years It is now limited mostly to northern Canada, Idaho and Alaska, with sightings in a few other states, but its last confirmed sightings in Michigan were by fur traders in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The appearance is "up there with having a caribou or a polar bear turn up," Department of Natural Resources spokesman Brad Wurfel said Wednesday. "It's unprecedented."
Oh and just in case you were thinking this is some aberation which only applies to the limited environment of Michigan, subject as it is to that mysterious but often sited "lake effect" cold (as if that were somehow different then climate?); Elusive wolverine makes its first Sierra appearance in years. The last confirmed Sierra wolverine was shot as a scientific specimen in 1922. Last year, a team of scientists(another "consensus" formed after years of careful study) reported that the wolverine – a chocolate-brown weasel the size of a border collie but as vicious as a grizzly bear – had apparently vanished from the Sierra long ago, squeezed out by human activity. Now one has been found in the Tahoe National Forest north of Truckee.
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Tom here's some more evidence for you, but we'll have to file this as 'climate change' rather then 'global warming'.
First Michigan Wolverine spotted in 200 years
It is now limited mostly to northern Canada, Idaho and Alaska, with sightings in a few other states, but its last confirmed sightings in Michigan were by fur traders in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
The appearance is "up there with having a caribou or a polar bear turn up," Department of Natural Resources spokesman Brad Wurfel said Wednesday. "It's unprecedented."
Oh and just in case you were thinking this is some aberation which only applies to the limited environment of Michigan, subject as it is to that mysterious but often sited "lake effect" cold (as if that were somehow different then climate?);
Elusive wolverine makes its first Sierra appearance in years.
The last confirmed Sierra wolverine was shot as a scientific specimen in 1922.
Last year, a team of scientists(another "consensus" formed after years of careful study) reported that the wolverine – a chocolate-brown weasel the size of a border collie but as vicious as a grizzly bear – had apparently vanished from the Sierra long ago, squeezed out by human activity.
Now one has been found in the Tahoe National Forest north of Truckee.
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