North American Birds in a Warming World

As is the case in many parts of the planet (see Birds in our Subject Index), the world's birds appear to be enlarging their ranges in response to global warming. Consequently, whereas climate alarmists claim that rising temperatures will tend to drive plants and animals of all kinds to extinction due to warming-induced range contractions, just the opposite would appear to be the case with the planet's birds, as it is with most of the world's other plants and animals (see our major report The Specter of Species Extinction: Will Global Warming Decimate Earth's Biosphere?). And we note that these range expansions are occurring in spite of the supposedly unprecedented global warming of the past few decades.

Low-Flow Characteristics of Northern Eurasian Rivers

Climate alarmists typically contend that global warming will result in more frequent and more severe floods and droughts throughout the world. From the things discovered by Smith et al., however, it is clear that over much of northern Eurasia, predictions of more drought seem rather off the mark, as daily low flows of the majority of northern Eurasian rivers have been increasing.