Monday, September 06, 2010

Professor James Thomson thinks you're stupid: He suggests that carbon dioxide may have caused pollination levels to drop by 50%

Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants - Telegraph
"This serves as a warning to other countries," said Professor James Thomson at the University of Toronto, who carried out the research.
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"I believe that this is the first real demonstration that pollination levels are getting worse. I believe it is a significant decline. I believe the pollination levels have dropped by as much as 50 per cent.

"Bee numbers may have declined at our research site, but we suspect that a climate-driven mismatch between the times when flowers open and when bees emerge from hibernation is a more important factor."
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Prof Thomson began his long-term studies in the late 1980s after purchasing a remote plot of land and building a log cabin in the middle of a meadow full of glacier lilies.
Climate Change affecting Bees
"If these factors are changing, subtle dislocations of bees and flowers seem plausible," said Prof Thomson.

"Further research is needed to see whether the trend continues, and what might be driving it."

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