Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Everybody panic: CO2 is allegedly causing polar bears to eat snow goose eggs, which will cause snow geese and polar bears to go extinct!

And by the way, there are also way too many snow geese, and it's your fault!

Goose eggs could help polar bears survive global warming
A closer match in the bears' time onshore or the geese's incubation periods could easily have resulted in the bears driving the geese to extinction, which would likely sign spell their species's doom as well.
2008: Millions of snow geese imperil fragile ecosystem - CSMonitor.com
Far-northern breeding grounds are devastated. A major culprit: expanded farming in US Midwest.
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Lesser snow goose populations had quadrupled since the 1970s. So many geese were arriving at their summer breeding grounds that they were eating not just plant shoots, but roots as well.
The non-interventionist camp argued that goose numbers would naturally return to an equilibrium once the food ran out. But others feared that continued overgrazing would irrevocably damage the ecosystem. Humans had to intervene, they said.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Geese crap on my golf course. The fewer the better.
Lemon