Friday, August 19, 2011

It's a stampede: Plants and animals are allegedly fleeing CO2-induced heat at a rate of 20 cm per hour

A New Study Shows That Plants and Animals Are Moving Rapidly in Response to Climate Change - Climate hoax promoter Bryan Walsh - TIME.com
Regardless of what Rick Perry and the rest of Republican presidential candidate field believe (except for you, Jon Huntsman), climate change is real and it's happening...In a study published in the August 18 Science, researchers in Britain and Taiwan found that species are moving in response to global warming up to three times faster than previously believed.
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As York University conservation biologist Chris Thomas says, climate change is putting plants and animals on the run:
These changes are equivalent to animals and plants shifting away from the Equator at around 20 cm per hour, for every hour of the day, for every day of the year. This has been going on for the last 40 years and is set to continue for at least the rest of this century.
...An influential 2004 paper in Nature estimated that up to 1/3 of the world's plants and animals could be committed to extinction by 2050 because of climate change. But those conclusions have been disputed
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There could be 9 billion human beings on the planet by 2050—a plant that will almost certainly be warmer, with a less stable climate.

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