Fast Climate Change Moves Slow Species: Scientific American Podcast
But maybe I shouldn't be so worried, after all, I remember when global warming was going to allow pythons to slither from Florida to San Francisco at a rate of 20 miles per month:They found that rattlesnakes, which are cold-blooded, deal with temperature changes by moving: their ranges have shifted about 2 meters a year to keep the snakes inside their comfort zone. Now, if global temperatures increase by another 1 to 6 degrees Celcius] over the next 90 years, as current models predict, rattlers could be forced to slither up to a thousand times farther. And the snakes may not have the legs for such a trip.
one of them has already slithered about 100 miles toward San Francisco...At 20 miles a month, a determined Burmese python from Florida could arrive in San Francisco as early as August 2020.
Does my recollection of the projected warming amounts deceive me? Since when was the projection as low as 1 degree for the end of the century? A little slithering room being prepared by the alarmists?
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