Monday, February 11, 2008

Global warming to cause an insect "explosion" (while also extinguishing all life on Earth)?

Here.

1. If these insects are going to be so hungry because of the alleged nasty effects of carbon dioxide, why would their numbers explode?

2. Would insect diversity increase while numbers of birds/mammals/fish would crash? If so, why?

3. Would bees do well in this new scenario, or would the insect increases be very strictly limited to ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifnly the "bad" ones?

Update 1: Check out the headline from National Geographic News: "Ancient Global Warming Gave Bugs the Munchies".

The article includes this nugget:
Insects do better generally when it's warmer out, she added.
Update 2: More questionable "science" here, headlined "Warming temperatures and CO2 increase threaten leafy plants".

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