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Climate change could wipe out butterfly populations
Summit County Voice ^ | June 2, 2012 | by Bob Berwyn

Posted on 06/02/2012 6:23:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming is expected to result in localized extinctions of up to one-third of all butterfly species.

A recently published study concluded that butterflies which tend to emerge later in the year or fly higher in the mountains are probably more vulnerable becayse they have evolved to deal with a shorter window of opportunity to reproduce.

The findings have implications beyond just the survival of individual butterfly species, since their absence or presence has effects on pollination and other functions of herbaceous ecosystems.

“Insects and plants are at the base of the food pyramid and are extremely important, but they often get less attention when we are studying the ecological impacts of climate change,” said Javier G. Illa-Wanker, with the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University.

The research was done by Illa-Wankers’s group in the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. It examined 32 butterfly species for five years at various elevations in a Mediterranean mountain range, and the delays in flight dates that occurred as a result of elevation change.

(Excerpt) Read more at summitcountyvoice.com ...


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KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We have had a major influx of Butterflies this year...hundreds of them! This article is total Bull Merd.


21 posted on 06/02/2012 7:16:42 AM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: stonehouse01

That’s Josef Goebbels.
(Meant to reflect the relentless propaganda of AGW,etc.)


22 posted on 06/02/2012 7:18:16 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Climate change could wipe out butterfly populations"

I say good. I am tired of the little buggers flapping their wings over there in China and causing all these Hurricanes and storms.

Enough is enough!

23 posted on 06/02/2012 7:22:01 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Carl LaFong

Relentless propaganda - maybe my new tagline?

elaborate on AGW - I am not familiar with the term


24 posted on 06/02/2012 7:22:01 AM PDT by stonehouse01 (Equal rights for unborn women)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Then bunnies and butterflies had better ‘nut-up’ and grow a pair if they wanna live.


25 posted on 06/02/2012 7:24:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Mad Dawgg

Thank you for the laugh


26 posted on 06/02/2012 7:24:14 AM PDT by stonehouse01 (Equal rights for unborn women)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

You are doing a public service..... I know a large orchard that wants and encourages weeds in between the fruit trees. The flowering weeds attract the pollinators, bees and such, the fruit trees need


27 posted on 06/02/2012 7:24:27 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I need more coffee. At first glance I read his name as Ima-Wanker.


28 posted on 06/02/2012 7:26:00 AM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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To: Gaffer

don’t forget the chipmunks


29 posted on 06/02/2012 7:26:37 AM PDT by stonehouse01 (Equal rights for unborn women)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its all due to a recent increase in unicorn farts. Should you encounter any unicorns, destroy them on sight.


30 posted on 06/02/2012 7:27:38 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Christ Jesus Victor, Ruler, Lord and Redeemer!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Global warming is expected to result in localized extinctions of up to one-third of all butterfly species.

When it actually happened as expected I'd burn all my cash in tribute to the alarmist...being right about global warming for the first time

I think I'm pretty safe here...

31 posted on 06/02/2012 7:33:04 AM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Adapt or perish.

Called “natural law”.


32 posted on 06/02/2012 7:36:42 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they could just get the butterflies, cows and Canadian Geese to stop crapping all over the place we wouldn’t have this problem.


33 posted on 06/02/2012 7:47:08 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>>> ... butterflies which tend to emerge later in the year or fly higher in the mountains are probably more vulnerable becayse they have evolved to deal with a shorter window of opportunity to reproduce.

First they make a claim, after the study, they still use the language ‘could wipe out’, ‘are probably more vulnerable’, ....

That’s no scientific study. Nobody in a sciece field would write that “conclusion”.

Shameful how ‘science’ is being used.


34 posted on 06/02/2012 7:53:49 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: ops33
Since our flowers came out in the spring we have noticed an over abundance of butterflies, many more than normal. Small, large, different colors, butterflies I’ve never seen. A joy to sit and watch.

Look for your garden to be attacked by a lot of caterpillars later this year.

35 posted on 06/02/2012 8:01:43 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Grasping at fairy dust.


36 posted on 06/02/2012 8:10:29 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Fluffy bunny population also affected."

You are right!

I heard that it had already wiped out ALL of the unicorns. :-(

"Gloom, Despair and Agony on me!"

37 posted on 06/02/2012 8:11:33 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is there anything Global Warming cannot do?


38 posted on 06/02/2012 8:14:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Grasping at fairy dust.

The whole argument is specious.

Name one insect that humans have been able to eliminate.

Years of pesicides from DDT to Chlordane couldn’t eliminate termites.

Cockroaches have been around longer than dirt..fire ants anyone, how about cabbage lopers, the colorado cucumber beetle, the dreaded stink bug..

Pesticides aimed at them with massive spraying couldn’t kill them.


39 posted on 06/02/2012 8:14:24 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: stonehouse01
"Thank you for the laugh"


40 posted on 06/02/2012 8:19:46 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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