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As Winter Warms, Bears Can’t Sleep. And They’re Getting Into Trouble.
nytimes.com ^ | 5/4/2018 | Kendra Pierre-Louis

Posted on 05/12/2018 6:38:50 AM PDT by rktman

GENOA, Nev. — There are certain axioms about the natural world we learn as children. The sea is salty. Plants grow toward light. Bears hibernate in winter.

But as climate change leads to warmer winters, later falls and earlier springs — which can disrupt both food supplies and biological rhythms — American black bears are changing their hibernation routines, scientists say. In some cases, bears are not hibernating at all, staying awake all winter. In others, bears are waking from their slumber too early.

For every one degree Celsius that minimum temperatures increase in winter, bears hibernate for six fewer days, a study found last fall. As global temperatures continue to rise, by the middle of the century black bears may stay awake between 15 and 39 more days per year, the study said.

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To: rktman

If I remember it right, I think bears put on a lot of weight (fat) in the summer and fall, because game is scarce in the winter, especially for plant eaters. They use this stored fat to last them through the winter. Since there was no other food available in the winter, they would sleep, and live off the stored fat.

IF the “global warming” were to be true, then, it will just give them more time to gather good food, and they would go right on. I don’t think bears would have any knowledge of the liberal scam of “global warming”, so they just do, what they have to do. If it’s warm, they hunt, eat, and make little bears. If it’s cold, they sleep.

IF this article was supposed to jar us all in to believing in “global warming”, it has missed its mark.


61 posted on 05/12/2018 9:03:14 AM PDT by FrankR (If it wasn't for stupid ideas, the left would have no ideas at all.)
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To: rktman

early spring...what planet do these birds inhabit?


62 posted on 05/12/2018 9:08:04 AM PDT by albertabound
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To: faucetman

The Vikings were very smart people...They named a country “Greenland” to lure travelers there...Then, they Named a country they settled “Iceland” hoping to keep people away...


63 posted on 05/12/2018 9:22:29 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: rktman

Bears survived periods a lot warmer than we are experiencing now. What BS.


64 posted on 05/12/2018 9:41:36 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Seruzawa

You must mean like 800,000 years ago when we last saw See Uh O 2 levels this high. LOL!


65 posted on 05/12/2018 9:43:59 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

“But as climate change leads to warmer winters, later falls and earlier springs — which can disrupt both food supplies and biological rhythms — American black bears are changing their hibernation routines, scientists say”

I think they mean “political scientists”.

“Climate science” is just a branch of political science.


66 posted on 05/12/2018 9:49:47 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: P.O.E.
City slickers are experts in every subject, but couldn't survive without country Republicans providing their water, food, light, heat, electricity. The article's author in her natural habitat, lol:


67 posted on 05/12/2018 9:50:50 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Reeses

Know-nothing know-it-alls.

Ignorance is bliss, in their case, it’s the basis of their self-esteem.


68 posted on 05/12/2018 11:18:30 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: rktman
Soon, you might see a 2 bears running off with your pic-nick basket with a forest ranger chasing after them. It is as likely as this is... 😀
69 posted on 05/12/2018 12:15:15 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: rktman

I’m thinking this is good for bears? The only reason they sleep as long as they do is because there is no food. An earlier spring and a later fall means more time to eat.


70 posted on 05/12/2018 12:52:16 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: lucky american

They could watch kimmel or colbear on late nite.


71 posted on 05/12/2018 1:22:58 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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