Posted on 06/19/2018 5:34:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
David Inouye is an accidental climate scientist.
More than 40 years ago, the University of Maryland biologist started studying when wildflowers, birds, bees and butterflies first appeared each spring on this mountain.
These days, plants and animals are arriving at Rocky Mountain Biological Lab a week or two earlier than they were 30 years ago. The robins that used to arrive in early April now show up in mid-March. Marmots end their winter slumber ever earlier.
"If the climate weren't changing, we wouldn't see these kind of changes happen," Inouye said while standing on a bed of wildflowers that are popping up on the first day of May as marmots snoop around nearby.
You don't need a thermometer or a rain gauge to notice climate change, and you don't need to be a scientist to see it.
Evidence is in the blueberry bushes in Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond, the dwindling population of polar bears of the Arctic and the dying corals worldwide. Scientists have documented 28,800 cases of plants and animals "responding consistently to temperature changes," a 2008 study in the journal Nature said.
"Nature is extremely sensitive to temperature and nature is reacting to the warmer temperatures," said Boston University biologist Richard Primack. "The dramatic change is happening right in front of us."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Thirty five years later I returned to neighborhood and saw the sun shining on the north walls.
I asked a physicist at the university about it and he said that it could be caused by tectonic plate shifting or a slight change in the tilt of earth's axis. Either could cause planetary climate change.
“If you don’t trust the thermometers, throw them out,” Hayhoe said. “All we have to do is look at what’s happening in nature.”
and none of it’s going to get any better until the United States signs on to a UN accord, and everybody starts kicking in globally earmarked tax payments...then voila, it will all go back to normal...
Winters are long here in Montana ... and getting longer. Much of the state had well over 100% of average snow pack. 200% in my annual backpacking/fishing trip area, Bob Marshall Wilderness.
I remember camping with our family on the mile of ice that covered Ithaca, New York. I gently weep every time I think about the loss of all that wonderful ice. Now we have to live in a house built on DIRT! Filthy dirt, not clean ice. Those really were the days.
yeah, they were talking up the sea level rising in the next 40 years on the news yesterday, showing maps of low areas to be flooded, yadda yadda yadda,,
sea walls AND border walls needed now !!!
According to noted and distinguished scientist Hank Johnson, what you witnessed was a rotated land mass, perhaps by 180 degrees, probably caused by uneven weighting by the local population.
“At least five major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth’s history: the earliest was over 2 billion years ago, and the most recent one began approximately 3 million years ago and continues today (yes, we live in an ice age!). Currently, we are in a warm interglacial that began about 11,000 years ago.” https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/ice-ages-what-are-they-and-what-causes-them/
‘Adaptation, not a stagnant status quo, is how life on earth became what it is today.’
many on this forum would bitterly deny that statement...
‘...noted and distinguished scientist Hank Johnson’
ha ha ha...
Anybody taking a HighSchool class called “Science” can be assured of learning NOTHING “scientific”.
My bet is that “The Scientific Method” is nowhere to be found in the Text Book.
(Note: “Consensus” is NOT mentioned in “The Scientific Method”!)
I didn't get very far before I had to quit reading this drivel....
Maryland to Colorado is some commute for a second job.
My stars. How adaptable the flora and fauna are. Tell us please David...why is that a bad thing?
Yes, and love is in the air.
OR after more than 100 years, nature favored plants that bloomed earlier.
By definition, the climate changes.
Leave it to the liberals to latch on to that fact and make it a crisis.
I asked a physicist at the university about it and he said that it could be caused by tectonic plate shifting or a slight change in the tilt of earth's axis. Either could cause planetary climate change.
Hon, that was no physicist. LOL. There is no observable changes for THAT building regarding the exposure to sunlight on the north face of a building. If you are in Northern Michigan, the bottom of the north side of that building will never see sunlight (in our lifetimes). If you are in Panama, the shadows will move with the seasons and may shine on all sides of the building (near equator). . Humans figured this out 10,000+ years ago and invented a sundial to actually scientifically track that daily and seasonal event. LOL
Good article about Seth here: leftexposed.org/2016/05/seth-borenstein/
I don't have time to find a link. But, as I understand it, we have more warming to go before the ice comes back. We can expect more vibrant plant growth, higher oxygen levels, more live giving rain and a healthier planet over the next several thousand years.... if our understanding of geological history is an accurate indication of the future. Imagine how crops will grow year round in Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, etc. when they can plant, cultivate and harvest year round. Hell, Texas might be able to grow rice.
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