Posted on 09/14/2014 6:55:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
By 2080, birds like the northern saw-whet owl, the scarlet tanager and the Baltimore oriole could all but disappear from Pennsylvania.
Climate change is expected to shrink and shift northward the ranges of these and hundreds of other species across North America, according to a groundbreaking National Audubon Society study.
Citizen science was crucial to this report. Audubon scientists relied on tens of thousands of observations from the U.S. Geological Survey’s North American Breeding Bird Survey, along with Aubudon’s own Christmas Bird Count.
It combined these observations with historical climate data and climate changes predicted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment, Audubon spokeswoman Agatha Szczepaniak said. IPCC is still finishing its Fifth Assessment.
The result is a tool anyone can use to learn how birds are likely to respond. Users can choose their state and search birds based on their names and the percentage of summer and winter ranges lost.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes-tribune.com ...
Audubon trying to scare up more donations.
Real climate change will do what it always has done. It will produce speciation as adaptations occur to the change.
Darwinian processes will continue to occur as they always have. Existing species are the reflection of current conditions.
Scranton worrying about birds is like a stage 4 cancer patient worrying about a dark freckle.
Can bunny rabbits and puppies be far behind?
THE SKY IS FALLING!
#ACCURACY
Audubon is just another once good organization that is now nothing more than a shill for the commie EnviroTards.
If they a publish garbage like this with a straight face, how can anything they say be considered credible?
Good. If their ranges are more compact, it means I don’t have to walk as far or go as many different when I’m bird hunting.
Won’t shrink it as much as wind turbines will.
It is the availability of food and the lack of predators that is shifting bird ranges. These are caused directly by human activity. Weather can also effect bird behavior, but not “anthropomorphic climate change”, it does not exist.
Alway fascinating how all of their models predict negative effects.
If warmer weather is bad for birds, then colder weather must be better for birds, right?
I suspect not.
I thought domestic cats were the #1 threat? Cat people offended.....not donating?
Climate always changes, the change never stops. Where I am sitting was once under Lake Michigan. It was once under an ice sheet. It was once lush jungle. It may once have been arid and dry.
All these things happened before we learned about fire. Therefore I say; Gore-Bull Warming.
You don’t say?
That depends if you are a penguin or not. When the ice caps melt, there is no place else to go. /s
What can’t global warming do? It’s almost magical in its power do things.
At least they said will instead of maybe this time. That’s like going all in with an 8 high in poker
The people blaming Man for controlling the weather are the peons
following the Cult leader to the Comet.
Hey Autobahn!
Which change....colder or warmer?
Bingo!
Amazing, isn't it, how many organizations and educational institutions are jumping on the "Climate Change" gravy train? (After they realized that the "Global Warming" train is a shuttle, running both ways, Warming-Ice Age)
Much like one of those TV commercials for the "We are compassionate lawyers, please buy us a ticket on the "Asbestos/Mesothelioma/GM-Ignition Switch/Testosterone-Replacement-Therapy Gravy Train"
Scumbag opportunistic promulgators of lies.
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