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As the climate warms, snakes could slither north
Yale Climate Connections ^ | September 15, 2017 | By Eileen Mignoni

Posted on 09/15/2017 9:49:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Venomous snakes are among the most feared animals in the world, and they may start slithering into new places.

Yanez-Arenas: “So as our climate changes, so too will the potential for a species to expand their ranges and come in contact with people they never will have before.”

Carlos Yanez-Arenas is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2015, while a post-doc at the University of Kansas, he used climate models to predict where dozens of species of snakes will be able to live by 2050.

He found that with warmer temperatures, many snakes, such as copperheads and some species of rattlesnake, will be able to survive farther north than in the past. How far the snakes move will depend on how much the climate warms.

For example, if carbon emissions are limited and warming is minimal, the copperhead could move into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and parts of Illinois.

But if emissions are not reduced and warming continues unchecked, the venomous copperhead could be able to live in Michigan, New York, and parts of New England.

More snakes could mean more snake bites – that’s bad news for people who enjoy spending time outdoors.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; snakes; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The snakes already migrated to the North East (i.e. New York, CT, MA, etc). They’re called Liberals, Progressives, Marxists, A.K.A, Democrats.


21 posted on 09/15/2017 10:04:35 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: xzins

But maybe Yale will slither north. Just 367 miles to Montreal!


22 posted on 09/15/2017 10:06:33 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's down is up, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Soon there’ll be alligators and crocodiles in Bangor, Maine eating your lobsters.


23 posted on 09/15/2017 10:07:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’ve had Michigan Rattlers for longer than the Ojibwe have been saying “mishigamaa”.


24 posted on 09/15/2017 10:07:40 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When I was in the USAF, I was sent to Canada in winter. Other troops warned me to watch out for the snow snakes.

Joke was on them as I knew what a snow snake was.


25 posted on 09/15/2017 10:08:25 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Olog-hai

A friend in southern Ohio killed a Copperhead that was 39 inches long in his driveway. I asked him where the other one was. Let that sink in.


26 posted on 09/15/2017 10:09:07 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: Regulator
People who study the actual science of what's going on are leaning in the direction of a little ice age in the next 20 years. The agenda driven "global warming" scammers are so invested in that hoax that they insist on publishing the kind of tripe in this article. The only serious snake issues are from people dumping pets boas and anacondas into places like Florida. Non-native predators dropped into a rich source of food.
27 posted on 09/15/2017 10:10:01 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: DoodleDawg
You're right. Now the author is probably going to say "see I told you so".

Snakes of Pennsylvania: 21 species

28 posted on 09/15/2017 10:10:24 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In the political world, the snakes move from north to south.


29 posted on 09/15/2017 10:11:37 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Regulator
"Russia is having one of its coldest summers ever. Kinda doesn’t fit the meme, huh?"

Kinda does if the media keeps saying it does.

30 posted on 09/15/2017 10:11:47 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hitlery did move to new York.


31 posted on 09/15/2017 10:11:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (Victorious warriors WIN first, then go to war! Go TRUMP!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

***What? The Northern Copperhead has been in those states forever. ***
And especially think during the Civil War.


32 posted on 09/15/2017 10:12:05 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As a kid, back in the middle fifties, I was paid good money to shoot and kill rattlesnakes in the blue hills of what is now the peoples republic of Massachusetts.

My dad would drop me off at the Howard Johnsons in the early morning, just me, my .22 and a burlap bag to put the dead snakes in.

One year I got a big one, when I showed it to him he gave ma lesson in economics. He said “Bobby, that big snake kept you from being able to carry out five little ones, you get paid by the snake, not the pound.”

From then on I left many a big snake on the rocks and harvested more little ones.


33 posted on 09/15/2017 10:12:35 AM PDT by Bob Celeste
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too late! They've already reached Massachusetts!

34 posted on 09/15/2017 10:13:03 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Olog-hai
"What? The Northern Copperhead has been in those states forever."

Yeah, you'd think they would try to do a better job writing their propaganda, but then again, they're not scientists, they're propagandists and lying is what they do.
35 posted on 09/15/2017 10:13:37 AM PDT by Garth Tater (Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another danged Hillary Clinton thread!


36 posted on 09/15/2017 10:14:39 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

think=thick!


37 posted on 09/15/2017 10:15:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The rivers are full of crocodile nasties
and He who made kittens put snakes in the grass.

He’s a lover of life but a player of pawns -—
yes, the King on His sunset lies waiting for dawn
to light up His Jungle
as play is resumed.

The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune.”


38 posted on 09/15/2017 10:18:35 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah, they’ve always been here in PA,along with timber rattlers but don’t let the truth ruin a good fiction story.


39 posted on 09/15/2017 10:21:54 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What about alligators and crocodiles?

Unfortunately for the author, the erf is entering a period of COOLING.


40 posted on 09/15/2017 10:22:14 AM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
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