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How global warming could cause animals to shrink ( Honey, I shrunk the copepods)
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| September 27, 2011
| Anthony Watts
Posted on 09/27/2011 12:24:34 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the Queen Mary, University of London , there was shrinkage, of plankton no less. I’m sure it’s easy to extrapolate that right up to the top of the food chain.
Planktonic copepod Image: Wikipedia
How global warming could cause animals to shrink
The way in which global warming causes many of the world’s organisms to shrink has been revealed by new research from Queen Mary, University of London.
Almost all cold-blooded organisms are affected by a phenomenon known as the ‘temperature-size rule’, which describes how individuals of the same species reach a smaller adult size when reared at warmer temperatures. But until now, scientists have not fully understood how these size changes take place.
Writing in the journal The American Naturalist, Dr Andrew Hirst and colleagues from Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences explore this unusual shrinking effect in more detail, and show conclusively how it occurs.
Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the study was carried out using data on marine planktonic copepods. These tiny crustaceans are the main animal plankton in the world’s oceans and are important grazers of smaller plankton and a food source for larger fish, birds and marine mammals.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: climachange; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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To: TigerLikesRooster; landsbaum; Signalman; NormsRevenge; steelyourfaith; Lancey Howard; ...
Uh....what about the Dinosaurs???
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:27:16 PM PDT
by
ken21
(ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Insert Seinfeld reference here ____________________________.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:28:49 PM PDT
by
txroadkill
(Ghandi would have smacked 0bama in the head)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...Noticed that this morning standing at the loo...
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:34:33 PM PDT
by
gargoyle
(...This looks like a good fight, deal me in...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought the earth hasn’t technically warmed in the last 12 years or so?
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:37:43 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: ken21
But....it’s a scientific study...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
SHRINKAGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: GeronL
The “Teams” measurements say it has...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We might finally be able to get pot-bellied elephants without having to splice pig and elephant DNA.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:41:23 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Compare "Delay is preferable to error" - Thomas Jefferson // "Pass this bill now!" - Barack Obama)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They shrink some in the skillet—so I guess.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:42:10 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; golux; proud_yank; Bockscar; grey_whiskers; WL-law; IrishCatholic; ...
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:45:57 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Why isn’t that a good thing, according to the usual PC thinking?
Shrinking people and animals would be almost as effective as aborting them to reduce the population. They’d take up less room, eat less food, and do less damage to the environment.
So, why would a greenie think that was a bad thing?
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:59:11 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Crazy as this may sound. I breed these guys. They are food for some reef fish and corals. They can't really get much smaller than they are. They are the size of a pin head.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
09/27/2011 1:08:34 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(SP/XX12: Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: cableguymn
Crazy as this may sound. I breed these guys. They are food for some reef fish and corals. They can't really get much smaller than they are. They are the size of a pin head. WOW!
They're REALLY as big as Obama?
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posted on
09/27/2011 1:09:36 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Obama - Wear The Fail!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’ve noticed how those crocodiles at the north pole are much larger than the ones in australia.
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posted on
09/27/2011 1:09:45 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Sacajaweau
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Imagine how BIG they would have been if not for that pesky heat.
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posted on
09/27/2011 1:19:26 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: cableguymn
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