Posted on 09/27/2011 4:42:17 PM PDT by SJackson
Before the end of the century, Yellowstone National Park could experience summers that feel like Los Angeles’s, according to a report released Tuesday. These warming temperatures will imperil everything from native cutthroat trout to aspen forests and the $700 million in annual economic activity that they and other gems in the park generate by attracting tourists, the report said.
The report, the first evaluation of how climate change will affect the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, is a joint project of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a nonprofit that advocates for carbon emission reductions by drawing attention to the likely consequences of climate change, and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, a conservation organization concerned with the park and the land around it.
The authors used two warming scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, one based on a medium-to-high-range level of carbon emissions in the future and another one based on a lower set of carbon emissions.
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How ‘bout, “How Would a Yellowstone Eruption Affect the Climate?”
I was in Yellowstone the end of June. There was still 4+ inches of snow on the ground in the mountain passes on the south end of the park and we had snow flurries two nights.
ML/NJ
They have to be members of a bizarre nature cult or something.
Well climate changes, I've no doubt of that. Human causation is a different issue. The author is correct that the busy season at Yellowstone is summer. If warming increases the length of Yellowstone's summer economic season, it would seem to me that would stimulate economic activity, not damage it, but what do I know. Leslie should remember that our future is based on a three letter word, J-O-B-S
If Yellowstone erupts we won’t have to worry about the climate.
I went to Yellowstone at end of last summer.
Does Old Faithful ring a bell?
These hot springs are groundwater fed I believe.
The beautiful cyanobacteria can thrive in hot water.
NASA is interested in studying them as analogue to the extreme environment
of other planets.
So that won’t change. These people are just idiots!!
They don’t know what they are talking about.
I won’t take that bet. Perhaps the author will.
That'll do a lot more than human carbon and ruminant methane combined. And it will damage tourism.
How an Asteroid Strike Could Hurt Yellowstone National Park.
It will probably wipe out life in North America.
Yellowstone is classified as a Super Volcano
When they go, you go.
The Absarokee Beartooth Mountains had 350% snowpack last year, causing the Yellowstone and its feeder rivers to flood this spring. Since we are moving to Montana in 2013, I expect the winters to continue to be colder. It’s just my luck.
Some more “extremely short-sighted” alarmism from the eco-wackos. They expouse the principle of climactic/tectonic/geophysical stasis in the most horrific - and non scientific - terms they can invent in order to further their control agenda.
Facts are species come, thrive, then decline - or adapt - in response to changing conditions of environment. In the East I use the example of the common seagull. Once rarely seen inland its now a plague around every FF joint/mall and garbage dump a hundred miles from its former shoreline habitat ! Many species of raptors have adapted to our cites - with their large prey populations and ready nesting sites - with a zeal ! >PS
Operative word: “Could”. All kinds of things “could” happen. This is the usual ecobull.
ROFLMFAO!!! Thanks!
I hope so. One of the coldest spots in the country.
Some “scientists” need to ask, and ask themselves, what were the conditions in the Yellowstone area like when Greenland was green, when the “Norse” settled Greenland? Did it (life at Yellowstone) survive?
I wouldn’t presume the author is a scientist.
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