Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/05/2008 7:09:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, scientists say.
Tropical species are accustomed to living in a small temperature range and thus may be unable to cope with changes of even a few degrees, according to an analysis in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"There's a strong relationship between your physiology and the climate you live in. In the tropics many species appear to be living at or near their thermal optimum, a temperature that lets them thrive. But once temperature gets above the thermal optimum, fitness levels most likely decline quickly and there may not be much they can do about it," Joshua J. Tewksbury said in a statement.
The research was led by Tewksbury, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Washington and Curtis A. Deutsch, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Concern over global warming has largely focused on arctic species like the polar bear. But such animals may be accustomed to living in a wide range of temperatures, while there tends to be little change in the tropics, so there has been no need for species there to adapt.
"The direct effects of climate change on the organisms we studied appear to depend a lot more on the organisms' flexibility than on the amount of warming predicted for where they live," Tewksbury said. "The tropical species in our data were mostly thermal specialists, meaning that their current climate is nearly ideal and any temperature increases will spell trouble for them."
PNAS: http://www.pnas.org
This is dopey. Warming may be the greatest threat or the greatest boon. Folks haven’t presented any evidence pointing in either direction.
Wow. I’m terrified. Or not.
Serenity Prayer: God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
"The tropical species in our data were mostly thermal specialists, meaning that their current climate is nearly ideal and any temperature increases will spell trouble for them."
Nobody told me it was prayer meeting night at the Church of Gore.
Wow!
Guess it’s a good thing THERE HASN’T BEEN ANY WARMING FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS!!
However, there is much evidence that during the glacial period times were really tough for man and beast and forest and life. In actuality we are in a warming period of a glacial period. The ice age is alive and well in Antarctica and the Arctic. There is more probability of the earth becoming much colder in the near future and not warmer.
“Tropical species are accustomed to living in a small temperature range and thus may be unable to cope with changes of even a few degrees...”
What a bunch of crap!!!
Or not.
We really don’t know.
In fact, we’re just guessing.
And our guesses just happen to agree with the leftists who are paying us.
(sarcasm, but so true)
No proof necessary when you want to fan the flames of hysteria... you see some people will believe anything... and they will give lots of money to Al Gore to save themselves.
Quite frankly, I'm not too sure Al is even qualified to flush my toilet...
But will there be refreshments available?
Change, for sure. Been happin’ all over.
Latest Weather Channel Headline:
GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE GETS HOTTER!
Women, children and minorities hardest hit..........as with all invented crises.
listen stooopid... dint you get the memo??? warming ist kaput for the next ten years!!!
What will be the end cost in lives from resources wasted in the pursuit of the false science of global warming?
While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, scientists say.
Is this the global warming where the temperature goes up or the new one where the temperature falls?
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