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Climate change shrinks wild sheep: scientists
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Posted on 07/02/2009 4:12:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century. (AFP/File)
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:14:36 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: NormsRevenge
“The law of evolutionary theory says the brown, thick-coated ungulates should have got progressively bigger. “
Since when is theory, law?
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:16:06 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: NormsRevenge
As soon as I get out of bed, I continually snap my fingers: It keeps the elephants away. There! That proves cause and effect. Makes about as much sense.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:17:57 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:18:27 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: xcamel
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:19:36 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: NormsRevenge
OK, I’m finally on board if I can blame it for shrinkage.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:20:45 PM PDT
by
John W
To: NormsRevenge
What climate change? Global cooling?
Any conclusion made by correlating a factual observation with a faulty one is still faulty.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:21:08 PM PDT
by
dajeeps
To: NormsRevenge; xcamel; steelyourfaith; neverdem
Funny: TOTAL climate change right is less than 1/2 of 1/10 of ONE degree. And that change in temperature occurred from 1970 through May, 2009.
If you assume that the HOTTEST year “ever” was 1934, then there has been NO climate change that could have changed the sheep. If you take the “corrected” temperatures that Hansen's GISS have corrupted, then 1998 was “hottest” at a gain of 1/2 of one degree from 1970.
So, how does 1/2 of one degree make the sheep change?
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:21:27 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: NormsRevenge
The law of evolutionary theory says the brown, thick-coated ungulates should have got progressively bigger. A law? Theories, hypotheses maybe, but scientific LAWS must be proven.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:21:52 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: NormsRevenge
These “global warming” scientists are really an embarrassment. Havn’t heard about washing in Woolite?
To: NormsRevenge
I wonder which climate change they’re referring to - the warming one or the cooling one?????
Or does that even matter if they simply call it climate change?
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:23:47 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: NormsRevenge
Gee if this climate change stuff keeps up any longer the sheep will look like wooley rats with horns. We gotta do something about this folks!
Waddya say we spend another trillion or two bucks or so of our magic climate fixing American money to help the earth before it's too late.......
AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:25:42 PM PDT
by
R_Kangel
(`.`)
To: NormsRevenge
That island has interested me since seeing the movie “The Edge of the World” which was about St. Kilda or Hirta as the main island is called.
That very remote island had been occupied by humans for at least 2000 years but they finally gave up in the 1930’s after some bad crops and cold weather. The movie is about the abandonment of the island.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:28:48 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: NormsRevenge
The law of evolutionary theory says the brown, thick-coated ungulates should have got progressively bigger. I thought the law of evolutionary theory said that animal populations on islands with no major predators would become smaller, like the shetland ponies.
To: NormsRevenge
Well there ya are! It’s all that studying of the sheep that has made them shrink. If everybody would let’em alone they’de get big again.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:31:13 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
Actually, man is responsible for global warming. We started it with daylight savings time. All these years of adding that extra hour of sunlight did the trick.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:33:13 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
To: NormsRevenge
Wild sheep got shrinkage?!?
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:34:20 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
To: yarddog
It sounds pretty rugged out there.
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:35:58 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: NormsRevenge
Smaller sheep!!
OMG We’re all gonna die!!
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posted on
07/02/2009 4:37:09 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Uh, Mr. President, did you lose your contact lense OR ARE YOU PRAYING?)
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