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Climate change 'makes birds shrink' in North America
BBC News ^ | 3/12/10 | Matt Walker

Posted on 03/12/2010 10:55:45 AM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: a fool in paradise

Drink spew alert!!!!


41 posted on 03/12/2010 11:32:01 AM PST by 4mybiz
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m sure they’re right but i always thought warm= greater size due to among other things,more food.


42 posted on 03/12/2010 11:32:57 AM PST by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: NormsRevenge

Climate change ‘makes birds shrink’ in North America shortly after a previous climate change made them shrink from dinosaurs...


43 posted on 03/12/2010 11:43:24 AM PST by PIF
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To: NormsRevenge
there is a general rule of thumb that animals tend to become smaller in warmer climates: an idea known as Bergman's Rule.

That's a premise easily disproven by McDonalds' rule. I live in a warm climate (southern CA) and when I'm eating McDonalds burgers in my parked car I'm besieged by flocks of pot-bellied sparrows and seagulls begging French fries and other greasy morsels. Some of those birds are getting hugh!

44 posted on 03/12/2010 11:57:05 AM PST by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: cartan

So the birds are losing some of their obesity.

You would think that would make liberals happy. Especially Michelle Obama.

Now, if she could just get ‘the children’ to eat like birds.


45 posted on 03/12/2010 11:58:12 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: F.J. Mitchell

Seems that snowbirds are getting bigger to


46 posted on 03/12/2010 11:59:05 AM PST by munin (Enki did it)
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To: NormsRevenge
No kidding This cold winter made my p_____ shrink.


47 posted on 03/12/2010 12:10:18 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: NormsRevenge

The fraud and dishonesty just keep on coming... (see words in caps below)

Headline:

“Climate change ‘MAKES birds shrink’ in North America”

In the article...

“Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is SUSPECTED as the cause.”

And they have the audacity to call this crap science?!!

What I SUSPECT is that the people that did this so-called study that arrived at this “conclusion” are bird brains. And I’m more confident of my conclusion than of theirs.


48 posted on 03/12/2010 12:10:39 PM PST by aquila48
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To: BJClinton
In biology, there is a general rule of thumb that animals tend to become smaller in warmer climates

Then explain dinosaurs.

They would say, "It is so obvious! Dinosaurs don't have thumbs!"

49 posted on 03/12/2010 12:20:52 PM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: cartan
On average, the decline in mass of spring migrants over the 46 year study was just 1.3%," says Dr Buskirk.

"For a 10g warbler that's a loss of just 130mg."

Yeah, but did they account for the bird's "Poopy time".

50 posted on 03/12/2010 12:23:09 PM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: DBrow

“The Medieval Warm Period”

They’ve now calling it the Medieval Warm Anomaly. And back in the Jurassic Era, hummingbirds were as big as semi trucks.


51 posted on 03/12/2010 12:25:22 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: TexGuy
"It is so obvious! Dinosaurs don't have thumbs!"

Silly me.
52 posted on 03/12/2010 12:38:12 PM PST by BJClinton (0bama is not the anti-christ. Satan wouldn't be such a screw up.)
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To: NormsRevenge

53 posted on 03/12/2010 12:54:08 PM PST by RedMDer (Recycle Congress in 2010, 2012... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Antropogenic Global Warming, a turdly serious problem, according to the infallible AlGore, history’s greatest scientist, by far surpassinmg Newton and Einstein, also, as I have irrefutabley detemined, causes flatulence and hemorroids. We all know that people from warm countries, like Mexico, indulge in HOT foods, which invariably cause flatulence (beans, as in “Blazing Saddles”) and hemoroids. Hence, as it warms, we will all begin eating hotter foods, thereby falling victims to those two horrible, odious ailments.


54 posted on 03/12/2010 12:55:16 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Bulwyf
how can the people who write this stuff be so blatantly stupid?

Global warming causes the hypothalamus to not be able to reduce core body temperatures adequately, so the warmer blood causes their brains to swell, putting increased pressure upon the prefrontal cortex, resulting in mass delusions, and the loss of 8.736% of IQ/decade.

55 posted on 03/12/2010 2:24:43 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (U.S. Citizen since 1946: “Made in the USA, by proud American workers!")
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To: NormsRevenge; Fractal Trader; tubebender; marvlus; Genesis defender; markomalley; Carlucci; ...
Ever wonder why you never stop hearing about studies finding GW responsible for everything from kidney stones to cannibalism to making birds shrink? Explains MIT's Richard Lindzen: "It's become standard that whatever you're studying, include global warming's effects in your proposal and you'll get your funding."

 



Dr. John Brignell's WARMLIST
~A complete list of things caused by global warming.~

56 posted on 03/12/2010 3:27:51 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: NormsRevenge

Would you like to see something else that shrinks over time?


57 posted on 03/12/2010 3:45:40 PM PST by tubebender (Tagline... I don't need no stinkin Tagline)
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To: munin

LOL! And staying longer, too. ;-)


58 posted on 03/12/2010 4:14:49 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell ( Global warming will freeze us all to death.)
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To: edcoil

Hummingbirds were ostriches when they hatched.


59 posted on 03/12/2010 4:17:48 PM PST by gitmo
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“Anomaly” just means “deviation from average”, don’t be tricked into the concept that “anomaly” means something wrong or out of kilter. The Warmists have used the scientific term freely, because the colloquial term means “wrong” or bad.

Yes, many hummingbird fossils have been misidentified as pterodactyls.

I looked at my old grocery receipts from 1973, the beginning of the Ice Age. Today, a “fryer” chicken is three pounds. Back then it was five. Tuna has been getting smaller too- back then, an eight-ounce can cost $0.70, but now the can is 6.2 oz and costs over $2, clearly global warming related. jens, though, have gotten bigger. My 1973 jeans, with embroidery on the bell part, are smaller than the straight-leg jeans I have now.


60 posted on 03/12/2010 4:22:45 PM PST by DBrow
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