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Rising Global Temperatures Cooking Lots of Lizards
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| Thursday, 13 May 2010
| RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Posted on 05/13/2010 11:37:55 AM PDT by Willie Green
Lots of leapin' lizards living no longer; researchers say global warming threatens reptiles
Sometimes it can be too darn hot even for a lizard.
Cold-blooded creatures that have to soak up the rays to get going might seem like the last animals you would expect to be threatened by global warming.
Well, you would be wrong, researchers say.
It turns out lizards are going extinct in many places, and scientists who have studied them say it's because of rising temperatures. The heats affects reproduction.
"The results were clear. These lizards need to bask in the sun to warm up, but if it gets too hot they have to retreat into the shade, and then they can't hunt for food," said Barry Sinervo of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He said he was "stunned and saddened" by the finding, reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcdisneynews; dnctalkingpoints; globalwarmingscare; hysteria; pravdamedia; savethelizards; thegreenmenace
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To: driftdiver
Can you photoshop Al oGre’s head onto that thing?
To: colorado tanker
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:05:11 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: Willie Green
Apparently, following this line of reasoning, there were NO lizards in the Cretaceous about 60 million years ago because the temperatures were much higher then.
To: Willie Green
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:08:11 PM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: driftdiver
Nice iguana pic.
Just curious, are any Keys Freepers reading this? How are the iguana populations doing down there :-)!? I’m heading down at the end of June. It’d be nice to not see those bastards everywhere :-)! I know the islanders hate them :-)!
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:08:23 PM PDT
by
edh
(I need a better tagline)
To: Red Badger
Yep, it was a cold winter in Florida, by their standards anyhow.
Wouldn't bother me if a hard freeze hit the Everglades and got rid of some of the invasive species taking hold down there. Some scary stuff in there.
To: Daffynition
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Good idea but my photoshot skills aren’t good enough.
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:09:44 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:09:49 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
To: colorado tanker
I saw a report on TV back then that one park ranger found about a dozen dead or dying pythons in one day!..............
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:16:29 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
To: colorado tanker
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:16:31 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: Disambiguator; DallasDeb
How does one conduct a census of lizard population? What a silly question. You mail them a form, of course! And if they don't return the form, you send out an army of obamabots to count them and see how many have mortgages from evil Wall Street bankers!............
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:18:37 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
To: Willie Green
Andrew Zimmern should be able to get half a season’s worth of shows out of this...
To: edh
I live in Tampa and we don’t have any iguana running wild here. I know a lot of the iguanas were killed, probably not all.
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:36:13 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Willie Green
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:36:17 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Never trust anyone who points their ass at God while praying.)
To: Willie Green
Oops. We'd better set up a planetary totalitarian regime ASAP to save meaningless lizards on a meaningless speck of dust somewhere in the vastness of a meaningless universe.
Isn't that the obvious solution?
To: RedMDer
He’s half lizard, half weasel. He’s a weasel lizard.
To: DallasDeb
Go to the nearest truck stop.
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:40:41 PM PDT
by
MestaMachine
(De inimico non loquaris sed cogites- Don't wish ill for your enemy; plan it)
To: Willie Green
If they looked a little further north (in the N. Hemisphere) of the prior habitat, they would find the missing lizards.
The warmists don't seem to realize that fauna and flora readily adapt to slow changes, moving to maintain optimum local conditions. They should read Darwin.
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:41:35 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: Texas resident
>> Or cut it vertically along the axis of the tail to make circular steaks.
The alligator must be dead for this step, yes? :-)
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posted on
05/13/2010 12:47:16 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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