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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: Willie Green
To: Willie Green
But there's been no warming for 10 years!
Aww why let the facts get in the way of a good sob story.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:39:31 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Willie Green
So when can we expect the Geico gecko to go TU?
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:40:07 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Willie Green
Apparently there is one born every second, as opposed to the minute that ‘Ol PT claimed....
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:40:14 AM PDT
by
cardinal4
(In Obama Land, it is racist to be white..)
To: Willie Green
Sounds like a lot of B.S. Chances are they are turning in to lunch for something else!
To: Willie Green
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:41:03 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
To: Willie Green
So all we have to do is round up the lizards and send them to starving people where they will cook on their own? Hot lunch!
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:41:24 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Willie Green
Bring on the fries and tarter sauce.
Lizard.....It’s what’s for dinner.
And it’s the other white meat.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:42:29 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Outlaw fisherman)
To: AU72; Revolting cat!
It's been all downhill since the Lizard King died.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:42:50 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
To: a fool in paradise
Hey, what a coincidence... today, right here on FR, I read that Little Orphan Annie was on the verge of extinction!
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:42:56 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: Willie Green
Thats funny we lost a whole bunch this year, here in sunny Florida due to extreme cold.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:42:58 AM PDT
by
DeaconRed
(I have had all I can stands and I can't stands NO MO--Call me Popeye)
To: AU72
Lizard...the other white meat
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:43:24 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Willie Green
They can get a job at Geico.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:43:52 AM PDT
by
ZULU
To: Willie Green
“University of California, Santa Cruz.”
No shortage of lizards here in Santa Cruz. In fact, I’ve seen more this year than ever.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:43:55 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!)
To: Willie Green
Cooking Lot Lizards?
That’s just wrong.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:43:58 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(we now live in a post-Obamapacolyptic world)
To: Texas resident
I can’t say I’ve ever tried one, but Kitty sure likes ‘em!
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:44:02 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: Willie Green
Free food for the homeless, tastes just like chicken.....
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:44:04 AM PDT
by
sniper63
(Bang,Bang, Maxwell's Silver hammer........)
To: Willie Green
We had a major die off of lizards locally, they froze to death We also lost massive numbers of coconut palms, due to the cold. Some said it was about 25% of Miami’s total palms died. Which I assume was all due to the global warming.
These nut cases are trying to help the global warming nutcases scam the American people. Odd the climate HOAX bill was introduced yesterday.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:44:04 AM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
To: Puppage
Did I really have to see his lizard?
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:44:08 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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