How do they know which is the cause and which is the effect?
Carbon Dioxide’s fault?
How does that correlate to temperature again? Oh yea. The consensus thing.
The whole study (if that’s what they call it) was based on a premise that is theorized at best and fictional at worst.
Guess who will now peer review this and announce that humans will start to shrink in the years to come, nevermind the history of human evolution over the past 100 years.
The article has a very misleading title. The horse shrunk from Big-House-Cat size to Average-House-Cat size, a weight reduction of 30%.
As written, it gives one the impression that you go from a Belgian to an Eohippus or house cat size due to global warming (I’m sure the editor had no such bias).
Animal Kingdom Weirdness?
“I joke about this all the time — we’re going to be walking around three feet tall if we keep going the way we’re going,” said Gingerich, a researcher at the University of Michigan and director of its Museum of Paleontology. “Maybe that’s not all bad and, if that’s the worst it gets, it will be fine. You can either adapt, or you go extinct, or you can move, and there’s not a lot of place to move anymore, so I think it’s a matter of adaptation and becoming smaller.”
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It is really getting difficult to keep a polite dispositon when dealing with people who are this idiotic. This man actually thinks that human progress, capitalism, and propserity will drive us to being three feet tall. He does not deserve even any respect at all but deserves contempt. He is driven by upholding political lies and that is all. He deserves ridicule and no respect. He is dangerous given that he holds a position that should be respected and then pushes such lies.
Obviously, this is Bush’s fault.
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If this is true, my great grandkids will be the size of North Koreans.
So Clydesdale horses used to be bigger?
I’m confused. They say horses get smaller due to rising temperatures, then say that horses started off small and got bigger.
I thought cold water caused shrinkage.
Even if these alarmists were correct in their conclusions, so what!
Smaller mammals means less consumption. Adaptation is natural and evolutionary. Isn’t this what they wanted from us?
” Massive Carbon Release Shrinks Horses to Size of House Cats”
On the plus side, cats were enlarged to the size of houses.
Of course, houses were somewhat smaller then, about the size of an artificially enlarged doormouse, or a shriveled Cheshire cat.
Thieves in Florida can walk right under your locked door. Of course, all they can steal is a lint ball.
PATENT BULLSHIT!!
Hard to believe what passes as science today...
Not very long ago....this article would be considered written by a crackpot...