Posted on 09/08/2013 6:46:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The effects of climate change often happen on a large scale, like drought or a rise in sea level. In the hills outside Missoula, Mont., wildlife biologists are looking at a change to something very small: the snowshoe hare.
Hares switch color in the spring and fall in response to light, when the days get longer or shorter. But that means they're at the mercy of the weather. If the snow comes late, you get a white hare on brown ground.
Scott Mills of North Carolina State University leads the research. He says they're finding that mismatched hares die at higher rates. That's a concern for the threatened Canada lynx, which mainly eats these hares.
"It's a picture that paints a thousand words," Mills says. "It's a very clear connection to a single climate change stressor."
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I describe my hair color as ‘transparent’. :=) The DMV won’t let me list it that way on my driver’s license.
Well played!
But the dems and Algore sycophants want the snow charts to look like a heart attack flat-line. Then everything would be perfect and we can sing kumbaya.
where it says "Modify Theory to Fit Data" if this was "Actual Method" it should read "Modify Data to fit Theory".
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
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