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Climate change threatens many bird species
San Jose Mercury ^ | 09/09/2014 | Lisa M. Krieger

Posted on 09/09/2014 6:13:00 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Bluebirds, mallard ducks and other beloved California birds may vanish from our summer skies, according to an alarming new report released by the National Audubon Society.

Climate change could shrink or shift the range of half of the nation's 588 bird species over the next 65 years, forcing them to move or adapt to smaller homes, according to the group's scientists.

Some species, unable to change, may become extinct.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


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To: artichokegrower
This "article" made me laugh. I mean, really laugh hard.

That's probably not the reaction they were hoping to elicit.

21 posted on 09/09/2014 6:47:20 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: teeman8r

The Liberals and their causes never go away. They just wait until a new vunerable generation is born.

Greenhouse gases are back. They sort of lost glamour with the hole in the Ozone in the 1970s.

Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984 (according to new WMO figures)
 
09/08/2014 7:17:03 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 40 replies
BBC News ^ | 9/8/14 | Matt McGrath
    A surge in atmospheric CO2 saw levels of greenhouse gases reach record levels in 2013, according to new figures. Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2012 and 2013 grew at their fastest rate since 1984. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says that it highlights the need for a global climate treaty. But the UK's energy secretary Ed Davey said that any such agreement might not contain legally binding emissions cuts, as has been previously envisaged. The WMO's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin doesn't measure emissions from power station smokestacks but instead records how much of the warming gases remain...

22 posted on 09/09/2014 6:47:41 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: artichokegrower

I had read that many bird species had expanded their ranges in other parts of the country, like the Northeast, because people putting out birdseed enabled a lot of birds to over-winter in colder areas, instead of having to leave. Now, if those areas got warmer, due to global warming, the wouldn’t leave. They would stay there, and just get less chilly.


23 posted on 09/09/2014 7:06:53 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Great point and right on the money.


24 posted on 09/09/2014 7:13:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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To: artichokegrower

Stopped reading at “Climate”.


25 posted on 09/09/2014 7:41:14 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: MrB

Because climate change is why bird choopers have been built on ridgelines


26 posted on 09/09/2014 11:44:57 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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To: artichokegrower

The cold is bad for birds.


27 posted on 09/09/2014 11:49:33 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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