Posted on 09/14/2014 6:55:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
By 2080, birds like the northern saw-whet owl, the scarlet tanager and the Baltimore oriole could all but disappear from Pennsylvania.
Climate change is expected to shrink and shift northward the ranges of these and hundreds of other species across North America, according to a groundbreaking National Audubon Society study.
Citizen science was crucial to this report. Audubon scientists relied on tens of thousands of observations from the U.S. Geological Survey’s North American Breeding Bird Survey, along with Aubudon’s own Christmas Bird Count.
It combined these observations with historical climate data and climate changes predicted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment, Audubon spokeswoman Agatha Szczepaniak said. IPCC is still finishing its Fifth Assessment.
The result is a tool anyone can use to learn how birds are likely to respond. Users can choose their state and search birds based on their names and the percentage of summer and winter ranges lost.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes-tribune.com ...
Operative word: COULD. The big assumption is that the computer model predictions are correct - which has been thoroughly demonstrated as FALSE.
This phrase said all I needed to know about this "future" threat..
If Audubon is going to misuse it’s credibility like that, there’s no reason to differentiate it from a German highway.
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Audubon predicts climate change will shrink bird ranges
Translation: Save our government and private grants.
Seems the solar farms and windmills are having a devastating effect on the birds. Incinerating birds in flight is just a needless murder. Wonder where they stand on this issue. /sarc
The Audubon Society donates a significant amount of money to the DNC. The Society is nothing but a political front for liberals with very little going to the preservation of birds.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah............
Maybe the elite folks will manage to fool the unwashed rabble and stop it from crowding up the southern comfort zones.
With the econuts’ vaunted wind-power turbines chopping-up birds at a fast pace, there will be fewer birds and, therefore, will be smaller ranges. ...and that’s not counting the birds being fried by the econuts’ vaunted solar power. Maybe the LIB asshats at audubon could do some investigating of these senseless bird deaths.
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