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Climate change could shrink animals, warn scientists
Telegraph.co.uk ^
| March 15, 2017
| by Sarah Krapton
Posted on 03/15/2017 12:50:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Animals could start shrinking because of global warming, scientists have predicted, after discovering that mammals became ‘dwarfed’ in a similar episode of climate change 50 million years ago.
Paleontologists discovered the fossil teeth belonging to an early ancestor of modern horses as well as a rabbit-sized hoofed mammal.
“Dwarfing appears to be a common evolutionary response of some mammals during past global warming events, and the extent of dwarfing seems related to the magnitude of the event,” said lead author Dr Abigail Ambrosia, of the University of New Hampshire.
“Abrupt perturbations of the global carbon cycle during the early Eocene are associated with rapid global warming events, which are analogous in many ways to present greenhouse warming.”
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; fakescience; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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To: Wuli
If man is causing global warming what caused the warming in the past that shrunk these animal? Was there a Neanderthal industrial revolution or something?
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posted on
03/15/2017 1:52:44 PM PDT
by
peeps36
(Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Any word if climate change will bring back the mo? You just cant find a good mohair sweater anymore...remember how popular they were in the 60’s? Made from the hair of the mo...btw...what is a mo?
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posted on
03/15/2017 1:53:45 PM PDT
by
connyankee
(#MAGABEGINS)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This article sounds like a PC global warming twist on an otherwise accepted theory amongst evolutionary biologists that isolated populations often exhibit dwarfism compared to their non-isolated relatives. This can be observed on islands that get separated due to continental drift etc. Reasons for dwarfism include limited predation and less need for high body mass.
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posted on
03/15/2017 2:02:11 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Cool, I’ll take a dwarf panda for a pet please.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, this should counter the obesity epidemic...
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posted on
03/15/2017 2:23:46 PM PDT
by
piasa
To: IncPen
PONIES WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL PONIES!!
*buys a Ford Excursion, revs engine every hour*
To: Mr. Douglas
Scarier yet, what will the NBA do with 3 foot tall players?
Drop the rim down to 6 feet? Dang!
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posted on
03/15/2017 2:29:03 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Could!” “Might!” Yep. There’s science. /s wc
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posted on
03/15/2017 2:32:59 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Could!” “Might!” Yep. There’s science. /s
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posted on
03/15/2017 2:36:35 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
03/15/2017 2:42:14 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
You mean I can have a pet lion, which will be the size of a house cat? Will an Emu be the size of a robin? I just gnu it, but I’ll stop Yak -ing... :-)
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posted on
03/15/2017 2:47:08 PM PDT
by
ConservaTeen
(Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
To: peeps36
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posted on
03/15/2017 3:28:11 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: FlingWingFlyer
“Could” is the keyword.Always!
There is never a certainty in any of the climate "predictions," so they can say whatever they want. I can say dinosaurs "could" have been so big due to climate warming.
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03/15/2017 3:31:21 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
To: Wuli
It wasn't directed towards you. It was questioning their logic.
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posted on
03/15/2017 4:37:12 PM PDT
by
peeps36
(Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists, you prove it? I’ll believe it when I see it.
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posted on
03/16/2017 2:45:52 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
To: Right Wing Assault
You know(gnu) that is what I am going to do! Dream up the biggest bullshoi and blame it on global warming, eventually people will catch on!!!
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posted on
03/16/2017 12:38:45 PM PDT
by
joegoeny
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The largest land animals that ever lived (dinosaurs) thrived in a climate so warm that there were no ice caps at all.
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posted on
04/07/2017 4:46:07 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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