Posted on 01/20/2018 6:05:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Thanksgiving was right around the corner, and a sizable number of one of America’s most famous migrants could be seen still sputtering south. Not across the Texas-Mexico border, where most monarch butterflies should be by that time of year. These fluttered tardily through the migratory funnel that is Cape May, N.J., their iconic orange-and-black patterns splashing against the muted green of pines frosted by the season’s first chill.
This delayed migration is not normal, and it alarmed monarch researchers across the country.
Scientists fear that climate change is behind what they’re calling the latest monarch migration ev er recorded in the eastern United States, and they worry that rising temperatures pose a new threat to a species that saw its population hit record lows in recent years.
“Migration conditions are a Goldilocks sort of thing. Weather, like porridge, can be too hot, too cold or just right,” said Chip Taylor, who heads the University of Kansas’s Monarch Watch, the country’s most comprehensive monarch research program. “What a warm fall does is often delay the migration in various ways. Late monarchs just don’t get to Mexico as well as early monarchs do. The difference is quite striking.”
Because they’re so delicate — each weighs less than a gram — monarchs are particular about the conditions they’ll fly in, and especially vulnerable to extreme weather systems. Major storms, high winds, early freezes — all pose large-scale dangers, and the butterflies faced all of those this year. But more pernicious than that, scientists believe, are the warmer temperatures, probably a sign of climate change, which manipulated the monarchs’ instincts and pushed their migration back.
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Life finds a way.
Immigration is really broken. We can’t even send the butterflies back.
Weird that “climate change” didn’t delay Mexicans from flooding north across the border into the U.S. This story doesn’t make any sense.
But I am interested in this new species called the Stormy Daniels Butterfuch.
At least they self-deport. And all they want is some measly milkweed!
Annnnnnnnnnnnd we’re back to climate change.
The rats really, really don’t want the memos released.
I was having a laugh with the wife this morning that last week, I found one article per day forecasting some “disaster” due to “climate change”. Today, however, there were two...we’re gonna run out of maple syrup and monarch butterflies.
The articles are always written by journalist who couldn’t pass a high school senior physics course, but repeat claims by some “researcher” who appears to have the logic capability of Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch.
Pathetic.
You’ve got to hand it to old Joseph G. He is presiding over the greatest hoax in history.
The monarch population has dropped because we don’t use enough DDT to keep the butterfly-eating bird population under control.
“maple syrup and monarch butterflies”
The start of a balanced breakfast.
Self driving butterfly cars..hmmm
I’ll watch reruns of the britcom “Butterflies”.
Good comedy.
He wanted to be a republican but had to change his name from Nunez to Nunes because republicans don't elect Mexicans, negroids, orientals, faggots, or fornicators.
The monarch migration has been off for decades. Can’t remember when we didn’t have the annual news flash.
People bought steel belted radials far later in the season this year thus worrying climate scientists.
So, maybe “off” is actually “on”!
And I counted snowflakes during our last big snow storm and there were 154 MISSING!
More like Researchers are really concerned that if they don’t find a new way to speculate about Global Warming, their multimillion dollar tax funding will dry up.
Getting a real job is the root of all research concerns....
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