Posted on 09/25/2018 6:48:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Temperatures have gone up in U.S. national parks twice as fast as in the rest of the country. And it's going to get worse, a new study finds.
Joshua Tree National Park in the Southern California desert could lose almost all its joshua trees. An adorable alpine mammal, the American pika, might disappear from its favorite roosts, like the high country of Lassen Volcanic National Park. Montana’s Glacier National Park could even find itself glacier-less.
These and other severe outcomes are projected to be coming to America’s 417 national parks, monuments and preserves, if the worst impacts of climate change are not staved off by massive reductions in greenhouse gases, according a new study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin.
Using previous data that they aggregated and reassessed, the researchers concluded that under the worst-case scenario, no reduction in earth-warming greenhouse gases, temperatures would increase between 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit and 16.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The most severe increases would hit Alaska’s North Slope, where grizzly bears, caribou, polar bears and other sensitive species make their homes.
The best hope for reducing the impacts would be for governments, companies and individuals to help the U.S. and other nations get carbon dioxide and its sister contaminants under control, the report’s authors said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
National Parks are another government idea gone bad. Pot growers in the parks are causing more damage than climate change.
***Montana’s Glacier National Park could even find itself glacier-less.***
According to a 1942 MGM Traveltalks short on Glacier and Waterton NPs, the glaciers have been receding since the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago and “If there is NO CLIMATIC CHANGE, they will be gone in a thousand years.”
So, go-bull warming or not they will be gone.
YAWN ,go away
***The most severe increases would hit Alaska’s North Slope, where grizzly bears, caribou, polar bears and other sensitive species make their homes.***
So, how did the animals survive BETWEEN the last FIVE Ice ages?
https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/ice-ages-what-are-they-and-what-causes-them/
“At least five major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth’s history: the earliest was over 2 billion years ago, and the most recent one began approximately 3 million years ago and continues today (yes, we live in an ice age!).”
lol
So,....global warming is a thinking creature that knows where the national parks are located, and selectively targets them?
what about the women? the chillun???
I love national parks. I can't wait to surf Glacier National Park and work on my tan at Denali National Park.
Government control is what ruins National Parks. Government screws everything up.
So now it’s children, women, minorities, and national parks hurt the most!
The truly pathetic criminal thing is that these so-called scientist losers are paid with taxpayers’ money. Throw them in prison!
The US National Park Service has allowed thousands of acres of forest cover to burn off completely in extremely arid parks like the Grand Canyon North Rim and Mesa Verde... and then they wonder why the temperature readings are higher in the parks. It is because they did not lift a finger to prevent the almost total destruction of the naturally occurring forests. In Mesa Verde, rangers openly admit that the pinon pine/utah juniper forest may never recover or regrow. They allowed these fires to occur because they have a policy of non-interference with “natural” processes. I have personally visited and observed the burnoffs in both parks and it is a crime that they allowed this to happen.
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