Posted on 11/24/2021 10:44:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When relationships end it might be because the spark has disappeared, or maybe you just can't make time for one another.
But can climate change cause break-ups?
It might do, according to a new study which suggests albatrosses - some of the world's most loyal creatures - are "divorcing" more.
Just 1% of albatrosses separate after choosing their life partner - much lower than the human divorce rate in the UK.
"Monogamy and long-term bonds is very common for them," says Francesco Ventura, researcher at the University of Lisbon and co-author of the study.
But in the years covered by the study with warmer water temperatures, up to 8% of albatross couples split up.
The study says "environmentally-driven divorce may be an overlooked consequence" of climate change.
Normally, albatross divorce is triggered when a pair fail to breed, so they find new partners in the next breeding season.
But the findings showed pairs were divorcing even if they'd had a successful breeding season.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Idiocy.
They could go back into the fossil record and find thousands of further examples of natural selection.
Damn! That’s the first thing in my mind that I worry about.
Damn you climate change!
Before long Presstitutes will be blaming Climate Change for thier inability to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...
Perhaps climate change will finally kill off that albatross that has been hanging off my neck for the last few decades
Monogamy and faithfulness are so overrated. They are an albatross around the neck of society!
Damn! That’s the first thing in my mind that I worry about.
This gave me a hearty chuckle. Thanks
I heard that climate change may be responsible for Bovine constipation in the northern latitudes
What do they do when they’re empty-nesters?
The end of the world, Environmental B$, Started in the 60’s!
All 0f Us Should Have died in the 1970’s!
Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions!:
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
Who believes this (bidet) bull feces?
Far too many, unfortunately.
And I thought it was social media…
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