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Half of North American bird species threatened by climate change
LA Times ^ | September 8, 2014 | Louis Sahagun

Posted on 09/10/2014 6:24:48 AM PDT by Zakeet

Half of all bird species in North America — including the bald eagle — are at risk of severe population decline by 2080 if the swift pace of global warming continues, the National Audubon Society concluded in a study released Monday.

"The scale of the disruption we're projecting is a real punch in the gut," said Gary Langham, chief Audubon scientist.

Langham led an Audubon study that examined more than 500 bird species and determined that more than 300 in Canada and the United States face large climate shifts that could reduce their habitat by half or more by 2080.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birds; climatechange; environment; globalwarming
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To: Zakeet

If it gets the ones crapping on my car it’ll be worth it!!!


41 posted on 09/10/2014 7:15:59 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Zakeet

“Half of all bird species in North America — including the bald eagle — are at risk of severe population decline by 2080 if the swift pace of global warming continues,...”

You mean the swift pace that has resulted in no temp change since 1998?


42 posted on 09/10/2014 7:20:25 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Zakeet
What a crock!
First, the 'global warming' has not been accelerating -- it has actually been essentially zero for the last 17 years.Second, the one creature which has the least worry about global warming, if it were ever to happen, would be a bird. All it would have to do is fly a few miles further north (or south in the SH), very easy for a bird.
43 posted on 09/10/2014 7:21:45 AM PDT by expat2
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To: Zakeet

Can’t correctly predict the weather a week in advance and they want us to believe what “might” happen in 65 years? Shaking head in disbelief....


44 posted on 09/10/2014 7:25:56 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Zakeet
When are these "progressive" nitwits going to figure out that we all know that "global warming" is a scam, a multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme?

Congress should pass a Law that any public figure pushing the scam of "Global Warming" be immediately jailed for attempted mass fraud.

This crap makes Bernie Madoff look like a Boy Scout.

45 posted on 09/10/2014 7:26:59 AM PDT by Gargantua ("You fine, proud legume..." ;^)
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To: Zakeet
Half of all bird species in North America — including the bald eagle — are at risk of severe population decline by 2080 if the swift pace of global warming continues, the National Audubon Society concluded in a study released Monday.

Yep - NO global warming in 18 years means that the climate will be EXACTLY what it is today in the year 2080, right?

46 posted on 09/10/2014 7:43:48 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: Zakeet

If the ones that crap on my Jeep are included in that half I’m all for it.


47 posted on 09/10/2014 7:46:09 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Zakeet

Wow. The stupid of these global warming fools BURNS.


48 posted on 09/10/2014 8:10:09 AM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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Los Angeles Times threatened by climate change!

Get outa dodge you freaks!


49 posted on 09/10/2014 8:10:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: Zakeet

Audubon Society, now there is an unbiased source if there was ever was one. Look at who runs the organization and how much money they have donated to the DNC and Democratic Candidates and the money to Republicans. Even their monthly magazine has at least one political dig against Republicans monthly, if not more.


50 posted on 09/10/2014 8:13:04 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Zakeet
Oh no, we're all going to die!

5.56mm

51 posted on 09/10/2014 8:17:07 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: 2nd Amendment
The 2 dozen bald eagles nesting behind my nephew’s house in MT. seem to be doing OK!

No windmills nearby yet?

52 posted on 09/10/2014 8:39:52 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Fresh Wind

Global warming is a crock, but the true cause of loss of native birds until recently has been the proliferation of non-native bird species followed by habitat loss.

Starlings, especially, are a threat to native species. They multiply rapidly and take over other bird nests to do so. Habitat loss is another cause of native bird loss, but in recent years private conservation efforts have attempted to reverse that.

Of course, both windmills and solar facilities are becoming much more detrimental to bird populations, especially predators, as they are killed as they try to get to smaller birds hit by the blades or roasted as they fly between the collectors and the receiver.


53 posted on 09/10/2014 8:49:12 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Zakeet
I would bet that not one of these whining nincompoops can name, off-the-cuff, just one North American
bird species that has been rendered extinct by climate change since this idiotic nonsense became popular.


54 posted on 09/10/2014 8:54:48 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Zakeet

Unfortunately, the population of the Northeast Liberal Gooney Loon is still growing...


55 posted on 09/10/2014 9:05:45 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Zakeet
By 2080, the bald eagle, the national symbol of the United States, could see its habitat decrease by 75%, the report says.

With a habitat range of Central Mexico to the Alaska North Slope hard to imagine the climate of Southern Mexico reaching as far north as central Canada.

56 posted on 09/10/2014 9:35:52 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Da Coyote

Well I’d say the wind farms and the solar farms are chopping and roasting most of them.


57 posted on 09/10/2014 11:03:29 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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