Posted on 03/08/2016 11:32:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change could see a new risk slithering into Canada: snakes.
New research has found that rising temperatures could drive several deadly species northward to new areas, bringing them across the U.S. border with Canada. By 2050, some snakes could make their way as far north as Alberta, Quebec and southern Ontario.
Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute used climate models to predict the ranges of more than 75 poisonous snake species across the Americas.
For this study, researchers looked at different scenarios for each of the snake species - one in which the world cut down its dependency on carbon fuels and the other in which it didn't and it continued to warm.
For Jeremy Kerr, professor of biology at the University of Ottawa, snakes face greater risks from humans than vice-versa.
"For snakes, much like other species, it is adapt or die," he said.
For Kerr, the real message of this study is that "climate change is a dangerous experiment that creates real impacts in terms of biological diversity and we will be better off not changing climate than thinking about models of managing snake bite risks."
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
“Biodiversity is what they call an environment with all sorts of different types of plants and critters. Typically a good think. Well - except for the venomous snakes.”
Yes, of course, I already knew that. I was being semi-sarcastic. I find it amusing that the left always tries to get the word, “diversity” into any argument.
Dad figured that it came up in a camper, or something. Made me wish I was carrying a shotgun instead of a fishing pole.
Well played madam!
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"......bring em on
> Copperheads and two species of rattlers here already in NY. I dont believe well ever see cottonmouths here.
My pharmacist got bit by a rattlesnake this past summer while vacationing in Allegheny State Park near the New York/Pennsylvania state line.
Oh - sorry! I didn’t read the article - but I would think adding snakes into the mix would increase “diversity” - that would be a good liberal thing to do!
As long as they aren’t “vicious” snakes. Somebody warned me about them.
Maybe you went too far with your globull warming regulations. Maybe Moonbeam should dial it back and see if it gets warmer. I predict that it will get warmer in the next 5 to 7 months if he does.
You had the one of the best openings for a retort today.
Yup. I hunt east of there on the PA border on the southern tier of NY. They’re there. More in PA, but plenty in NY. And they’re illegal to kill. So remember the 3 S’s. Shoot Shovel and Shut-up.
Illegals have killed thousands upon thousands of American citizens over the past few decades. Snakes? Not so much.
Climate change could send venomous snakes slithering north
Or not
I did, fun movie. I got a lot of respect for Samuel Jackson form watching it. Proves he has a good sense of humor. Confession: when I was a little kid I used to love to run around with a T shirt full of garter snakes.
I like spiders. We have lots of snakes out here on the river. Rattlers, copperheads, and other types. Our
sinkhole down front is full of all sorts of vipers. These
Jihadists crawling around here through the woods are just
cruising for a bruising.
They’re already in DC the US CONGRESS is full of the along with the courts
But when global cooling happens the post bears will move in! Aaaack!
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