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Climate change could send venomous snakes slithering north
Toronto Star ^ | March 7, 2016 | By Raveena Aulakh

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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

They should be more worried about all the liberals threatening to move to Canada if a republican wins the presidency this November.

61 posted on 03/08/2016 12:56:44 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Twinkie

I don’t mind spiders and I like snakes. Cockroaches on the other hand...


62 posted on 03/08/2016 1:07:27 PM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: subterfuge

Polar bears, not post bears!


63 posted on 03/08/2016 1:08:18 PM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Spiders are in the queue.


64 posted on 03/08/2016 1:29:53 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The wall just got ten feet deeper.


65 posted on 03/08/2016 1:31:07 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tonight's Feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is The Giant Venomous Vipers from Venezuela Who Attacked Des Moines


66 posted on 03/08/2016 1:34:12 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DoughtyOne

Texas had a fabulous winter too, just right, cool enough, not freezing. It still is nice here, beautiful spring, the azaleas and trees are blooming.


67 posted on 03/08/2016 1:44:12 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

Well, the point is, it has been colder this year than in recent years. So much for global warming.


68 posted on 03/08/2016 1:52:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: subterfuge

I put out diatomaceous earth in hidden places that get shed
of all kinds of pests. (You have to put it out where no one
can get it on their hands!) It dries out bugs of all kinds
when they crawl through it. It’s not poison, but injures the
eyes if it gets in them. I dusted it all round the edges of
the rooms before the carpet was installed. It never goes
bad. It’s just the skeletons of little prehistoric bugs that
all died at once and collected out west somewhere. Now used
to dry out bugs & worm your animals. I’d rather use it than
poisons.


69 posted on 03/08/2016 2:01:11 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: DoughtyOne

Here in Houston we only had one time that it got down to freezing at my house. Not too much rain, tomorrow we may flood but the winter has been a little on the dry side. Perfect!


70 posted on 03/08/2016 2:12:20 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Twinkie

Awesome idea! I happen to have a large bag of diatomaceous earth. Use it for my pool filter. Thanks!


71 posted on 03/08/2016 2:17:43 PM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: Ditter

We may have gotten down to freezing once here. Not sure abou that. I was close a few nights.

We went for about six weeks with nights in the 30s, 40, or low 50s. That’s unusual for us.

We’re back there again right now for a couple of weeks.

Ouch!

Seems funny to mention it with the bad weather back east. This is only meant to address on global warming, and I don’t think it is supported with our figures.

It warmed up a few days, and the weather folks started talking about global warming again. They’re hooked!


72 posted on 03/08/2016 2:30:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Ditter

Glad you did have a nice winter. Great.


73 posted on 03/08/2016 2:30:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

By 2030 the dinosaurs will be back, eating giant ferns in all the suburbs.


74 posted on 03/08/2016 2:35:32 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

What are they going to do, take a bus up there? Even if they were transported up there, deadly snakes MAY try living in the north country during the summer but come winter they will freeze out. “Global warming” is not going to set the woods on fire when the earth temperature in Canada reaches well below 30 degrees F. Global warming is more tin hat theory, not science.


75 posted on 03/08/2016 2:39:22 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: DoughtyOne
We have a California relative who is all in with global warming. I think he has met Algore and drank some of his bulls**t flavored koolaide. I mentioned the damage that a volcano or two could do to our planet and he said OH NO fossil fuels are much much worse. Glad I don't have to talk to him very often.
76 posted on 03/08/2016 2:39:29 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The area I live in is known as the Driftless Area...the area of western Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, and northeastern Iowa relatively untouched by the last glacier. The gigantic ice sheet that covered most of the upper U.S. did not bulldoze the area like other places. That left a lot of limestone and sandstone hills and bluffs. Those are great places for rattlesnakes.

Some years ago one nationally known snake expert I talked to at a nature hike in the area said it was one of the best places in the country to find rattlers. So we went out on a hike on one of the bluffs in the area.

As we just entered a relatively treeless part of the bluff called a goat prairie, he walked up to a boulder, looked a bit underneath, took out his snake stick, and pulled out two rattlers. I'm glad when I hiked the bluffs frequently when I was younger that I never stuck my hand underneath a large rock.

77 posted on 03/08/2016 2:49:18 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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78 posted on 03/08/2016 4:00:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: subterfuge

NO! NO! NO! NO! - FOOD GRADE Diatomaceous Earth! The kind
used for pool filters is POISONOUS!! To both humans and
animals! - Please reply!


79 posted on 03/08/2016 5:03:46 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: subterfuge

I think one of those post bears got your post! ;)


80 posted on 03/08/2016 5:46:43 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ JFK ~)
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