Too late! They've already reached Massachusetts!
Posted on 09/15/2017 9:49:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Venomous snakes are among the most feared animals in the world, and they may start slithering into new places.
Yanez-Arenas: “So as our climate changes, so too will the potential for a species to expand their ranges and come in contact with people they never will have before.”
Carlos Yanez-Arenas is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2015, while a post-doc at the University of Kansas, he used climate models to predict where dozens of species of snakes will be able to live by 2050.
He found that with warmer temperatures, many snakes, such as copperheads and some species of rattlesnake, will be able to survive farther north than in the past. How far the snakes move will depend on how much the climate warms.
For example, if carbon emissions are limited and warming is minimal, the copperhead could move into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and parts of Illinois.
But if emissions are not reduced and warming continues unchecked, the venomous copperhead could be able to live in Michigan, New York, and parts of New England.
More snakes could mean more snake bites – that’s bad news for people who enjoy spending time outdoors.
The snakes already migrated to the North East (i.e. New York, CT, MA, etc). They’re called Liberals, Progressives, Marxists, A.K.A, Democrats.
But maybe Yale will slither north. Just 367 miles to Montreal!
Soon there’ll be alligators and crocodiles in Bangor, Maine eating your lobsters.
We’ve had Michigan Rattlers for longer than the Ojibwe have been saying “mishigamaa”.
When I was in the USAF, I was sent to Canada in winter. Other troops warned me to watch out for the snow snakes.
Joke was on them as I knew what a snow snake was.
A friend in southern Ohio killed a Copperhead that was 39 inches long in his driveway. I asked him where the other one was. Let that sink in.
In the political world, the snakes move from north to south.
Kinda does if the media keeps saying it does.
Hitlery did move to new York.
***What? The Northern Copperhead has been in those states forever. ***
And especially think during the Civil War.
As a kid, back in the middle fifties, I was paid good money to shoot and kill rattlesnakes in the blue hills of what is now the peoples republic of Massachusetts.
My dad would drop me off at the Howard Johnsons in the early morning, just me, my .22 and a burlap bag to put the dead snakes in.
One year I got a big one, when I showed it to him he gave ma lesson in economics. He said “Bobby, that big snake kept you from being able to carry out five little ones, you get paid by the snake, not the pound.”
From then on I left many a big snake on the rocks and harvested more little ones.
Too late! They've already reached Massachusetts!
Another danged Hillary Clinton thread!
think=thick!
“The rivers are full of crocodile nasties
and He who made kittens put snakes in the grass.
He’s a lover of life but a player of pawns -—
yes, the King on His sunset lies waiting for dawn
to light up His Jungle
as play is resumed.
The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune.”
Yeah, they’ve always been here in PA,along with timber rattlers but don’t let the truth ruin a good fiction story.
What about alligators and crocodiles?
Unfortunately for the author, the erf is entering a period of COOLING.
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