How is Wildlife Affected by Global Warming?
Thursday May 8, 2008
Most researchers agree that even small changes in temperature are enough to send hundreds if not thousands of already struggling species into extinction unless we can stem the tide of global warming.
And time may be of the essence: A 2003 study published in the journal Nature concluded that 80 percent of some 1,500 wildlife species sampled are already showing signs of stress from global warming and climate change.
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true.
This is the sort of silly stuff that detracts from the credibility of the Global warming issue. Populations of species are always in dynamic equilibrium with their environment. If warming decreases the habitat of cold adapted species, it increases the opportunities for warm adapted species. The pendululum will eventually swing back to favor the cold adapted again. Remember that the Holocene Optimum, the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period were all warmer than the current warm period. A recent study showed that temps during the interglacial period preceding the last glaciation (500,000 - 1 million years ago, was 10degC warmer than now! The polar bears and penguins survived that. They’ll survive this.
just think if this keeps going the animals will all go extinct and what will our next generations of people be like without the animals?they will be dreadful and all the stories in the schools telling the kds of the future that it was all our falt that all of the animals died. then what?
this is a true fact