Head for the Hills! Wildlife Biologists Gone Mad!
Here is an amusing example of junk politicized science that you paid for. Your money was shoved down a rat hole in the name of Algore’s hoax. Fortunately, the junk was debunked for free, although you will not be getting your money back.
Head for the Hills! Creatures Flee Global Warming
By LiveScience Staff
Global warming is forcing 30 species of reptiles and amphibians to move uphill as habitats shift upward, but they may soon run out of room to run.
The shift could cause at least two toad species and one species of gecko in Madagascar to go extinct by the end of this century, a biologist says.
Uphill movement is a predicted response to increased temperatures, researcher Christopher Raxworthy of the American Museum of Natural History says. Earlier studies in Costa Rica have provided evidence of how tropical animals respond to climate change. …
“Obviously, more warming will put more species at risk,” Raxworthy told LiveScience.
The results are detailed in a recent online issue of the journal Global Change Biology.
“Two things together — highly localized distribution close to the very highest summits, and the magnitude of these upslope shifts in response to ongoing warming — make a poisonous cocktail for extinction,” Raxworthy said. … [more]
But is any of this true in the scientific sense, as in a factually correct hypothesis supported by real data?
From Joseph D’Aleo, CCM of ICECAP [here]
Icecap reality check: here is the NASA annual temperature plot since the 1880s for Antananarivo, a large city in Madagascar with a population of 452,000. See if you spot any signs of global warming. I always thought for there to be warming, temperatures actually had to rise. The creatures can’t read IPCC reports or model forecasts. Maybe they are moving because of the loss of habitat to population growth or trying to escape those crazy scientists with cameras and probes.
