Animals and Global Warming



lobster

Global warming wiping out lobsters

Graph shows tonnage of lobster harvest.


malaria

Dafuq?

It's asserted global warming increaed malaria, the press goes nuts and gets quite rabid then it's found out warmer climates actually slow down malaria.


Wiped out by an ice age.

"Northern mastodons were likely killed off by global cooling, not warming: Paleontologist"


monarch

The fickle monarch

Monarch butterflies dropped off the radar for a while. Global warming was blamed. Then they came back. But global warming is worse than ever. How is this even possible? Obviously it's not, so either Scientific American was worng and monarchs are not affetd by warming or it's not warming. I don't care which one you pick but there's no third possibility is there?


https://m.metrotimes.com/detroit/detroit-is-being-invaded-by-arctic-snowy-owls/Content?oid=8672725

Snowy owls are moving south

Why would snowy owls show up in more southern latitudes?


panda

The Panda population has increased by 17%.

In 2012 the world went crazy over the idea global warming was destroying the bamboo and extinction of the panda was postulated in tens of thousands of blog posts. This week China reported that the panda population had increased by 17%.


Arctic penguins?

The greatest threat to penguins is flu.



snakes

Snakes. No, really, snakes.

This is just too funny for words.


http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30456869

Arctic ground squirrels unlock permafrost carbon

Arctic ground squirrels dig tunnels which may release more CO2 from frozen soil than if they didn't dig. The catch is nobody knows how many there are.




mastadon: Wiped out by an ice age.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141229180349/http://www.theprovince.com/technology/environment/Northern+mastodons+were+likely+killed+global/10433200/story.html


owls: Snowy owls are moving south
https://m.metrotimes.com/detroit/detroit-is-being-invaded-by-arctic-snowy-owls/Content?oid=8672725


squirrels: Arctic ground squirrels unlock permafrost carbon
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30456869