Climate change driving species to the Earth's poles faster than predicted, scientists say


Warming temperatures are pushing land and sea creatures closer to the north and south poles and to cooler altitudes at rates faster than first predicted, scientists say.

Scientists from 40 countries are gathering in Hobart for a four-day conference about how climate change is forcing species to move, including humans.

Professor Camille Parmesan from Plymouth University in the UK said around the world animals and plants were moving towards the Earth's poles, and it is happening faster than scientists had originally predicted.

"For the species that we have really good data on where they've lived historically over the past 100 years, we're seeing about half of those have actually moved where they live, which is an astonishing number given we've only had one degree centigrade warming," she said.

The East Australian Current has moved 350 kilometres further south in the past 60 years.

Tasmania's east coast is a global hotspot for marine species that are moving south.

One of them is the long-spined sea urchin.

Associate Professor Gretta Pecl from the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies said the species was becoming a pest.


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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-09/climate-change-driving-species-to-the-pole...

____ wrote on Feb 9^th, 2016 at 4:44pm:



She is so funny.

Camiile and the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, hahaha

Studied the butterflies saw some had moved up the mountain. Apparently didn't realise the area had been logged. The grasses moved up the mountain because they could get sun. The butterflies followed. According to her that was proof of AGW and the butterflies need to migrate.

The trees grew back. The grasses died out. The butterflies moved down the mountain again.

Of course you would.

How many times have you given up milk, bacon, eggs, etc., because, at various times, they have been deemed (in 'studies'), as bad for your health?

One imagines that these studies have been extant for less time than the GW farce.

The real answer to global warming is to reduce the world's population by 80%.

Butterflies   

____ wrote on Feb 9^th, 2016 at 10:03pm:



'But recent logging near their natural habitat changed all that. Not only did logging open the forest floor to more sunlight, it also exposed deeper soils that had been enriched from the logging debris and burn-piles. That human disturbance created the just-right conditions for the annual Collinsia to survive for much longer periods. Serendipitously it also created a novel butterfly-plant synchrony. A longer-lived and more abundant Collinsia could now sustain the full development of hungry caterpillars.'

http://landscapesandcycles.net/fabricating-climate-doom---part-3--extreme-weathe...

'Jim was the Director and an instructor at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus from 1985 to 2009. His enthusiasm for natural history and ecology has led to an extensive knowledge of the plant and animal life in the Sierra Buttes and Yuba Pass area of the Sierra Nevada. He believes that every class should be highly informative, somewhat rigorous and fun.'

https://www.sfsu.edu/~sierra/Instructor_JimSteele.html

'He is a genuine environmentalist who has worked for various government agencies as a consultant and is a supporter of the Feather River and Sierra County Land Trusts. He is now a professor emeritus and is thus untethered from dependence on government grants or patronage. '

https://www.masterresource.org/climate-exaggeration/steele-book-climate-skeptici...

Just a little background.

Lionel Edriess wrote on Feb 9^th, 2016 at 11:17pm:

how can the real answer to global warming be to reduce global population when the bulk of emissions have come from the least populated cities

I did notice whales migrating to Antarctica this year..... right past here...... spotted one from an aircraft once... thousands of feet up and the tail splashing was awesome... beautiful creatures......

Bunch of sellouts - offer 'em a cheap krill and off they go to Antarctica....

Soren wrote on Feb 11^th, 2016 at 10:40pm:

Link, thanx

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Feb 11^th, 2016 at 10:53pm:


One came in right off the beach one day.. no more than about twenty metres out.... playing for the crowd.. exhibitionist!  Many times I've been out with the cameras and stuff - not that day.... buggar....