For presenting snippets of climate–related news.
Some actual evidence that the globe is warming and becoming wetter in comments to an article:
coloradobob / May 2, 2017
One more thing about rain as murder weapon of ice and snow. It has been linked to the decline of caribou . They have evolved to paw through snow, to get the lichens. They have not evolved to break ice to get lichens. When one of these rain events comes along in the winter , they can produce a really thick ice layer on top of a snowpack .
I can think of four other creatures that are facing this same problem . Musk Ox, buffalo, mice, and owls.
This idea of rain falling where it shouldn’t, and when it shouldn’t , is a real biological feedback loop , as well as a geophysical feedback loop.
bostonblorp / May 2, 2017
Mass death of reindeer attributed to too much snow and ice for them to paw through.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reindeer-dead-climate-change_us_5832bda6e4b0...“In both cases, the animals appeared to have died due to abnormally thick layers of snow and ice in their habitat, which made it impossible for them to access the lichen and other vegetation on which they survive.
Without anything to eat, the deer died en masse.”
robertscribbler / May 2, 2017
Thanks for the link, BB. It really is amazing how many big and little things just a few degrees of temperature departure can change. Bob’s been covering the impacts to reindeer from freezing rain locking up their available food sources in the comments here for a number of years now. I think this began to crop up as a noticeable issue in the mid 2000s. But the frequency of such events recently has been considerably higher.
So, no Ice Age for a looooong time.
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