04-02-2019, 02:46 AM
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Wiped out by Climate Change?
This might be the first Australian extinction due to climate change. These animals have no mechanism for coping with heat, they do not pant or sweat.Professor Williams and I are here to look for a creature called the white lemuroid possum, which scientists fear could become extinct due to climate change.
The white possum was nearly wiped out in the Mount Lewis region by a heatwave in 2005.
"After that time, we didn't see any lemuroids for seven years so the heatwave had knocked the population down to such a low level we couldn't find them spotlighting, using exactly the same methods where previously we'd seen lots of them," Professor Williams recalls.
"They started to recover, and after about seven years we started to see an occasional lemuroid, and then a couple and then four, so they were slowly recovering. Of course, that's until the next heatwave."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-...hange/10774516
04-02-2019, 08:56 AM
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Re: Wiped out by Climate Change?
Originally Posted by Bruce
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This might be the first Australian extinction due to climate change. These animals have no mechanism for coping with heat, they do not pant or sweat.Professor Williams and I are here to look for a creature called the white lemuroid possum, which scientists fear could become extinct due to climate change.
The white possum was nearly wiped out in the Mount Lewis region by a heatwave in 2005.
"After that time, we didn't see any lemuroids for seven years so the heatwave had knocked the population down to such a low level we couldn't find them spotlighting, using exactly the same methods where previously we'd seen lots of them," Professor Williams recalls.
"They started to recover, and after about seven years we started to see an occasional lemuroid, and then a couple and then four, so they were slowly recovering. Of course, that's until the next heatwave."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-...hange/10774516
I wonder how often this has happened in the history of our planet ?
04-02-2019, 10:20 AM
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Re: Wiped out by Climate Change?
Oh dear that is a shame .I wonder how often this has happened in the history of our planet ?
The answer is millions of times actually ...
Fact is 99% OF ALL LIFE ever on this planet is already extinct ... FACT !
now whilst it’s obvious man has made its presence known in the short time we have been on this rock in the whole scheme of things we have been here but an instant , if you took the entire time earth has been here as 24 hours then man has been here but a minute and look at the amount of life in various ways that’s been here before and many lasted millions of years yet still extinction took them eventually just as it will us eventually as ‘the earth’ itself goes through many cycles from global warming to ice age ... happened many many times and will continue doing so with or without our help , true we may contribute but that doesn’t mean if we all left earth today that it wouldn’t continue doing so itself ... excellent question however their is no definitive answer and never will be
https://youtu.be/jtNs5k2KHXU
https://youtu.be/AeJSa_eariQ
But then there is also an argument to be said that who are we saving the planet for ?????
At the present birth rate it isn’t for us ... the world will eventually become Islamic and as demonstrated globally Islam cannot control itself and the bad guys rise to the top so are we really saving the planet for isis ? Sounds silly but hey ... it’s a valid argument
https://youtu.be/_kKkY5EpVpY
Possibly il start being green when I see a longer term reason why I should
04-02-2019, 01:27 PM
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Re: Wiped out by Climate Change?
Originally Posted by marmaduke
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Oh dear that is a shame .I wonder how often this has happened in the history of our planet ?
This is the first one since white settlement that could go extinct due to climate change.
07-02-2019, 06:35 AM
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Re: Wiped out by Climate Change?
Greenland was WARM during the Viking Age, new study claimshttps://mol.im/a/6675647
So there is possibly an argument that climate change is a natural event
But, if a new study is correct, the era may not have been quite as cold as we’ve come to believe.
Using lake sediment cores collected in southern Greenland, researchers have reconstructed the region’s climate record for the past 3,000 years.
The study suggests the ancient settlers may have had balmy weather on their side when they arrived in the year 985 C.E, with summer temperatures sitting around 50-degrees
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