More proof of global warming
March 12, 2010 - 5:21pm
Animals and birds are slightly smaller on average in warmer climates. If you sample the same species of bird on the side of a hill, as you go up (cooler) the birds get larger.
The study shows that birds in north america have gotten significantly smaller over the last 45 years conforming to "Berman's rule" and proving that global warming is happening.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8560000/8560694.stm
Worth a read, I think
Brian
Animals and birds are slightly smaller on average in warmer climates. If you sample the same species of bird on the side of a hill, as you go up (cooler) the birds get larger.
The study shows that birds in north america have gotten significantly smaller over the last 45 years conforming to "Berman's rule" and proving that global warming is happening.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8560000/8560694.stm
Worth a read, I think
Brian
"Proof" is a bit strong. It is just more evidence to add to a plethora of evidence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550090.stm
Yeah, I did science and Iagree. But scientific language is not the language of the people.
You have to convert what you say into public speak. Otherwise we are lost.
The general public do not understand the evidence thing. They do not understand that certainty in science is impossible.
We could wait until it gets to 50 C average temp and they will still be saying that there is no proof. That it it just a "cycle"
The trial is over. The verdict is in.
We have to stop being wishy washy.
Global warming has solved a problem for once.
For more than 35 years, India and Bangladesh have been locked in a bitter territorial dispute over New Moore Island, an uninhabited sliver of sludge in the muddy Bay of Bengal. Now that argument has been settled by a higher power: climate change.
According to Sugata Hazra, director of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, the low-lying isle has disappeared under the rising seas. "There's no trace of the island anymore.
A good exmple of misattribution that only undermines public confidence in science.
Rather than rising sea level (at the current rate of 3 cm per decade), subsidence is the most likely cause of the island's submersion.
With all the well documented effects of climate change -- continued retreat of alpine glaciers, continued mass loss of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the long-term decline in Arctic sea ice mass, poleward advance of the subtropics and species, etc. -- why grasp at things that obviously are not climate related?
Interesting article actually, thanks Doug.
Indeed it seems with these claims of "oil" everywhere beneath the seas, we won't be running out anytime soon.