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Climate change 'makes birds shrink' in North America
BBC News ^
| 3/12/10
| Matt Walker
Posted on 03/12/2010 10:55:45 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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Scarlet tanagers are more than 2% smaller today than in the 1960s
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:57:06 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
Climate change ‘makes birds shrink’ in North America Chortle!
Nice one. Did this latest BS come from the University of East Anglia too?
To: NormsRevenge
So hummingbirds used to be bigger?
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:58:48 AM PST
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: NormsRevenge
Global warming made the birds smaller. It also made the birds bigger.
It made some birds become foxes and one bird became a deer.
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:58:51 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: NormsRevenge
Hold muh beer while I watch the birds shrinking.
The university experts told me so. My taxes paid for their research grants so I’m proud of them!!!!
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:58:53 AM PST
by
dennisw
(It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
To: NormsRevenge
"It's climate change!"
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:59:32 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain)
To: NormsRevenge
Birds are shrinking? Watts up with that?
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:59:33 AM PST
by
dennisw
(It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
To: edcoil
imagine hummers with 6 foot wingspans. :-)
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:59:41 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
Warmer air and higher humidity leads to less air density, should not lead to smaller wings.
Plus, let’s see “bird size” data from the warm period called The Medieval Warm Period. Called that by everyone except the UN Warmists, who took the inconvenient warmth off their database.
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:00:22 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: NormsRevenge
There is also the theory: Economy of purpose!
When the food supply is abundant they don’t have so far to travel to eat - don’t need wide bodies. When the food supply is scarce their metabolism needs to be fast.
After I give it some more thought, I’ll research it and let you know what I find. It helps to have an open mind or an empty one.
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:00:54 AM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
To: sodpoodle
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:02:48 AM PST
by
Free America52
(The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
To: NormsRevenge
This explains why the ostriches that live in the Australian and African desert are so tiny./sarc
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:03:24 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
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To: Revolting cat!
Cold weather is causing cocks to shrink.
To: NormsRevenge
Cool, so BBC, why the heck should anyone care? It can’t be controlled in any form by us.
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:03:37 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
To: NormsRevenge
...and the “bird killer” wind turbines will finish the job, thanks to the hypocrite environmentalists.
To: NormsRevenge
Alternative theory: natural selection due to the increased presence of large glass-walled buildings in urban environments. Small birds maneuver more easily, are faster, and tend to smash into reflective glass panels less frequently. I have just as much evidence to prove my theory as they do theirs.
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:03:54 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: NormsRevenge
Here's a 1957 photo of Hankinson's hummingbird. Impressive huh?
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:04:14 AM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: NormsRevenge; All
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:05:07 AM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: NormsRevenge
The government solution to this is to make your wallet and income shrink.
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posted on
03/12/2010 11:05:08 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Millions of unionized government employees are gang raping America)
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