Posted on 04/29/2016 8:36:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Lee Kantar lost two moose calves this past weekend. They are just a few among many calves that did not survive their first year in the forests of Maine. Kantar, a moose biologist for the state’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, has only been tracking calves for a few years but early death is a trend he and others can see across the animal's southern range, which stretches through the northern U.S. and Canada. Scientists speculate that young and adult moose alike are plagued by new diseases and parasites. Brain worm and winter ticks, for example, are both worsening as the climate warms.
New research shows that rising temperatures and shorter winters in Alaska have helped moose conquer vast new stretches of territory. Food for the foraging animals is growing rapidly, ushering them into previously stark tundra. The migration likely is not just happening in Alaska but in Canada and northern Russia. "It's an adaptation that at least gives us hope that moose as a species can be maintained," Kantar says.
Experts suggest that the moose migration, primarily along rivers and streams that flow into the Arctic Ocean for hundreds of kilometers, might be one of the most dramatic wildlife shifts linked to climate change.
Not only are the moose munching on their food supply, the birds' nutritional loss is also likely to be followed by that of boreal predators such as red fox or lynx. He is even concerned about how the vegetation might shift - as moose browse willow but leave alder alone - and how that might affect the wildlife as well. "I don't know how it's all going to shake out," he says.
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He was made into moosemeat...
Ask this guy how its going to shake out with so many more bears who follow moose with young relentlessly until they kill the calves. He won’t want to talk about that little factoid.
Moose fatten up in the fall and don’t eat much in winter. They just burn calories until spring comes, and they hope they ate enough in the fall so they won’t starve before spring. How does shorter winters and longer growing seasons hurt them?
This is a terrible dilemma. The Brain worm is on the endangered species list.
This is a terrible dilemma. The Brain worm is on the endangered species list.
Call the climate change hotline and explain there’s moose everywhere.
Let the reader make up his mind whether Climate Change is good or bad for moose. And whether more moose is good or bad for the environment.
Then set up competing organizations, one for moose support, one for eradication.
Then watch the money roll in...
“The Stupid. It burns.”
Liberals will mistake their final judgement for “Global Warming”.
Not a real firm grasp of statistics, I see.
While mankind has no capability to change the temperatures of the Earth, it would be beneficial to humanity if global temperatures were about 10 degrees warmer everywhere. For example, moose are notoriously aggresive, and a warmer climate could potentially reduce that aggression.
Give this argument some thought:
“Global Warmists”, or “Climate Alarmists”, or whatever that faction of Environmentalism is best named these days, want very much to prevent “man caused destruction of the environment”. Since “climate change” by definition is the natural state of the earth and its climate, efforts to somehow intercede on their part, however foolish or Quixotic, are contrary to their meme, arguably “anti nature”.
Their weak and easily dis proven thesis of man caused CO2 based “greenhouse effect” is not only deliberately fraudulent, it is unscientific by accepted standards of scientific logic. They offer no reproducible or observational evidence that any aspect of their argument is valid. Instead there is plenty of evidence of deliberate fraud, manipulation, and distortion of data on part of this movement’s supposed scientific authority.
Thus, it is they who are attempting to alter the worlds climate, however ineffectively. If all fossil fuel use ended today, resulting in the collapse of the world economy, the deaths of millions by starvation and hypothermia, there would be no appreciable difference in the measurable rate of climate change. It would do what it is going to do, period. Contrary to their fantasies, the resulting economic collapse would result in the widespread expansion of low tech, survival based burning of wood, coal, unrefined petroleum, and worse, maximizing pollution and CO2 emissions, which they so decry. They are therefore the movement that needs to be charged with environmental sabotage, certainly a RICO crime, worthy of heavy punishment.
Sorry, logic got the better of me, I am sure it won’t happen in the future, certainly not on any “Climate Alarmist’s” part.
Let me go out on a limb here and predict-
Yes. Every last one will either thrive or die because of climate change.
will moose be able to handle a rise in tempurature of about 0.8 degrees?
Nope- I suspect they will spontaneously combust into flame with such a drastic heat increase- You will be able to witness from space ‘moose flames’ all over the world- the whole northern hemisphere will be aglow with moose running around on fire- there will be no more daylight- moose fires will light up the nights-
If there’s more than one Moose, are they called Mece?
If a worst case two degree temperature change wipes moose out, (1) that is a miracle because they have already survived worse, and (2) any species so delicate that two degrees is too much is going to die anyways, so I don’t care.
Moose are in greater danger from wolves. Since wolves were
introduced back into these areas, Moose and elk populations
have diminished.
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