Posted on 09/15/2017 9:49:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Venomous snakes are among the most feared animals in the world, and they may start slithering into new places.
Yanez-Arenas: “So as our climate changes, so too will the potential for a species to expand their ranges and come in contact with people they never will have before.”
Carlos Yanez-Arenas is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2015, while a post-doc at the University of Kansas, he used climate models to predict where dozens of species of snakes will be able to live by 2050.
He found that with warmer temperatures, many snakes, such as copperheads and some species of rattlesnake, will be able to survive farther north than in the past. How far the snakes move will depend on how much the climate warms.
For example, if carbon emissions are limited and warming is minimal, the copperhead could move into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and parts of Illinois.
But if emissions are not reduced and warming continues unchecked, the venomous copperhead could be able to live in Michigan, New York, and parts of New England.
More snakes could mean more snake bites – that’s bad news for people who enjoy spending time outdoors.
I should think they’d head south. it’s getting warmer in teh Southern Hemisphere, but it’s approaching fall and winter (the colder times of year, for teh information of Warmists) in the Northern Hemisphere.
“For example, if carbon emissions are limited and warming is minimal, the copperhead could move into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and parts of Illinois.
But if emissions are not reduced and warming continues unchecked, the venomous copperhead could be able to live in Michigan, New York, and parts of New England”
Hey dill weed, copperheads have been in all those states...except Michigan...since the end of the last ice age.They followed the melting ice as far as they could and stopped.
Gobal warmers are sick and disgusting.
Science denier!
That is OK with me, as long as the snakes keep eating mice and rats.
See/ So that proves their theory, right?
“The closer you get to Canada, the more’s the things that eat horses.”
The Missouri Breaks
If these climate change/global warming zealots are serious, they can and should put their energy into the USA adopting Thorium energy.
Any Al Gore type who will not entertain that solution isn’t serious about solving this do-called ‘problem’.
In Connecticut there is a mountain called Rattlesnake Mountain.
Is this in the same category that KILLER BEES were moving northward and we would all be stung to death?
I grew up in Illinois and we had plenty of copperheads there in the 60's.
This guy is short on facts.
Don’t worry, Copperheads are the least poison of the poison snakes in this country. Their bites can be treated easily enough. Don’t ignore the bites however.
We could also open new beaches in Alaksa and Canada but that hasnt happened yet either.
“The Northern Copperhead has been in those states forever”
Correct! I can take you to an ole well-head just South of Cleveland, pop the cover, and there will be 4 or 5 curled up down there! A late friend of mine was the head Ranger for the Cuyahoga Valle Park. He was adamant, “’No Copperheads up here!”” Took him for a ride, and changed his mind!
A new threat to the polar bears caused by global warming.
Oh nooooooeeeessss!
So he’s saying that central american snakes are going to cross the Sonoran Desert? Very doubtful.
Putz.
They crawl up your *ss and freeze you to death. You and I must’ve listened to the same jokester. I too was in the USAF in 1958 in Galena, Alaska.
No snakes in New England? Sorry, I think snakes are there, copperhead are there!
A friend of mine has seen copperheads in Massachusetts (in the Berkshires). They've been in that area for as long as he and anyone else there can remember, so how exactly would "global warming" be the reason for copperheads turning up in Pennsylvania, which is further south and warmer than Massachusetts?
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