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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.
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They have been slithering north since `86.
Funny, as far as I know timber rattle and copperhead snakes are indigenous in places indicated by Yale. The increase of boas and anacondas in the Everglades is due to releases of pet snakes.
I’m more concerned about fire ants.
Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus - New ... - New Jersey
www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/end-thrtened/tmbrrattler.pdf
Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus ... species of snake found in New Jersey. Timber rattlesnakes have dark brown to black ... New Hampshire, New York, Vermont ...
Actually the snow snake is a game the Indians used to play in winter when they would carve a long limb to look like a straight snake, then sling it through a snow trench to see how far it would go.
And yes. I was warned about how they would “freeze” me to death.
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Snakes are tasty and the eat rats, sounds great!
“For example, if carbon emissions are limited and warming is minimal, the copperhead could move into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and parts of Illinois.” I grew up in Ohio, I lived in PA, there have been there since I was a babe.
I think most of them are on Congress by now anyway.
Is this for real? Copperhead snakes have been here in the northern United States for who knows how long already.
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