Only in Tijuana...
Posted on 05/14/2010 9:11:27 AM PDT by worst-case scenario
The worst-case scenario of the consequences of global warming - mass extinctions - appears to be a reality for lizards, according to a new report in Science.
The authors found that 12 percent of local populations of lizards have already disappeared from hundreds of sites in Mexico. Furthermore, within the next 70 years, the authors predict that 1 in 5 lizard species will no longer exist anywhere on the planet, all the result of rising global temperatures.
Although a growing amount of data is showing the impact of climate change on species, these lizard extinctions were somewhat surprising, said Jack Sites, an evolutionary geneticist from Brigham Young University, and last author on the paper. "I had always presumed that lizards would be able to adapt to climate change by simply altering their behavior," he said. "However, this is not the case."
Read more: Warming extinguishing lizards - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57403/#ixzz0nv95XMU0
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At least they don't seem to be attributing rising temperatures to the activity of mankind.
“The Scientist” has lied itself into incredibility over global warming.
That’s one good benefit of globull warming then!
(They gross me out)
They can come and get some of the lizards and skinks from my house. I have MORE than enough.
Mexicans are eating the lizards, maybe? Mexicans are not feeding their cats, and the cats are eating the lizards?
Why must this have anything to do with global warming?
Sounds like total BS to me.
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I’m up here in the NorthEast and freezing my butt off and they’re complaining about lizards and climate change. Lizards like it hot. That’s why they live in the desert.
My first thought also.
Either eating the little Geico Geckos or trampling them to death.
We had this story yesterday for lunch. ;-)
Seems to me that the lizards would simply start appearing further north.
The entire history of the earth is about extinctions. Why should today be any different. Adapt or Die. Those are the rules.
Only in Tijuana...
There are lots of possibilities. Habitat destruction, a new invasive predator, *colder* than usual temperatures, cyclical disease in the populations. “Scientists” can be really dumb sometimes.
Unfathomable. How can this world ever be expected to survive a widespread lizard extinction? Certainly no such lizard genocides have ever occurred without man-made environmental catastrophes.
Whatever shall we do?
Perhaps someone will eventually (maybe 65 million years from now) find a way to build a theme park where people can view these extinct lizards from the comfort of their car. Michael Crichton would be proud.
SnakeDoc
Exactly.
Colder for sure, I live in the North East, and I can testify to that.
And when they mention habitat destruction, how much of this is caused by invasive species these same wing-nuts have brought here?
Or too many deer that can’t be shot except when and where our “officials” say we can?
One minor detail here....we are not warming anymore and have not since 98. Next!
Bad news for the “V”
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