Climate change could send venomous snakes slithering north

Toronto Star ^ | March 7, 2016 | By Raveena Aulakh

[VRWCmember]

New research has found that rising temperatures could drive several deadly species northward to new areas, bringing them across the U.S. border with Canada. By 2050, some snakes could make their way as far north as Alberta, Quebec and southern Ontario

They should be more worried about all the liberals threatening to move to Canada if a republican wins the presidency this November.

[subterfuge]

I don’t mind spiders and I like snakes. Cockroaches on the other hand...

[subterfuge]

Polar bears, not post bears!

[PIF]

Spiders are in the queue.

[moehoward]

The wall just got ten feet deeper.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Tonight's Feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is The Giant Venomous Vipers from Venezuela Who Attacked Des Moines

[Ditter]

Texas had a fabulous winter too, just right, cool enough, not freezing. It still is nice here, beautiful spring, the azaleas and trees are blooming.

[DoughtyOne]

Well, the point is, it has been colder this year than in recent years. So much for global warming.

[Twinkie]

I put out diatomaceous earth in hidden places that get shed
of all kinds of pests. (You have to put it out where no one
can get it on their hands!) It dries out bugs of all kinds
when they crawl through it. It’s not poison, but injures the
eyes if it gets in them. I dusted it all round the edges of
the rooms before the carpet was installed. It never goes
bad. It’s just the skeletons of little prehistoric bugs that
all died at once and collected out west somewhere. Now used
to dry out bugs & worm your animals. I’d rather use it than
poisons.

[Ditter]

Here in Houston we only had one time that it got down to freezing at my house. Not too much rain, tomorrow we may flood but the winter has been a little on the dry side. Perfect!

[subterfuge]

Awesome idea! I happen to have a large bag of diatomaceous earth. Use it for my pool filter. Thanks!

[DoughtyOne]

We may have gotten down to freezing once here. Not sure abou that. I was close a few nights.

We went for about six weeks with nights in the 30s, 40, or low 50s. That’s unusual for us.

We’re back there again right now for a couple of weeks.

Ouch!

Seems funny to mention it with the bad weather back east. This is only meant to address on global warming, and I don’t think it is supported with our figures.

It warmed up a few days, and the weather folks started talking about global warming again. They’re hooked!

[DoughtyOne]

Glad you did have a nice winter. Great.

[AmericanVictory]

By 2030 the dinosaurs will be back, eating giant ferns in all the suburbs.

[DaveA37]

What are they going to do, take a bus up there? Even if they were transported up there, deadly snakes MAY try living in the north country during the summer but come winter they will freeze out. “Global warming” is not going to set the woods on fire when the earth temperature in Canada reaches well below 30 degrees F. Global warming is more tin hat theory, not science.

[Ditter]

We have a California relative who is all in with global warming. I think he has met Algore and drank some of his bulls**t flavored koolaide. I mentioned the damage that a volcano or two could do to our planet and he said OH NO fossil fuels are much much worse. Glad I don't have to talk to him very often.

[driftless2]

The area I live in is known as the Driftless Area...the area of western Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, and northeastern Iowa relatively untouched by the last glacier. The gigantic ice sheet that covered most of the upper U.S. did not bulldoze the area like other places. That left a lot of limestone and sandstone hills and bluffs. Those are great places for rattlesnakes.

Some years ago one nationally known snake expert I talked to at a nature hike in the area said it was one of the best places in the country to find rattlers. So we went out on a hike on one of the bluffs in the area.

As we just entered a relatively treeless part of the bluff called a goat prairie, he walked up to a boulder, looked a bit underneath, took out his snake stick, and pulled out two rattlers. I'm glad when I hiked the bluffs frequently when I was younger that I never stuck my hand underneath a large rock.

[DoughtyOne]

[Twinkie]

NO! NO! NO! NO! - FOOD GRADE Diatomaceous Earth! The kind
used for pool filters is POISONOUS!! To both humans and
animals! - Please reply!

[To Hell With Poverty]

I think one of those post bears got your post! ;)