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Reported in The Guardian:
Climate change is bringing animals out of hibernation prematurely, making them lose weight and causing them stress, Italian scientists said yesterday. Spring-like temperatures too early in the year are waking animals up sooner and putting their feeding and breeding habits out of kilter with the environment.
Meanwhile, in Canada:
Bears in the suburbs north of Vancouver have been coming out of hibernation as hungry as ever but later than usual this spring because of a heavier than normal snowpack from the winter. The report Thursday was one of six complaints police said they received about bears in the area that day.
Not cold enough for some; too cold for others. Why can’t the weather be perfect all the time? I blame humans.
(Via Peter N.)
Climate change is bringing animals out of hibernation prematurely, making them lose weight and causing them stress, Italian scientists said yesterday.
No, it’s all those Italian scientists zipping around on their Vespas, playing pick-up soccer games, and slurping espresso that’s disturbing the slumber of our dumb chums.
Two Italian scientists sitting outside cave of hibernating bear
Dr. Antonetti: So, you thinka she’s-a sleepin’. I thinka shes-a sleepin’.
Dr. Scavola: Whatsamattah for you?!? Can’t-a you hear-a her snore? Sure, she’s-a sleepin’.
Dr. Antonetti: Sluuurrrpp! Ah, that’s-a good espresso! I dunno. I think-a I hear her wakin’ up.
Dr. Scavola: Turns radio on. The strains of Dean Martin’s “Volare” fill the morning air No, goombah, that’s-a my stomach rumbling. I no canna take-a that fake Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti. If you think-a she’s a-wakin’ up, stick-a you head in the cave an’ see.
Dr. Antonetti: Well, ok. Maybe I just-a take a quick peek. Pops head into cave. Hey, bear! You still-a sleepin’?
Roaring noise. Exit two Italian scientists, pursued by bear.
Picking on the seal bashers again eh?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 21 at 01:12 PM • permalinkDidn’t they have this kind of stuff solved by royal decree in Camelot? I am pretty sure that King Arthur sang the Kyoto agreement didn’t he?
“It’s true! It’s true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there’s a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre…”Early hibernation wakings is why I always carry plenty of bear repellent on me when I’m downtown.
The “aboot” is more the Maritimes than elsewhere (speaking of Scots-Irish). And I seem to recall that PBS hoser MacNeil’s The Story [History?] of English documentary also attributing it to the Ottawa Valley.
Good summation, #1. Have you considered applying for a job at the Toronto Star? Just learn to make excuses for the Sunni side of the strata and you’re in.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 21 at 03:26 PM • permalinkSo that’s what happened to Canada! I never knew that there had been a brain drain from Canada to America. Imagine them all settling in the mid-Atlantic states. This group was obviously brighter than that bunch of yahoos who sailed up the Mississippi delta into the swamps of Louisiana and declared themselves home.
So what’s keeping you andyc?
I’m waiting for the amnesty deal to be straightened out first before I cross the border, salty. (And I’ll be finished my Spanish lessons by then too as an added bonus.) Woo-hoo! No more GST!
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 21 at 04:47 PM • permalink#17, 18 etc. Well, as an Oz visiting western Canada, I can tell you that nearly everyone here pronounces things strangely.
And they are dumb too. I have to yell at them very loudly to make them understand.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 21 at 07:04 PM • permalink32 ocaP
?dab taht sI .si “pool kcabdeef etinifni” na tahw wokn t’nod llits I
Nghaaahhh! STOP STOP you’re making it worse!!
Posted by Huck Foley on 2006 06 21 at 08:10 PM • permalinkGo ahead and sneer, hosers. We still got your Cup.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 21 at 08:14 PM • permalink#28, Brian,
A late spring in Germany just shows that Algore is right and global warming is real. You said yourself that it was the coldest May 31st in 40 years. This proves that the higher ocean levels caused by the melting of the ice caps have caused the warm waters of the Gulf Stream to spin into a gigantic whirlpool and finally disappear into the Bermuda Triangle. If it gets any warmer, all of Greenland, Iceland, Britain, Ireland, and large swaths of Europe will be under ice.
8==^(
You’re so cruel, Richard, just like Tim to that poor fellow from the Age. Cruel but true.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 21 at 10:25 PM • permalinkClimate change is bringing animals out of hibernation prematurely, making them lose weight . . .
The shorter the hibernation, the less weight an animal loses. The above opening would be appropriate for a longer hibernation period.
/Global Warming Scientists® making shiat up for International Grant Money©
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Goodness sakes, I think there’s a loose frammis coil on this degibbricizer… maybe if I just tighten it up a bit ... ah!
OF LITTLE BRAIN. SPELL IT OUT! FRONTWARDS!!!
Spell what out frontwards?
Posted by Huck Foley on 2006 06 22 at 06:42 AM • permalinkGeez.. It may be amusing now but that is probably the only way you can cope with information of such a magnitude.
The Gulf Stream is slowing because
..one of the “engines” driving the Gulf Stream — the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea — has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.
You can read the rest here, but do pay close attention to paragraph 3.
Further, perturbations in the global weather are to be expected and will account for the VARIATIONS in regional weather that we are expeiencing now..
Perhaps it is all a big lefty plot to crush the fragile and defencless worlds economies, but somehow I doubt that.
Natural forces, whatever you label them, are quite impartial..How funny is that?
Whoops.
Here is the omitted quote..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1602579,00.html43.. Subtle,unexpected turn of questioning..
I believe the consensus amongst level headed, non oil (etc) industry financed scientists is YES.
Have you discovered (an) other plausible, supportable mechanism(s) to account for these increased temperatures of the oceans?Or perhaps they are not really happening and these guys have dropped the ball again..
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/I’m curious about several things here, Drpoll: You say the ice is melting because of global warming caused by human activity. I do not argue with the facts that say the surface temperature of some parts of the worlds oceans are rising. The dispute is in the interpretations of these facts and the extrapolations made as to the consequences. I do not see that we know nearly enough to make valid extrapolations at this point.
Frankly, Drpoll, it isn’t the science that I have the most trouble with, though I certainly do have a problem with much of what is being posited as certain knowledge, based on very scant data. It is the politics involved that makes even the science suspect because of the funding involved. You like to sneer at the oil companies as having a vested interest, but you ignore the vested interests of scientists on the UN, and/or other governmental payrolls. The fact that many of the same people, including scientists, who cry for Kyoto are also those who would like to humiliate, and otherwise bring down the United States, is at least as powerful a motive to lie as that you ascribe to the oil business.
I have seen this same pattern many, many times before. The problems mankind has are the same problems mankind has always had: how to control his environment to assure his survival. There is no standing still; man either progresses or he slides into atavism and mass death. No matter how afraid you are of all you don’t understand, you will not assuage your fear by attempting to stopping man’s progress.
If you would convince others of your argument, you do not pretend knowledge that you don’t have; you do not point to opinion pieces and articles written by ignorant journalists with a political agenda; and you do not link to something that doesn’t say what you say it does (that is a real insult to one’s intelligence). I will add, Drpoll, that if you are actually interested in a reasoned discussion, you do not begin by entering a room and spitting at everyone in sight. If you are hostile, you can expect the hostility to be returned. In spades.
45/46.. Reread your and other posts decrying the possibility of major global changes and the impact on many people and countries. The scientists are being quite dispassionate and cautious with their information, because they know that this is precisely what will happen. Shrill naysayers will sneer at those who suggest a more cautious approach.
47.. The validation of the method is that several past models have been quite accurate.
Or do you deny the reproducibility which is the crux of scientific methodological?I don’t think it is about bringing down the USA. Its much more about dismay, disbelief at the egregious behaviour of the bushites and their unbelievable criminality, stupidity and ignorance.
95% of pretty much the entire world population and more than 60% of the US population disapprove (as you must be aware) of their performance, integrity and faith.
Kyoto is a start. If that is seen as a political attack on the USA (and other energy profligates like Australia) then that is because of obfuscation by involved and interested parties.
But that is off topic.You put energy into a closed sytem, it heats up Warm Ice melts. Warm water expands.
That is physics.
There is nothing political, sociological, metaphysical, economic, etc etc about that.
Only the possible consequences on a global scale.Mankind in the shape of different cultures has certainly had many problems in the past re resource depletion an environmental dergradation and failure to see them coming or adapt to them has sometimes led to the demise of those different cultures.
It is only since the industrial age that we have been able to do this on a truly global scale.
I fail to see how consideration of how to minimise/ameliorate possible global upheaval is
“..attempting to stopping man’s progress…
Finally you know nothing of my knowledge, age or experience. So please don’t presume I am “deficient” in those areas, compared to you. Nor should you assign motives or emotions to me. Safer to stay with the facts and the science…
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O/T: NYC more polite than Toronto.
Torontonians responded by saying that they’re much more polite than the stupid, brainless, imperialistic, violent, gun-toting, fat, fat, FAT, FAT swinish xenophobic slobbering racist imbecile Americans.
In other news, Canada is superior because Americans are nationalistic and Canadians aren’t.