«That is completely unproven and projected effects of global
warming on bird populations are unsubstantiated.»
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, as monitoring efforts continue, we may see these pretty patterns cut short:
warming temperatures could deplete phytoplankton
populations, which means less fish, squid, and krill for the
birds to feast
on, and could affect whether sooty shearwaters have enough energy to make it back to their New Zealand breeding grounds.
We learned that
bird populations in the North Sea collapsed last year, after the sand eels
on which they feed left its
warmer waters - and how the number of scientific papers recording changes in ecosystems due to global
warming has escalated from 14 to more than a thousand in five years.
Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring
warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains,
bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect
populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes
on and
on.
Was the «expert» prediction correct that modern climate change (i.e., global
warming) would have a significant negative impact
on bird specie
populations?