Comments on: Most Arctic Animals Should Deal With Climate Change Just Fine http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/most-arctic-animals-should-deal-with-climate-change-just-fine/ Keeping You Current Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:46:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: JPMajor http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/most-arctic-animals-should-deal-with-climate-change-just-fine/comment-page-1/#comment-3671 JPMajor Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:03:14 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=8906#comment-3671 Before this independent study gets misconstrued as a rallying cry for the "benefits" of global warming please look over the ACTUAL report for perspective. Especially the conclusions, which state: "We conclude that large magnitudes of climate change do not necessarily equate to substantial loss of species, provided that dispersal ability is not hampered, but suggest that changes in species interactions, limitations to successful colonization and human impacts related to climate change may threaten species, even when areas are predicted to still be largely suitable to their environmental needs under new climatic conditions. Our study has clear implications regarding the necessity to include future climate change and concurrent changes in community composition in conservation planning. Current protected areas may not provide species with their future requirements." So not only is warming occuring, but it will have implications - very possibly detrimental to many species - beyond the direct rising of temperatures and migration thus resulting on the ecosystem... implications which this study DOES recognize. Find the report here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0052574 Before this independent study gets misconstrued as a rallying cry for the “benefits” of global warming please look over the ACTUAL report for perspective. Especially the conclusions, which state:

“We conclude that large magnitudes of climate change do not necessarily equate to substantial loss of species, provided that dispersal ability is not hampered, but suggest that changes in species interactions, limitations to successful colonization and human impacts related to climate change may threaten species, even when areas are predicted to still be largely suitable to their environmental needs under new climatic conditions. Our study has clear implications regarding the necessity to include future climate change and concurrent changes in community composition in conservation planning. Current protected areas may not provide species with their future requirements.”

So not only is warming occuring, but it will have implications – very possibly detrimental to many species – beyond the direct rising of temperatures and migration thus resulting on the ecosystem… implications which this study DOES recognize.

Find the report here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0052574

]]> By: Peter Brandt Nielsen http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/most-arctic-animals-should-deal-with-climate-change-just-fine/comment-page-1/#comment-3668 Peter Brandt Nielsen Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:30:10 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=8906#comment-3668 The key word here seems to be "Europe." The study is only about the northernmost parts of the European continent, not the rest of the Arctic. This distinction is not kept clear in the Smithsonian's article, which ended up with an even bolder headline here: http://nation.foxnews.com/climate-change/2013/01/09/study-global-warming-helps-polar-bears The key word here seems to be “Europe.” The study is only about the northernmost parts of the European continent, not the rest of the Arctic. This distinction is not kept clear in the Smithsonian’s article, which ended up with an even bolder headline here:

http://nation.foxnews.com/climate-change/2013/01/09/study-global-warming-helps-polar-bears

]]> By: Neil Murray http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/most-arctic-animals-should-deal-with-climate-change-just-fine/comment-page-1/#comment-3495 Neil Murray Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:34:58 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=8906#comment-3495 This article is counterintuitive, to say the least. The disappearance of the arctic ice cap will push polar bears permanently south to solid ground, where they will likely be unwelcome and probably shot. This article is counterintuitive, to say the least. The disappearance of the arctic ice cap will push polar bears permanently south to solid ground, where they will likely be unwelcome and probably shot.

]]> By: Gerald Smith http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/most-arctic-animals-should-deal-with-climate-change-just-fine/comment-page-1/#comment-3471 Gerald Smith Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:25:17 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=8906#comment-3471 Oh my, more cold water (pardon the pun) thrown on the global warming deniers. If they were on trial there would be enough evidence against them to put them away for a long time. Oh my, more cold water (pardon the pun) thrown on the global warming deniers. If they were on trial there would be enough evidence against them to put them away for a long time.

]]> By: mememine69 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/most-arctic-animals-should-deal-with-climate-change-just-fine/comment-page-1/#comment-3021 mememine69 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:55:47 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=8906#comment-3021 Boycott the fear mongering climate crisis news editors. Boycott the fear mongering climate crisis news editors.

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