Another one for the Climate FAIL file…
USA Today/Associated Press, in 2009:
“They believe the insidious impact of climate change, its tipping of natural balances and disruption of feeding habits, is decimating a species that has long numbered in the millions and supported human life in Earth’s most inhuman climate.”
But, darn those Caribou, they just aren’t acting the way they are supposed to….
A vast herd of northern caribou that scientists feared had vanished from the face of the Earth has been found, safe and sound — pretty much where aboriginal elders said it would be all along.
“The Beverly herd has not disappeared,” said John Nagy, lead author of a recently published study that has biologists across the North relieved.
Those scientists were shaken by a 2009 survey on the traditional calving grounds of the Beverly herd, which ranges over a huge swath of tundra from northern Saskatchewan to the Arctic coast. A herd that once numbered 276,000 animals seemed to have completely disappeared, the most dramatic and chilling example of a general decline in barren-ground caribou.
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“Many of the community people reported that elders think this is nothing new. Caribou move.”
Caribou move? Who knew? Can’t they model that?
h/t to Kate at SDA
Best comment on this story from one of my readers –
Wow! Caribou move about! How about that! I always used to think that they just lay on their backs in the snow on the ground and waved their legs in the air, quite helplessly until they finally froze to death. Perhaps those Poley Bears can move about too! Perhaps the IPCC could get someone to model this dramatic new idea!
Kate, always great to hear from you, loved the comment. For those who do not know her, Kate McMillan is the Canadian genius behind the SmallDeadAnimals.com site. Click on her name above and bookmark her site, it’s a great resource and always full of fun.
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What ever happened to the practice of blaming everything unexplainable on aliens?
So, when they originally proposed that 276000 Caribou had suddenly died to Climate Change, why nobody went and asked the basic question that we have seen Willis ask several times here in WUWT in a more general context? i.e. WHERE ARE THE CORPSES? It is amazing that they can publish something like that and get away with it.
These high priests of the climate need to vacate their computer labs and get out amongst the flora and fauna to discover that the life forms they study are not living in blissful harmony with their environment. There are predators out there as well as bug infestations and of course, bacteria and viruses. A change of a couple degrees is nothing compared to the brutality of living “in harmony” with nature. Anything can devastate a herd of animals one year and that same herd will rebound after a few years … that’s the price of living the brutal life they live. These automatic reflexive actions of the high priests to blame everything on climate change really makes them look … well, like a bunch of ignorant and superstitious high priests.
I refer you to the Monty Python “Woody” sketch – “Caribou gorn!”.
Two words…. confirmation bias
For the BBC …. (By Jennifer Carpenter)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15858603
Commenting on a paper published in Science
The caribous and the Polar bears certainly don’t give a damn about AGW, so why should we?
@raving, I have that story (the original press release) in the que, it comes after this one
Way too much grant money given to these scientists. Loosing caribou herds, seeing dead polar bears in the water?? I talked to a University of Edmonton scientist responsible for the Coke campaign to build a nothern refuge for the polar bears. I asked why he thought the polar bears who have lived through the Eemian, the Holocene so far, through the Roman Warm Period and the MWP, would die out in this warm period? He said he was not a climate scientist but his American climate scientists have told him ithe warming is happening much faster this time. And he believed them, living in Edmonton ??
The caribou probably failed to respond to an online survey. Hardly the scientists fault if the caribou are not going to cooperate. Bloody denialist caribou…
Just another brick in the wall.
Wonderful! Sceptic Caribou take the p/ss out of Climate Alarmist by playing hide and seek better than them!
Maybe they thought no one would check. Not a lot of people up there. It’s like claiming Arctic temperatures are rising–who’s going to go up there and find out they’ve been lying?
The CBC interviewed someone, I miss the opening and the man’s name. Effectively he told the interviewer they were never missing just misplaced. They spoke next to a local hunter, he knew that. “Happens all the time,” he said. No one bothered to ask the people who live there. You know those ignorant hunters who either find the Caribou or starve. Or more probably chose to ignore them, what do they know, their not university grads with all those high tech toys.
So that’s what those hooves are for!
… pretty much where aboriginal elders said it would be all along.
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
@ur momisugly Pete..
gees, I dunno.. those climate alarmists are pretty darn good at playing hide and seek with DATA and METHODS !!
How appropriate an article on “Santa’s Reindeer found on Black Friday!
Just in time for expanded Xmass shopping!
These CAGW people are at least aware of the season, (when money is involved.)
I dunno, I’m not a scientist, just a normal guy with a simple science degree, but i do have a brain me thinks (I think therefore I am?). Wot I wud hev done is just follow them wolves. It’s them that best can track the caribou, them wolves. Or have the scientists modelled that wolves have already died of global warming? LOL.
Well, caribou are very adaptable and mobile animals. Back during the last Ice Age they were down by the Mediterranean, now they’re up in the Arctic. They are even on Spitzbergen which they must have reached by walking over the ice in winter.
During the climatic optimum 6-8,000 years they were even on Franz Joseph’s land, but there they died out when the glaciers re-expanded to cover almost the whole archipelago. There are limits to adaptability even for caribous.
Most amazing of all: there are two thriving herds on South Georgia down in the Antarctic, brought there by Norwegian whalers about 100 years ago. Those animals had to shift ther calving and rutting periods by 6 months in just a few years to survive. Very few animals can do that, so it is a measure of their resilience to environmental changes.
Caribou hooves
are on the move
to places far unknown
But leave them alone
and they’ll come home
nary a climate fraud among ’em
hmmm! still beieving though….
25 Nov: ABC: Global warming rate could be less than feared
By Science Online’s Genelle Weule, wires (AFP)
High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have less of an impact on the rate of global warming than feared, a new study suggests…
But more severe estimates that predict temperatures could rise up to an average of 10 degrees Celsius are unlikely, the researchers report in the journal Science…
The new study suggests temperatures will rise on average 2.3 degrees under the same conditions.
“When you reconstruct sea and land surface temperatures from the peak of the last ice age 21,000 years ago – which is referred to as the Last Glacial Maximum – and compare it with climate model simulations of that period, you get a much different picture,” said lead author Andreas Schmittner, from Oregon State University…
Associate Professor Schmittner notes that many previous studies only looked at periods spanning from 1850 to today, thus not taking into account a fully integrated palaeoclimate data on a global scale…
Professor Colin Prentice from Macquarie University says he is not surprised by the results.
Professor Prentice, who was not involved in the study, says the new paper is based on a careful compilation of data and addresses an issue that is “absolutely central”.
“What it means is we can be a bit more sure about the sort of range of temperature changes that will result from the given change in the amount of fossil fuel and CO2 and other greenhouse gases,” he said.
“The key point is that there has been ongoing buzz about the possibility that the climate sensitivity may be way, way higher than in mainstream climate models.
“So for very technical reasons with data just from contemporary observations and observations from the recent historical period, you just haven’t got enough information to really rule out those numbers.
“What [this study] has shown is that those very high values are ruled out…
The study was funded by the National Science Foundation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-25/global-warming-rate-could-be-less-than-feared/3694896/?site=melbourne
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