Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the BBC cockroaches will survive, but Pandas and humans won’t make it. Reptiles are also doomed because they can’t regulate their body temperature.
The animals that will survive climate change
With one in every four species facing extinction, which animals are the best equipped to survive the climate crisis? (Spoiler alert: it’s probably not humans).By Christine Ro
5 August 2019“I don’t think it will be the humans. I think we’ll go quite early on,” says Julie Gray with a laugh. I’ve just asked Gray, a plant molecular biologist at the University of Sheffield, which species she thinks would be the last ones standing if we don’t take transformative action on climate change. Even with our extraordinary capacity for innovation and adaptability, humans, it turns out, probably won’t be among the survivors.
This is partly because humans reproduce agonisingly slowly and generally just one or two at a time – as do some other favourite animals, like pandas. Organisms that can produce many offspring quickly may have a better shot at avoiding extinction.
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Another source of uncertainty has to do with life forms’ capacity to adapt. Take ectotherms (cold-blooded animals like reptiles and amphibians), which have historically been slower to adapt to climatic change than endotherms. For one thing, they are less able to adjust their body temperatures. But there are exceptions, like the American bullfrog, which may actually find more habitable environments as a consequence of warming.
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The historical record does point to the tenacity of cockroaches. These largely unloved critters “have survived every mass extinction event in history so far”, says Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, a soil biogeochemist at the University of California, Merced. For instance, cockroaches adapted to an increasingly arid Australia, tens of millions of years ago, by starting to burrow into soil.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190730-the-animals-that-will-survive-climate-change
Anyone who thinks reptiles have a problem with warm temperatures has never visited Australia. And I’m not just talking about our politicians.
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“Even the animals, that survive will not be cute and cuddly”
.. isn’t that the famous Tim Flannery quote ?
Australian Humorist Barry Humphries some years ago launched “Save the Funnel Web Spider”, ( ‘It’s endangered, you know’), as a joke as a fake charity, along with “Friends of Prostate Cancer”.
It’s hard being a humorist when the BBC are intent on trumping your material.
If the BBC is right about climate then it can be proud of the fact it is the biggest promoter of scepticism of all.
As a supposedly reputable source of reliable data it has a duty to tell us the truth. This means if the case is beyond question then it has to show either no questions can be thought up. Clearly this idea is the most ridiculous drivel, or that any question can be answered.
They claim the science is beyond question. Come on BBC instead of the mindless brainwashing rubbish you put out by what are when based purely on the standard they broadcast, sub moron level presenters like Attenborough, put on programs where you go through the accuracy of data collection to show it meet normal engineering standards of QA departments in life critical applications for both numbers of measuring stations compared to the variability of temperatures and for the station quality.
Show the trend analysis meets not the worse than primitive methods of a narrowly trained and out of their depth climate science fraternity but the best in class trend analysis methods.
Show the computer models meet best in class standards for both methodology and for prediction accuracy.
Most important of all show the greatest temperature anomalies match area by area fossil fuel use. Remember where the fuel is used you get both the direct heating and the claimed greenhouse effect. If this does not occur prove matches the CO2 transfers and the the solar radiation in that area matches the temperature rise patterns.
These are all non technical issues readily understood by most TV and radio audiences.
As long as non believers see the BBC corrupted into a mere low end Nazi style brainwashing organisation no action will be taken just because it will not be socially acceptable to well over half the population. They will clearly be surprised at the number who are not willing to have our industrial policies dictated to by a clearly very sub normal teenage activist and a gullible or corrupt “elite”.
When I start having to pay for my licence again I intend to start a campaign of small claims for refunds for failure to meet its charter obligations of impartiality. Of course many who just object to the licence fee might well join in.