With all the shootings, deaths, hackings and just mind numbing gossip I had thought that the issue of climate change was off the radar at least until the 2016 campaigns……but it appears that I may have been mistaken…….
Think back for a moment…..recall when the big news was the cow farts was the leading cause of climate change?
Well there seems that ‘science’ and I use the term loosely has found a new culprit to blame for the changes…….anyway it is a culprit you would never suspect……
We were just trying to help. Turns out the efforts of humankind to save beavers from extinction over the past century have had an eco-unfriendly side effect: The animals, whose population has rebounded, are contributing to climate change, researchers say at EurekAlert. Beaver dams create shallow ponds, which can host growing levels of carbon as biological material accumulates on the floor. The result is methane, a greenhouse gas that doesn’t dissolve in the ponds; instead, it travels into the atmosphere. These days, beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900, when centuries of hunting threatened the animals with extinction.
Today, the animals are definitely doing better; in fact, there are about 10 million of them, researchers in Canada figured in a new study. One result of that is some 16,000 square miles of dammed ponds, which has led to the release of some 882,000 tons of methane, or 15% of what deer, antelope, and other cud-chewing wild creatures produce. And that figure could grow, says a researcher. Beavers aren’t the only rodents to blame for climate change, the Independent reports: Arctic squirrels are doing their share, too, say US scientists. They dig burrows, which warms the ground and helps melt permafrost, where carbon has been building up “for tens of thousands of years,” an expert explains. (Meanwhile, swamp rats are shrinking Louisiana.)
Will the ‘deniers’ now support a jihad aimed at beavers? They were quick to jump on cows farting. And what about those damn ground squirrels?
There you have the big news in climate science….BTW the other story mentioned in that piece is also as interesting as this one……get it a try.
I am convinced that the battle over the “belief in climate change” won’t last much longer…
I think in a couple of years even Republicans will agree that we need to do something about it.
And then maybe we’ll actually do more about it….
I hope you are right…..if people will stop listening to BS and do some research they could learn a lot….I would like to wish a very happy holiday season….chuq
Most pollution and gas comes from he White House, Senate and House. I am a climate change believer though. That particulate pollution ring around the earth does not allow a great deal of the sun’s heat to bounce off the earth as it would normally. (greens house effect). South Florida sea level risen 7-9 inches since 1920 and 2014 the hottest year on record since mid 1880’s when earth temps were first recorded.
South Florida like South Mississippi will be hit if the water continues to rise…..2014 was not so bad here….cooler than 2013…..Carl have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year…..chuq
Oh dear god in heaven. This has to be a ploy by the fossil fuel industry. These sources of carbon and methane are built into our ecosystem. They’re natural. The extraction of carbon-based materials buried miles below the earth’s surface and burned up in mass quantities for profit is not.
It’s no wonder that people who don’t pay close enough attention to this issue are still confused about man’s carbon foot print and how it is slowly threatening the world we live in.
Cow farts, beavers and ground squirrels…..can they get more ridiculous?