Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Bird Today, Gone Tomorrow

The Audubon Society uses failing IPCC program projections to create disaster scenarios for the birds:
Hundreds of bird species at risk due to climate change

"According to the study, these state birds will all be pushed out of their states completely or will become rare in their states if climate change continues on its current trajectory:

--Idaho and Nevada: Mountain Bluebird
--Louisiana: Brown Pelican
--Maryland: Baltimore Oriole
--Minnesota: Common Loon
--New Hampshire: Purple Finch
--Pennsylvania: Ruffed Grouse
--Utah: California Gull
--Vermont: Hermit Thrush
--Washington, D.C.: Wood Thrush

Using computer models of various future climate scenarios as determined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Audubon scientists uncovered the climate sensitivity of 588 species of North American birds, combining four decades of historical bird data and climate date to predict down to a 100-square-kilometer grid how the birds will respond.

There are about 800 species of birds in North America, Langham says, so this study accounts for nearly 75% of North American birds."
The list is too long; it should contain just one item: the AGW cuckoo. What we know for certain is that the warming models don't work for short periods of time; they need more time, is the mantra. I'm thinking maybe ten thousand years, which is geologically a blink. On the other hand, if all the warming is truly at the bottom of the oceans which are selfishly hoarding it, maybe the oceans will give it up in one big eructation as a life-scorching, steamy belch. That could doom all life, except of course the thermal vent microbes which will have to start all over to create sponges > dinosaurs > birds/mammals/Leftists/humans.

Or maybe we could just go with what we observe, rather than government-funded disaster-guaranteeing computer programs...

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