The Sixth Thing To Know About Climate Change–Nat Geographic
April 15, 2017
By Paul Homewood
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/04/seven-things-to-know-about-climate-change/
In 1982, HH Lamb wrote about how the ranges of birds and fishes had moved poleward in the first half of the 20thC.
When the Earth started cooling around 1960, this movement was reversed. All that animal and plant species are doing is returning to where they were a half a century or so ago.
HH Lamb: Climate, History and the Modern World – p264
There are many threats facing eco systems, but a barely noticeable increase in temperature is not one of them.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Oh my, how we should mourn the passing of quiet, knowledgeable and thorough scientists like HHL.
Our modern Uni’s are unlikely to produce more like him.
A little deja vu perspective for all the National Geographic alarmists? Drinkwater, 2006 wrote: “Ecosystem changes associated with the warm period included a general northward movement of fish. Boreal species of fish such as cod, haddock and herring expanded farther north while colder-water species such as capelin and polar cod retreated northward. The warming in the 1920s and 1930s is considered to constitute the most significant regime shift experienced in the North Atlantic in the 20th century.”
Click to access 55e4676208aecb1a7ccb48b9.pdf
News from Washington State:
I haven’t seen a Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) since the Pacific Ocean Shift of ’76-77.
I think they have all gone to British Columbia.
They don’t need passports.
So, the little rodent survived 400 feet of SLR between 8-16K years ago (sometimes as much as 60 feet in one century – per an old Nat’l Geo article) but vanished because it’s perhaps one degree warming, and SLR has slowed to 7 in/100 years?
This was thoroughly debunked in 2016.
http://joannenova.com.au/2016/06/only-one-mammal-on-tiny-island-supposedly-wiped-out-by-climate-that-has-always-changed/
The Cay is right in front of the Fly River estuary, so their habitat could conceivably have been affected
Cays, or keys are not islands but shifting, ephemeral sand deposits and come and go with tides, cyclones and weather events. The species of rat sadly has not been recorded since 2007 – sightings since then are unconfirmed.. and sadly none in the latest 2 surveys. The upside is, this was a subspecies, most likely isolated from PNG
I used to fish Bramble cay in the 80′s and 90′s….. The melomys most likely get there by floating on debris flushed from the Fly river. You always get large logs, whole trees and masses of Nipa palm roots and trunks floating past the cay… and I mean lots, and big rafts of the stuff.
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Pelagic species tend to move where the food goes, it’s pretty simple stuff, Oceans are dynamic bodies and temperatures of the waters for all sorts of reasons do fluctuate, consequently, the fish respond. Benthic dwellers not so much but even these are susceptible, I don’t see how these
fishing expertsmarine biologists who should think in terms of a much more gradual earthly time span, who can maintain a straight face when according cataclysmic conclusions to what are only natural movements of life in our Oceans, it’s just such utter [scientology] bollocks.From Darwin’s The Origin of Species
Chapter III – THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
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I thought I would try to check the veracity of the claim that the Bramble Cay melomy, is the first documented case of a mammal being driven to extinction by climate change.
According to Wikipedia
“Bramble Cay, also called Maizab Kaur,[1] Massaramcoer or Baramaki, and located at the northeastern edge of the Torres Strait Islands of Queensland and at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef,[3] is the northernmost point of land of Australia. It is 55 kilometres (34 mi) southeast of the mouth of the Fly River of Papua New Guinea. ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramble_Cay
The closest PSMSL tide gauge I can find is at Ince Point and I can detect no recent rise in sea level from that (albeit without detailed analysis).
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/1300.php
Other nearby gauges are similar and I can therefore only conclude that this is yet another example of confirmation bias.
I have no doubt that the low lying nature of the location, and the sea, played a part in this creatures extinction, but can it be blamed on “climate change”?
quaesoveritas:
See This was thoroughly debunked in 2016.
http://joannenova.com.au/2016/06/only-one-mammal-on-tiny-island-supposedly-wiped-out-by-climate-that-has-always-changed/
and the comments esp. the ones above. There is no evidence that this was a distinct specie but rather a mainland type washed down the Fly river onto the cay.
If it was so critical to populate the Cay why didn’t they do something in the 9 years from whence it disappeared?
Thanks,
I am not so much concerned with whether the animal was unique or made extinct as whether there is any evidence whatsoever to support the “climate change” had any influence in the matter.
When an asteroid hits the Earth and wipes out 50% of all life on the surface, will any of the idiots be alive and wondering if they were right to try and save rats from extinction? Probably too stupid even with an asteroid sitting on their eco-homes.
I suspected this link would provide a fertile hunting ground, Paul. Good work bringing it to a wider audience. 🙂
This crock is one of the biggest deceptions in AR4 WG2. Despite deliberately false surface appearances in two separate tables, relies on exactly one deeply flawed study. Flawed three separate ways. Wrote it up in essay No Bodies.
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PART 6 – “There are many threats facing eco systems, but a barely noticeable increase in temperature is not one of them.”
Dear Mr Homewood
Re the GWPF report no. 24 on Climate Science, thereâs a paper by Michael Mann with a hockey stick and other purported evidence of rising world temperatures.
As his reputation is that of a very enthusiastic supporter of AGW, and as it seems to be a restatement of his earlier opinions (called âpaleo-temperature reconstructions (the so-called âHockey Stick)â¦â by Professor Judith Curry in the same report), I wonder if you have you have commented on his recent testimony?
Yours sincerely,
Michael Woolgar
P.S. Have you seen Professor Ratzerâs paper attached?