Unfortunately evolution progresses at a slower rate than appears to be the
impacts of climate change. I just happened to watch 60 minutes section on
Patagonia and the retreat of the glaciers there is nothing short of horrifying.
David Bishop
> On 25 Jan 2015, at 12:44 pm, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>
> Every "step up" in the evolution of Hominids appears to have been associated
> with a major climatic change. Perhaps the present climatic event may result
> in the demise of Homo sapiens sapiens and the emergence of a more intelligent
> ssp of Homo. I hope so, because the current version is not working very well.
>
> Carl Clifford
>
>
>> On 25 Jan 2015, at 10:51 am, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately Janine there are still those who deny it is happening. And
>> there are some who reluctantly agree it might be happening but could not
>> possibly be the fault of humans.
>>
>> On 25 January 2015 at 09:36, Janine Duffy <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes Laurie, I thought the same thing.
>>>
>>> There is no need to discuss belief in climate change. Its not a religion.
>>> Its science. Let's get on with fighting it.
>>>
>>> Janine
>>>
>>> Sent from my Motorola RAZR™ M on the Telstra Next G™ Network
>>>
>>> Laurie Knight <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes Ian, believers in what?
>>>>
>>>> Even the United States Republican Party accepts that climate change is
>>> happening. Last week the US Senate voted 98-1 that "It is the sense of the
>>> Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax.”
>>> http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-senate-climate-hoax-20150121-story.html
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Laurie.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:59 am, Carl Clifford <>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The believers? What? The Monkees fan club?
>>>>>
>>>>> Carl Clifford
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23 Jan 2015, at 9:10 am, Ian May <> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> H
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Laurie
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not wanting to upset "the believers", I cannot help but wonder if
>>> these researchers ever considered that a decline of Antarctic Krill could
>>> be caused by the exponential increase of Cetaceans that has occurred over
>>> the past two decades. Is it true that a current population estimate of
>>> just one species, the humpback whale has now reached 80,000 individuals?
>>> About five years ago, the population estimate at that time had increased
>>> to 35,000 animals?
>>>>>> See
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans#Global_Population_Estimates
>>> or http://whaleone.com.au/whale-facts/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As a part time researcher from a time nearing the end of the
>>> commercial whaling era when it was rare to sight a large whale in
>>> Australian waters, I occasionally pondered the effects on the pelagic world
>>> from competition on the basic marine food source impacted by the presence
>>> or absence of Cetaceans.
>>>>>> My conclusion was that you cannot have your krill and eat it too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ian May
>>>>>> PO Box 110
>>>>>> St Helens, 7216
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Laurie Knight wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The following study contrasts the fortunes of Chinstrap and Gentoo
>>> Penguins
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120121304.htm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Original study: MJ Polito, WZ Trivelpiece, WP Patterson, NJ
>>> Karnovsky, CS Reiss, SD Emslie. Contrasting specialist and generalist
>>> patterns facilitate foraging niche partitioning in sympatric populations of
>>> Pygoscelis penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015; 519: 221 DOI:
>>> 10.3354/meps11095
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