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natsamjosh
at Thu Feb 21 20:49:59 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by natsamjosh ]
Thanks Bill. But check out the maps at the bottom of the following government web page:
www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1875&from=rss_home
This isn't even junk science, it's outright stupidity, if not dishonesty. Before I saw these maps, I was thinking that the expanded Python range was estimated *after* the assumed global warming. But no, it is being claimed that Burmese Pythons, as of today, can survive in a large portion of the country. Anyone with even basic knowledge of snakes knows Burmese pythons cannot survive the winters in most of the areas in that range. I live in North Carolina (which is in the range), and right now it's 39 degrees. A google search of care sheets for Burmese pythons shows that the night-time low temps should be in the mid to high 70's. Maybe the "scientists" at the USFW and USGGS don't know how to do a Google search????
And we're supposed to trust these agencies that are charged with protecting our environment?? Scary.
Thanks,
Ed
>>I'm with you Ed. Junk science x2 indeed. I don't know what the threshold is to establish a self-supporting population of any exotic reptile in the 'Glades, but I'm sceptical it has been reached. And I question why it seems its always the Burmese Python that is the indentified culprit..other tropical reptiles have been common trade in southern Florida for decades: why not new world boids, for example?
>>Anyway, just my thoughts...not to be confused with data. But from what I've read, objective data on the subject is rare to non-existant. Of course that's no reason to disuade policy makers...
>>Bill
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But wait, it gets even worse!!! - natsamjosh, Thu Feb 21 20:49:59 2008