Lizard Extinctions Blamed on Global Warming







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When it comes to the hazards of global warming, it may turn out that lizards in burrows are the canaries in the coal mine.



In a study to be published Friday in the journal Science, an international team of biologists reports that in more than one-tenth of the places in Mexico where lizards flourished in 1975 the reptiles now cannot be found. The researchers predict that by 2080 about 40 percent of local lizard populations worldwide will have died off, and 20 percent of lizard species will be extinct.



The reason for the huge die-off appears to be rising temperatures. But it isn't heat that is killing the lizards directly. Instead, global warming appears to be lengthening the period of the day when lizards must seek shelter or run the risk of heat stroke. In the breeding season, that sheltering period is now so long that females of many species are unable to eat enough food to produce eggs and offspring.







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Just more AR Hocus Pocus...We gotta do something or else...



Remember when they said the turtles were all disappearing and going to China for food? How inhumane! That big lie was the foundation to ban the turtle hobby, state by state. Same text printed verbatim from state to state in newspapers. The only variables were localities and cited individuals.



That statement to me seems to be such a broad sweeping unprovable generality. Can't wait to see the data. Well, you know, Professors gotta publish. That's a fact.



That whole explanation sounds rather far fetched.



Shut down the turtles. Shut down the big snakes. Shut down the frogs. Shut down the lizards. Shut down all snakes. Sound familiar?



I'm a skeptic.



jsc
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