Congratulations, Xeno, your no.1, yet again! You know you’re doing something right if your work is considered “unprecedented.” Nice going.
Here’s some information.
Every year in the winter the “North American Arctic Goose Conference” occurs. If you’ve ever been to a goose conference you’ll immediately discover one very important feature. It’s extremely democratic. Within a cacophony of quacking, clucking, clacking clicking and picking every imaginable issue from cantankerous personal grievances to group assaults is raised, argued and endlessly discussed. It almost reminds one of a meeting of the British Parliament, except geese don’t have feet with which to stomp as humans do.
Of course, I’m not referring to the “North American Arctic Goose Conference” among humans, which this January will meet in Portland, Oregon. I’m talking about real Goose Conferences.
It just so happens a few years ago at a particular Goose Conference members discussed a very hot item. Well, it was discussed among some of the members, at least. It’s sometimes difficult to know the details of what goes on in these large community gatherings.
The discussion of a “hot” item resulted in a large number of geese “Opting Out of Migration” and to “Elect to Winter in Alaska Instead of Mexico.”
Now, I’m talking here to conferences among the “Pacific brant” variety of geese. It just so happens that meetings among some Canadian Geese resulted in just the opposite. They decided to quit migrating northward, for some mysterious reason. No one is sure why this is happened in Norwalk, CT, although it is thought to be due to the greedy consumption of locally available food.
But, it seems fairly clear why Pacific brants have decided to quit migrating southward. And, that’s because of the food supply made available in the northern regions throughout the year due to climate warming.
So, you see, it’s not just humans who recognize climate warming some of our feathered friends do also.
Sources:
1] 12th North American Arctic Goose Conference and Workshop, January 11th to 15th, 2011,DoubleTree Hotel, Portland
2] Change in abundance of Pacific Brant geese wintering in Alaska: evidence of a climate warming effect
David Ward, Christian Dau, Lee Tibbitts, et al. U.S. Geological Survey
3] Opting Out of Migration: As Climate Warms, Arctic-Nesting Geese Elect to Winter in Alaska Instead of Mexico, 9/9/2009, U.S. Geological Survey
4] David Ward, Austin Reed, James Sedinger, Jeffery Black, “North American Bant: effects of changes in habitat and climate on population dynanics, Global Change Biology (2005) 11, 869‚Äì880
Get real, the bull that you try to feed the public is unprecedented
Dang, what gave us away, Marty? Was it the fact that there is really no such thing as carbon… Or the impossibility of a fire in Alaska?
Congratulations, Xeno, your no.1, yet again! You know you’re doing something right if your work is considered “unprecedented.” Nice going.
Here’s some information.
Every year in the winter the “North American Arctic Goose Conference” occurs. If you’ve ever been to a goose conference you’ll immediately discover one very important feature. It’s extremely democratic. Within a cacophony of quacking, clucking, clacking clicking and picking every imaginable issue from cantankerous personal grievances to group assaults is raised, argued and endlessly discussed. It almost reminds one of a meeting of the British Parliament, except geese don’t have feet with which to stomp as humans do.
Of course, I’m not referring to the “North American Arctic Goose Conference” among humans, which this January will meet in Portland, Oregon. I’m talking about real Goose Conferences.
It just so happens a few years ago at a particular Goose Conference members discussed a very hot item. Well, it was discussed among some of the members, at least. It’s sometimes difficult to know the details of what goes on in these large community gatherings.
The discussion of a “hot” item resulted in a large number of geese “Opting Out of Migration” and to “Elect to Winter in Alaska Instead of Mexico.”
Now, I’m talking here to conferences among the “Pacific brant” variety of geese. It just so happens that meetings among some Canadian Geese resulted in just the opposite. They decided to quit migrating northward, for some mysterious reason. No one is sure why this is happened in Norwalk, CT, although it is thought to be due to the greedy consumption of locally available food.
But, it seems fairly clear why Pacific brants have decided to quit migrating southward. And, that’s because of the food supply made available in the northern regions throughout the year due to climate warming.
So, you see, it’s not just humans who recognize climate warming some of our feathered friends do also.
Sources:
1] 12th North American Arctic Goose Conference and Workshop, January 11th to 15th, 2011,DoubleTree Hotel, Portland
2] Change in abundance of Pacific Brant geese wintering in Alaska: evidence of a climate warming effect
David Ward, Christian Dau, Lee Tibbitts, et al. U.S. Geological Survey
3] Opting Out of Migration: As Climate Warms, Arctic-Nesting Geese Elect to Winter in Alaska Instead of Mexico, 9/9/2009, U.S. Geological Survey
4] David Ward, Austin Reed, James Sedinger, Jeffery Black, “North American Bant: effects of changes in habitat and climate on population dynanics, Global Change Biology (2005) 11, 869‚Äì880
5] Geese Mysteriously Stop Migrating, Droppings Pollute Town, Nature, January 26, 2009 http://planetsave.com