It’s wild what a 1.7F increase in global temperatures since 1850 can do, eh?
Climate change will push venomous snakes towards highly populated coastlines, study finds
Climate change will drive venomous snakes away from arid interiors and towards densely populated coastlines, increasing the risk of deadly encounters for millions of people, a new global study says.
It notes that snake populations will broadly move towards higher latitudes and more heavily populated areas as rising temperatures make their current habitats less suitable.
In Australia, the shift is expected to be especially pronounced along the east coast where snakes will move from the arid centre into more heavily populated southern areas.
The research published in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases models the habitats of all 508 medically important venomous snake species and projects how their ranges will shift by 2050 and 2090.
“Before this study surprisingly little was known about the exact distribution of many medically important snakes, even some widespread ones that cause many bites,” the study notes.
Yeah, I think we can stop there, once they mention “models”.
It draws on public and private databases, citizen science platforms, museum records, scientific literature and expert observations, with all data vetted by an international panel of around 30 specialists.
And then they claim this will all happen in the future. All over the world. It’s all very culty.
It is wild that 2/3s of the total increase since 1860 has occured in the last 1/3 of that time frame.
It is like the rate of change is rapidly accelerating ! Does Teach think could be true? That the next 50 years will also have the rate of change continue to accelerate? In the last 50 years we have seen a 1 F increase. In the next 50 years could we see an additional 2 F increase?
Pythons are being seen in increasing numbers in the wild as far north as NC !
So Johnny-what are the alleged effects of that “rapidity increasing rate”, that can be separated from a “normal rate”?
Relax, William! There are hundreds of examples of viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants and animal (including we human aniimals) changes in population distribution related to climate change. They are adapting to global warming. So will we.
Humans will move away from flooding coastlines as the snakes move in!! Adaptation! Problem solved!