This is all your fault
Extreme Weather May Be Displacing Animals, Too, a New Study Suggests
A new analysis published this week suggests that extreme weather linked to climate change might be much harder on native species than on nonnative ones.
“Suggests.” Totally scientific. Is it or is not happening from Bad Weather?
As the planet warms, extreme weather events — heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and floods — are becoming more common and destructive. The new paper, published on Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, suggests that these sudden, violent changes in conditions could be helping to fundamentally reshape ecosystems.
Got that? Cold weather is also your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle releasing heat trapping gases.
In a statement, the team said that research on the impacts of extreme weather on ecosystems, while still in its early stages, was “critically important” to our ability to understand the effects of global warming on biodiversity.
On average, nonnative species tended to show more positive responses to extreme weather, or, at least, less negative ones. Where nonnative land species might take a hit in population numbers from a disaster, for example, the effects on native land species could sometimes be more far-reaching, with native populations also losing geographic distribution and struggling to recover.
All right, enough snark. These people are cultish idiots. Non-native species have always moved around, even to other continents. Sometimes by nature, sometimes because they were released (such as dingos in Australia). This is what happens on Earth. Life is not stagnant. Extreme weather has always happened and will always happen. CO2 is not the control knob, and a slight increase in global temperatures since 1850 is not Doom.
Meanwhile
Global Giving to Stop Climate Change Cools Even as Planet Faces Hottest-Ever Conditions
Philanthropic giving to address climate change was unchanged last year compared to 2021 at roughly US$7.8 billion to US$12.8 billion, a disappointing development in the face of rapidly intensifying climate impacts around the globe.
The figures, which represent less than 2% of all global giving by individuals and foundations, were released last week from the fourth annual funding trends analysis from the San Francisco-based ClimateWorks Foundation..
“A major acceleration of efforts is required to address climate change,” the report said. “Philanthropy has a significant role to play in driving that acceleration and supporting the implementation of recent commitments.”
I’m guessing the rich folks are getting tired of playing to the cult scammers (just like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are moving to Miami, which I’m told will be under water soon from ‘climate change’), and, if a place like ClimateWorks is so concerned they can dump their own money into Doing Something, rather than demand that Other People do so. Seriously, why do they think they can tell people what to do with their money?
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