http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=1&ui_sort=1
The previous December was the 2nd highest on record.
Meanwhile, back at the BBC :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8494000/8494397.stm
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It couldn’t be that roads and buildings keep encroaching on their habitat, or researchers keep putting collars on them and chasing them around the wild…., it has to be a lack of snow…..when there is no lack of snow. How do these loonies find themselves in thier contrived land of make believe?
I guess the snow pack is full of rotten snow. It just isn’t suitable for wolverine dens. Maybe Dr. Barber can get a new grant to study the effects of rotten snow pack on the wolverine’s range:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gulo_gulo_distribution.svg
1992
“Scientists Suggest Global Warming Could Hasten the Next Ice Age”
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1061EF83E5A0C728EDDA80894DA494D81
“Dr Brodie cannot be sure why wolverine numbers are falling, but he has his suspicions. ”
“Dr Brodie believes that his is the first study to show a decline in species abundance due to a reducing snowpack”
Epic logic FAIL. This sort of thing really annoys me. Correlation is NOT causation.
Dr. Brodie needs to take another Pill. That will enable him to see the world any way he wants!
These are not biologists, these are idiots!
First off, the coloration of the wolverine tells you it is not a snowpack specialist. In fact, it spends most of its year in the unsnowed forest. It does not depend on snowpack to live. They do just fine in other areas, but they have great fur and can tolerate being active all winter.
Second, as they have a generally low population density and huge home ranges, it would be very hard to correlate snowpack with their populations. They range down into the US, in Canada, and all across north Russia.
Third, as it cannot be shown that snowpack has decreased or that there has been any warming in the last 15 years, this study is deemed here as bogus as the effects noted would be ephemeral.
This sounds a lot like the study of moose range decrease in which they claimed a 4-6 deg F warming was decreasing the range and forcing it north. In fact, there had been no warming, but there has been an invasion of white-tailed deer with their parasites and diseases. Moose weakened by disease and parasite malnutrition can succumb to the hottest days of any year. This effect had nothing to do with climate change, just the fact that we have decreased the predators of the deer and their population has exploded.
LOL, as usual, too many hacks get their exercise jumping to conclusions, eh ?
what a crock
warmth settles the snow.
The wolverines all left for China where’s lots of food
Deadly extreme cold – Snow worst in decades in northwest China – 100,000 homes flattened or damaged
17 Jan 11 – Half a million snowed under. Livestock raising hit hard. Both wild animals and livestock unable to find food.
See Deadly extreme cold – Snow worst in decades in NW China
Severe winter in Mongolia – 800,000 animals lost
17 Jan 11 – Most severe winter in three decades. Most rural provinces covered by up to 20 inches (50 cm) of snow.
See Severe winter in Mongolia – 800,000 animals lost
Cold kills 9,248 head of cattle in Vietnam
17 Jan 11 – Vietnam’s Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced huge losses in cattle caused by the cold in recent days.
See Cold kills 9,248 head of cattle in Vietnam
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The wolverine can be found primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern hemisphere, with the greatest numbers in Alaska, Canada, the Nordic countries of Europe, and throughout western Russia and Siberia. Their populations have experienced a steady decline since the 19th century in the face of trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation, such that they are essentially absent in the southern end of their European range. It is, however, estimated that large populations remain in North America and North Asia.[2]
Steady decline in the face of trapping. Not a word about climate change here.
How is that possible?
If you take the last two Decembers (2009 and 2010), the snow cover for those 2 consecutive years appears to be way above that of any other 2 consecutive years.
Sure sign of declining snow cover!
don’t confuse us with facts — its all about the narrative.