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Researchers try to spell out a rational plan for so-called assisted colonization in the face of climate change
By Summit VoiceSUMMIT COUNTY — As global warming causes ever-greater disruption to plants and animals, conservation biologists are having serious discussions about how and when to relocate species so they they can survive for the long-term.
If society values them enough, some species threatened by climate disruption could benefit from immediate relocation, especially small and vulnerable populations that need time to grow before risking translocation losses, an international group of researchers wrote in a climate change journal article published this week.
The paper is an effort at creating a pragmatic framework for deciding when, if ever, to move species in the face of climate change. University of Queensland and United States Geological Survey researchers also contributed to the research.
“As our climate changes more rapidly than species can adapt or disperse, natural resource managers increasingly want to know what adaptation options are available to help them conserve biodiversity,” said Dr. Eve McDonald-Madden, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
Nuts. If only the prehistoric governments had planned for it, they could have herded all the woolly mammoths south to a warmer place…..
Stupid bastards didn’t understand that animals can move to any location without repercussions. Why didn’t they know this?
Queensland and the U.S……well we’ve plenty experience with moving species to different places on the globe. Can anyone find an instance where that’s worked out well?
Does one really have to be fcktarded to be a researcher? Yes, let’s do something smart like moving the polar bears to the Antarctic. We shouldn’t run into any problems there, …. Can the U.S. please import the Australian crocs? No way that could go wrong.
Really? Is there a good reason why we let people like this exist? Much less carry academic degrees?
In my view academic research scientists have always been a bit fcktarded. It’s only just now, for some reason, the news papers think it a good idea publishing their every thought and speculation as fact that we must act upon. When I was in research we just kept those type of people away from “normal people” as it was embarrassing. But then again, I was working in the private sector so we couldn’t afford to let them out very often otherwise our funding would be cut short.
If one of us did this…..
….they would put us under the jail
Just a bunch of make work, trying to pretend that there is a crisis. Their idea is that they would not be making such drastic plans if there was not a real emergency happening. Totally bogus, but they have to earn their keep somehow. This is the government creating jobs!
Isn’t it nice to know that there are idiots out there on the government’s dole doing stupid things for no reason. I bet the enviros would be all over this kind of ecological destruction, to stop it!. As if they had even a clue what they were doing, introducing and moving species all over the place!
Perhaps they should start with bats.
From the department of never letting a tragedy to to waste department:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.acff24dd4c5473befee0a0ed5479fc4e.531&show_article=1
The unfortunate worker was bit not in the USA, but in Mexico, yet these numbskulls twist it just so to make it sound like they’re outpacing killer bees in their headlong race for US soil.
damn – “to to” s/b “go to”
“Western Washington University Professor Merrill Peterson has received a $20,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to study habitat restoration for the Island Marble butterfly, long thought to be extinct until it was recently rediscovered on San Juan Island.”
Our government at work for us!
We have our first rational candidates for premigration to the southern continent. They can establish the Colony on Antarctica and adapt to the conditions so other biological activists will have mentors in place when they relocate.
Higley7:
The enviros will probably use this study as a fund raising tool and promote it. Of course they should be part of the “First Nation” of Antarctica. They can become the Indigenous peoples of Antarctica.
This still doesn’t beat the english flying fish to lakes more to the north to rescue them from global warming and barbecue summers. Nobody said if the fish survived the generous help.
The last time this worked, someone had to build an ark.
The result of handing degrees to the educationally sub normal in the name of left wing equality
Education and research became a growth industry. They are filing law suits against Law Schools claiming false advertising.
I chuckled while reading that in the news!
Conservation biologists? They seem to know nothing of biology or ecosystems. Do they keep their heads in the ivory tower and only do research in carefully prepared petri dishes?
Nintendo SIM planet is their preferred method of research. Petri dishes are sooooo messsssy. Like you have to clean them and all! YUCKY!
We had a huge flap about such things here a while back. In a nutshell, the Southwest willow flycatcher likes to nest near water, maybe ’cause that’s where the flies are. Anyway, when the top of Roosevelt dam was raised, the birdie huggers said the lake could never be filled to capacity, otherwise the flycatchers would drown – in fact, they’d sue to prevent it. Apparently something must have gotten worked out ( http://www.srpnet.com/environment/avian.aspx#willow ), but one question was never answered for me: why didn’t every last one of those brain-dead flycatchers drown back when the lake first filled up in the early 1900s? If they were so dumb back then that they couldn’t abandon their swamped nests, why on Earth would we have to relocate a single one of them now?