I watch the upcoming Climate talks in Paris and it never ceases to amaze me to see that the 1% of the global audience that are climate change deniers come out crying that it is not real. Before I begin on this subject, I observe a new study that attempts the first tally of those driving the peculiarly American strain of climate change denial. New research for the first time has put a precise count on the people and groups working to dispute the scientific consensus on climate change. A loose network of 4,556 individuals with overlapping ties to 164 organizations do the most to dispute climate change in the U.S., according to a paper published today in Nature Climate Change. ExxonMobil and the family foundations controlled by Charles and David Koch emerge as the most significant sources of funding for these skeptics. As a two-week United Nations climate summit begins today in Paris, it’s striking to notice that a similarly vast infrastructure of denial isn’t found in any other nation. But before I continue let’s get back to real world prospects for one species here in Panama.
PUNTA CHAME, Panama—Sea turtle eggs laid in the sand of beaches in Panama risk getting fried before hatching because of rising temperatures, an environmental protection group in the Central American country is warning.
“Global warming sounds a bit apocalyptic, but we’re already seeing the effects on turtle populations,” Gerardo Alvarez, a member of the Tortuguias group, told AFP on the weekend.
“With the rise of a couple of degrees in the overall average temperature, many species of turtle will disappear because the nests will fry,” he said.
His group has found that temperature spikes are risking the viability of eggs laid by thousands of sea turtles on two Pacific coast beaches it monitors.
The fact that the sand is warmer, too, increases the chances of female turtles hatching, throwing gender ratios out of balance.
“Temperature spokes have reached 36 degree Celsius (97 degree Fahrenheit),” Alvarez said.
“Temperature spokes have reached 36 degree Celsius (97 degree Fahrenheit),” Alvarez said.
The eggs need a sand temperature range of 26 to 35 degrees Celsius (79 to 95 Fahreinheit) to be viable. Higher than that and incubation is halted, with the proteins inside becoming cooked.
Alvaro said that at the lower end of that range, males were more likely to hatch, while above 32 degrees, there were more females.
“In these circumstances, the turtle population is becoming more and more feminized and there aren’t enough males to mate with them to have young,” the expert said.
He spoke AFP on Saturday, as 300 people released newly hatched sea turtles on the beach of Punta Chame, near the city of Panama, brought in from an incubation unit.
The warning came ahead of a UN summit on climate change that is to be held in Paris next week. The talks aim to curb greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Of course the sand is warmer, there is a strong el nino underway which is causing warmer temperatures and changes to weather patterns. This is a natural recurring event that has happened for thousands of years.
But the current el nino will be used by deceitful global warming believers as ‘proof’ of man-made global warming.
Tom
There is no global warming. Turtle eggs are doing fine, along with polar bears, pacific atolls, sealevels, NW passage, sea ice, CO2, etc. Things not doing fine include solar and wind power costs and efficiency, or lack thereof.
US Survey: 97% Of Americans Don’t Believe Climate Change Is Top Concern
Via Dan Joseph, MRC TV News
A new Fox News poll finds that in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the issue of terrorism has become the top concern of American voters. Only 3 percent of respondents said that global warming was the most important issue facing the country today.
When asked what is currently the most important issue facing the country, 24 percent of those surveyed said terrorism. That number stood at 11 percent the last time Fox News conducted the poll. Another 21 percent cited the economy as their top concern. The issue has been at top of the list for most of President Obama’s tenure in office.
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The new poll also found that Americans are largely unconcerned with climate change, which the Obama administration has repeatedly pointed to as the nation’s top security threat. Only 3 percent of respondents said that global warming was the most important issue facing the country today, down from 5 percent in a Fox poll released last August.
Dear Mr. Brymer,
Love your blog. Please allow me to chime in on the matter of climate change. Yes, the climate is changing. Any sentient observer above a certain age can discern this. And yes the change is almost certainly anthropogenic, i.e. caused by man. But the cause is not carbon dioxide as our controllers want us to believe. As a matter of fact plant life thrives on CO2. Once could poetically say it is the mother’s milk of the rain forest. The cause is the spraying in the skies which has been ongoing and escalating for decades. Do you know what I am talking about? Perhaps not, as most people are still unaware. Please go to the site http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org and also watch the documentaries What in the World are They Spraying…and Why in the World Are They Spraying on Youtube. We are being conned into supporting a global carbon tax based upon a massive cover up. The fallout from this project is so enormous it is beyond the scope of this comment. Please investigate. Much love.
NH
Where did you get that “1%” figure? According to everything I can Google, the percentage of Americans who do not believe in GW is much, much higher than that. The Gallup pole below was the first one I came to. And in reality, what people believe does not control what reality deals us anyway. There is a pile of “proof” on both sides. I’d rather have a world-wide summit on solving the rabid Muslim crisis. That’s killing us RIGHT NOW. Europe is toast. It will never be the same after the millions of Muslims finish moving in. In the meantime, Antarctica is growing yearly and polar bears are more numerous now than ever before. When the killer is in the house, you don’t go shopping for sunglasses.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/167879/not-global-warming-serious-threat.aspx