Global Warming pushes lemmings off the planet

"This research provides a striking example of how climate change can modify the working of the natural world - raising the question of what the consequences such change might have for us."

Bloomin' good question I'd say. The lemmings are diminishing rapidly in numbers because of warmer temperatures and the wrong type of snow. We are pushing lemmings off the planet. This weather needs fixing. NOW!

The Sydney Morning Herald: Climate change pushes lemmings over the edge

Weird Weather

It's overcast and weird. The weekend was weird because we had a storm but not much rain. Then last night it got cold. It's all over the place and we can see the dryness of the garden but it seems like it might rain so you don't know if you should water or not. Then it get warms, then it gets freezing. There is no real spring pattern and I guess one day it will be hot and just stay that way for a while. I think that is bothering us. After that weekend a couple of weeks back where we had a stinking hot Saturday with a north wind and plenty of dust, we have realised we are back to that again and we are trying to find the courage to face another long, hot, dry summer. It is getting us down whereas we would normally be looking forward to summer. We would normally feel confident and able to deal with it. It's why we live in Australia. this year though we are really down about it and the couldn't be bothered attitude hasn't gone. We are not difficult and we are pretty friendly. There is just this undercurrent . We want Australia back where we can just laugh and play in the sun, no worries. I was talking to an African guy today and he was saying there is no such thing as climate change in Africa. It's the same weather they have always had and they don't even talk about climate change. Weird.

Climate Change Affects Great Barrier Reef

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"On the Swain Reefs, in the southern reef, the number of brown booby nests has dropped from 350 in 1975 to less than 30 since 2000."

The Great Barrier Reef is home to about half the world's species of water birds and the report is alarming. Thre are so many birds which are now severely affected and there is no sign that the numbers are picking up or changing. The contrary in fact. The warmer top waters force the food the birds eat further down into the ocean.  This , coupled with the lists today of threatened species across the planet is painting a sad picture of what we have done to our world. We don't seem to be inclined to move very quickly on this and there are all sorts of excuses for not doing so. We have been very destructive as a generation because it is all going into decline in our stay on the planet. So many of our native species are now threatened and we do not seem overly concerned about it. Not enough to make some dramatic changes to allow our planet thrive again.Lots of pigeons and weeds are on the horizon.