‘Total dudes’? What these infertile squirrels may tell us about climate change

When Jane Waterman first took a look at the ground squirrels, the kind she had been studying for years, nothing seemed amiss.

, is an example of a phenomenon that has intrigued scientists for years: phenological mismatch, the term for when an organism falls out of synchrony with another organism it usually interacts with at a specific time. “These unpredictable, extreme events could be very important,” says Waterman. “We’ve got to try to get a handle on it.”

March 2012 was different. That year saw a heat wave that at least one climatologist described as the most extraordinary temperature anomaly in North American history, one that brought record-breaking warmth to two-thirds of the continent. In Winnipeg, temperatures were an average of 13 degrees above normal for two weeks straight, and one day topped 23.7 Celsius.

Lol good one come out to prairies and show me the evidence?

With some luck the mice and rats will also stop reproducing 🧐

Maybe a ground squirrel mating tax will solve that problem?

pretty sure we've had heat waves before

Yet another species that can’t adapt to our ever changing world, along with the other 99.99% of all species that have gone extinct during the history of this planet. This conceited claptrap about how we as humans can alter the climate by eradicating themselves is beyond childish

Total bs !!!

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