On May 15, 3:46 pm, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(B1ackwater) wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT), znuybv <tjwil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On May 15, 2:03 pm, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(B1ackwater) wrote:
> >> On Thu, 15 May 2008 07:51:08 -0400, "God's Chosen Person"
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> >> <baying46...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change,
major stu=
> >dy
> >> >shows
> >> >=B7 90% of damage caused by rising temperatures
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> >> Tough. Manmade CO2 levels are gonna DOUBLE in about fifteen
> >> years, not decrease, and nobody is gonna do anything about it.
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> >> So the widdle fuzzy animals had better find ways to stay cool.
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> >When I was young, dogs used to shed their hair in warm weather. Have
> >they forgotten how to do it?
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> Apparently.
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> Seems that polar bears can't figure out how to
> walk on anything but ice either.
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> Natural selection runs in two parallel paths.
> For the one path it favors 'specialization' -
> animals that super-optimize so they can
> maximally exploit a specific ecological niche.
> The other path favors non-specialization,
> omnivorous omniphiles that can live pretty
> much anywhere on anything.
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This would mean that there would be very few specialist species
from one million years ago.
Michael
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