Adaptation is what earth creatures do when possible. The environment for the alpine chipmunk got too hot, so he moved uphill to alternative cooler digs. A city councilmember missing so many city council meetings over a duration of more than one year is also too hot. Time to adapt to private life Mr. Vreeland, at least until the weather is cooler for you. Don't worry, friends who thank you for "saving the quarry from city tax revenue development" will always think of you fondly.
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| The climate is 5 degrees too hot, time to move-on. |
Backpacking scientists from UC Berkeley have gathered compelling evidence that the warming High Sierra climate is pushing still another animal species to seek cooler habitats amid the higher regions of Yosemite National Park. Their new study, tracking changes in the home range of a single chipmunk species during the past 90 years, follows many other recent reports by field biologists that salamanders, field mice and ground squirrels, among others, also have been driven by rising temperatures to seek new homes at higher elevations in the park.
The new evidence for the effects of global warming comes from a study of the alpine chipmunk (Tamias alpinus) that Emily M. Rubidge, 36, a former UC Berkeley graduate student, carried out during four recent summers. Rubidge camped, hiked and surveyed the chipmunks among the talus slopes of Yosemite's higher mountains, where the animals live and rear their young.
Back in 1914, a famed Berkeley field biologist named Joseph Grinnell led a team of naturalists surveying the lives and habitats of virtually every animal living in Yosemite at that time. His tissue samples, plus 2,000 pages of notes, provided the details that Rubidge and her colleagues used to discover how much higher the chipmunk species has moved its home range. Grinnell's time temperature records in the park also show that Yosemite has warmed by 5 degrees, she found. Read more.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
4 comments:
Is this website about Pacifica, or Kathy's personal politics and interests?
haha I love the subtitle
Holy toledo! Step on, perhaps, a breaking story with, what, a picture or a rodent. Yea, the subtle mental images of a pest, tied in with an environmental issue, could possibly connect some deranged individual or Sue Digre to the Vreeland story. Oh, I get it.
"Is this website about Pacifica.."
Anon (2/22/12, 2:51pm), we're still waiting for your submitted articles (under your own name), and comments of value. And, you may not have noticed this article is 1/2 about Pacifica.
However, is there an "about Pacifica" requirement on Fix Pacifica? No where is that stated, so there is no such requirement except for the drummer inside your head. In other words, Pacifica is 1 city, located in a county, a state, a country, of 196 nations on planet earth. Information happens. There is a related, valid discussion beyond the limited ongoing series of city events, trends, tradegies and "food fights".
Possibly we agree Pacifica needs a sustainable economy? If so, your not constructive, repeated petty criticism is like a damaged team player attacking team members, duh!
If you are a NIMBY advocating for city economy be damned, try Pacifica Riptide-- pretty pictures, many pleasant city/coastal events, ads, a wish for PC Leo Leon to replace CC Vreeland, wonders of nature replacing a city.
Score keeper, your turn.
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