Among the top Google News search results today under “climate change, the UK Guardian and other media outlets are claiming a new atlas of bird habitats shows global warming is “pushing” birds further north.
The atlas itself, however, tells a completely different story.
Rather than “pushing” birds out of their normal ranges and forcing them north, birds are benefiting from a warming climate by expanding their overall ranges, thriving in new, northern regions while still thriving in southern regions as well.
The result of climate change is not a negative “pushing” of birds out of their habitat, but rather birds enjoying larger habitat ranges, while adding to biological diversity in their new ranges.
The Guardian story is titled, “Atlas reveals birds pushed further north amid climate crisis.”
The title leads casual readers to believe birds are being stressed by climate change, consistent with the notion of a climate crisis.
If you dig deeper into the story, however, the Guardian admits, “Overall, 35% of birds increased their breeding range, 25% contracted their breeding range and the rest did not show any change or the trend is unknown.”
That is, of course, a positive development. Indeed, even the Guardian admits, “Generally, if a species is present in more areas it is less likely to go extinct….”
So, if you come across one of the “news” articles claiming the climate crisis is forcing birds to flee north, remember the facts – birds are taking advantage of a warmer climate by adding to their overall habitat ranges.
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The U.K. Guardian is no different then the NYT’s spewing their front page lies to their readers of the leftists rags they blame this Global Warming/Climate Change for everything Global arming/Climate Change is the biggist Con-Job and Scam in the entire history of all mankind
A hypothesis derived from the data cannot be tested with the same data because it is a form of circular reasoning and confirmation bias.Yet this is how this kind of climate impact research works.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/08/03/confirmationbias/
The ranges of species expand and contract. Nature is never static. This is fertile ground for sowing the seeds of climate catastrophism at the expense of science.
At one time they thought Swallows buried themselves under the mud in ponds or some birds flew to the Moon or could change from one Bird to another Bird no one heard of Migration back then or that a small Bird like Sandpiper could Fly from one contienent to another the Arctic Tern flies from he Arctic to the Antarctic and the Bar Tailed Godwitt flies from Alaska to New Zealand nonstop yes they spend their Summers with the Ptarmagan and their Winters with the Kiwis
The Cattle Egret is one Bird who’s numbers are going up they benefit from Livestock but how they got from Africa to South America which allowed them to Migrate to North America is still unknown