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Posted 1.10.13 at 2:15 pm 2 Comments

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Snakes And Other Cold-Blooded Reptiles

University of Illinois

This is a Texas ratsnake, which researchers say could benefit greatly from climate change. Snakes, which use their environment to regulate their body temperature, will be able to adapt by becoming more active at night.

University of Illinois researcher Patrick Weatherhead and his students studied ratsnakes in Illinois, Ontario and Texas to observe how they behaved and how they fed. Sometimes it's so hot in Texas that the animals forage at night instead of during the day, which they could do elsewhere, too, once it warms up. Weatherhead found ratsnakes in Canada, Illinois, and Texas would all benefit from global warming. "It would actually make the environment thermally better for them," he said.

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gizmowiz

01/14/13 at 3:47 pm

Change is natural. Change is good. Stagnant life is bad.

End of story is all environmentalists are dumb and trying to play god.

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hazeleyes

01/18/13 at 10:34 am

If more bugs, rodents, and other species that compete with humans for food benefit from so-called global warming, that's bad for humans. But "global" warming doesn't seem to be global so maybe temperatures in warmer areas "balance" temperatures in colder areas, or so that is what those who opine on such things will say. But humans in hotter areas may die from lack of food, contamination by bugs and rodents, droughts, etc. While humans in cooler areas could be affected by crop failures through too much rain, years without summers, etc.
It has happened before and probably will happen again, no matter what we believe or prefer to happen.
Point is, should stockpiling of food begin now, or after people somewhere are starving? Does prudence have to wait until there's an emergency. Do we have to spend billions on studies that don't serve any purpose -- and other spending that doesn't serve the good of humanity -- be spent on something more useful...being mindful, of course, that food in storage always degrades in quality and is found and affected by bugs and rodents. Maybe more effort needs to be put into how stockpiles of foods could be effectively preserved for the good of more people, rather than plans afoot to insure that 10% survives.