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- Adam420, on 10/29/2008, -0/+5Yellowstone is one of the most amazing places on earth.
- inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4Dugg for not being another Palin misquote article.
"Palin said the frogs would just adapt lol!" - cnot3, on 10/29/2008, -1/+5Serves them right! You can't live both in water and on land. Pick a side, frogs!
- inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+4maybe the heat is getting to them
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695226889,00 ...
"About six miles beneath the surface, hot melted rock is moving into the magma chamber, causing the ground to deform. Most of the gigantic Yellowstone caldera is affected. The caldera is around 37 miles long by 25 miles wide; the area of ground deformation is about 37 miles by 19 miles." - cos5000, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3Dugg 'cause I miss camping there every summer like I did when I was a kid.*sigh* The west is the best.
- MFontenot, on 10/29/2008, -0/+2Scientists have known about Yellowstone's explosive history for quite some time, but events in the fall of 2003 suddenly had people concerned about the possibility of another massive explosion. In August of 2003 a new high-resolution sonar map of the bottom of Yellowstone Lake showed a bulge, or "inflated plain" there that was 2000 feet long and 100 feet high. Was it being pushed up by hydrothermal or even volcanic forces?
At about the same time there were some unusual changes at Norris Geyser basin some 20 miles north of the lake. Areas formally dry suddenly had hot springs. Other hot springs dried up. A long dormant geyser became active and forced the closing of some of the trails through the basin.
Rumors also spread that the land near the center of the Yellowstone caldera has been rising, perhaps a sign that the humongous magma chamber below was about to blow. - leewit, on 10/29/2008, -0/+2How will this affect the rest of the Yellowstone wildlife? The wolves are just getting started.
And yes, frogs do taste good. Just a little fishy. - wunksta, on 10/29/2008, -0/+2i think its more of an indication of our own affect on the environment. dumping toxic waste in lakes etc and saying "well, thats evolution. adapt" is ridiculous. we need to be aware of what we are doing because if we disrupt it too much, it can come back and affect us. consider the red tide and how thats affecting fisheries.
- DerangedPenguin, on 10/29/2008, -0/+1Kermit is coming to get you, you insensitive clod.
- Citizen01, on 10/29/2008, -0/+1This sucks. I think this should remind us why we should take care of our planet. Besides I love frogs! They taste like chicken.
- leewit, on 10/29/2008, -0/+1Yellowstone is my favorite National Park, such a strange landscape. It's almost like going to another planet.
- rocyahsoul, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1Trollick, it's worldwide. Globally 1/3rd of amphibians near extinction. That's news from a couple years ago before the North Pole sea ice had completely melted away. Check out FlashEarth.com to see that.
The summer temperatures are like 30 and 40 degrees below what they've ever been. This is due how overcaste it is preventing the sun light from reaching the ground. It might get trapped in the atmosphere by the green house gases but it's definitely not getting trapped so much on ground level as it is throughout the whole of the atmosphere.
I was sleeping nights in a hammock in RI during the summer 2 years ago. It was so cold I needed a sub zero degree rated sleeping bag to be comfortable. Last summer was noticeably cold.
I grew up in the North East and can remember when during the summer nights my face would stick to the pillow case on account of how swetty my face was. I would flip my pillow to lay my face on the cool side every few minutes until I got to sleep. The temperature at night was sometimes 80 degrees. We haven't had a summer like that for a decade. The past couple summers you'd shiver to be outside at night in a t shirt. That was never the case in the 80s.
What the industrialists have done to the polar ice and glaciers is now terminating thermal haline circulation, aka the ocean current. Which translates to less warm water being brought up from the equator.
So while I don't doubt the drier climate around Yellowstone now is hurting the amphibians the bulk of the issue is really the overcast skies which leads to rapid fungal growth and the cool night temperatures which lead to muscle cramping and taxes fuel for naked beings living outside.
Why it's so damn over caste is the ridiculous rate at which coal is being burned. Notice that after the weekend and especially after holidays while there is an expected lull in factory work the skies have been totally clear, you can almost see the blue in the sky that was there every day when I was growing up in the 80s. Apart from a downturn in factory work the skies in recent years have been putrid gray from one end to the other and regardless of how cloudy it is.
That it takes just a couple days of factories being down to see so significant a difference in the color of the sky speaks to the speed of the carbon sink. Global warming will be over a day after world oil production decline enforces a downturn of industrial mechanisms.
Then it will be on to nuclear ice age. Time to break up a bit of your house foundation and dig a bomb shelter underneath it. Be sure to bring magnets and wire coil for electricity and a grow light and seeds for food. - wunksta, on 10/29/2008, -0/+1while some people can act like that and want to make measures that may be ineffective and unsustainable without any real benefit, that doesnt mean any environmental concern is without physical practical merit, just keep that in mind.
- DerangedPenguin, on 10/29/2008, -0/+1Oh now come on you can't use an article from the Deseret News they are a religious newspaper jk :)
This was also covered by the Discovery Channel. (Oh Geez I am a geek I don't watch Sex in the City nor CSI?) - DerangedPenguin, on 10/29/2008, -0/+1Wait tell the whole thing blows up... You may wish you are on another planet.
- DerangedPenguin, on 10/29/2008, -0/+1bon appétit
- ConcernedCanuck, on 10/29/2008, -2/+2Poor lil' Froggies ;(
- PiggtailGirl, on 10/29/2008, -0/+05.50? That's all you could get?
- trollick, on 10/29/2008, -1/+1I don't know about amphibians, but on my last trip to Yellowstone I declined elks by one. Stupid ***** didn't stand a chance against rental Chrysler 300.
- wunksta, on 10/30/2008, -1/+1wow, you should publish your findings!
- trollick, on 10/29/2008, -1/+1Because it would be preposterous to suggest that it might have something to do with that huge super volcano there. You know the one that drives all that crazy thermal activity there and threatens to kill us all one day.
- inactive, on 10/29/2008, -1/+0"Our own effect on the environment" is just another challenge species have to adapt to, including ourselves.
But honestly most liberal environmentalists don't care about the economic benefits of conservation as you mentioned, they simply want to save the cute animal species at the cost of human progress.
For example not building a green power plant because a tiny obscure species of owl migrates nearby.
Or not building windmills on the ocean because it would disturb their view and kill a few seagulls. - lewystud, on 10/29/2008, -4/+3The sky is falling
- jsf21, on 10/29/2008, -2/+0Hell may be around the world !
From http://www.360beauty.net - inactive, on 10/29/2008, -5/+2If you believe in Evolution then this is just Darwin's theory in action. If creatures can't adapt to changes in their environment they die out.
There's been plenty of examples of this, the Earth's switch to nitrogen/o2 atmosphere, asteroids, raptors, flowering plants etc. Climate change and loss of habitat due to mankind are just the latest challenges but not special at all.
But on the other hand if you're open minded about intelligent design, then preserving the natural beauty and uniqueness of the Creator's creatures is probably in your best interest.
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