Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Mountain Pika

Y2Kyoto 21 Comments

WUWT;

Previously, when researchers visited pika habitat sites warmer or drier than usual in the Great Basin, where they had historically lived, they found that many of these sites no longer were occupied. It was thought that pikas had been forced to higher ground to escape the warming temperatures or had died, and it was concluded that pikas were in threat of extinction in the Great Basin due to climate change.

Or, in the words of a wise elder – “Pikas move.”

21 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Mountain Pika”

  2. Of course nature adapts and moves. Happens all the time.
    Scientists have known for decades that waterfowl flyways move from time to time.
    Hunter/gatherers, when they ran out of food moved. Animals do as well.

    1. I thought it was even simpler than that, if an animal doesn’t move it is either dead or a plant!

    1. Thank you ‘All of Us’. I tried to keep up with reading SDA while gone, but only was able to quickly go through some of the more critical threads and comments every few days. It was too difficult to make comments due to time constraints and inability to quickly type in a newly acquired mini Ipad that I am having difficulty mastering.

      The comment section did just great from what I could see and there seemed to be a number of new commenters.

  4. Why do these august learned gentlemen who call themselves “scientists” have such a propensity for panic and assuming the worst? We have seen this “EXTINCT!!!” bullsh** regarding polar bears, grizzlies and black bears because these educated professionals couldn’t find the animal in it’s usual habitat. Scientists from B.C. once claimed the grebe was close to being on the endangered list, because the particular area they studied had fewer of them than in previous years. Grebes are as common as crows in Western Canada if you look in the right places.
    Pikas were all over the Squamish /Whistler area when I worked there, even ate up an entire douglas fir plantation on us in the early 70’s. (Whistler allegedly got it’s name from the little critters.)

    Are they under such pressure to produce a report on a subject that they tend to publish before all the evidence is in?

    1. “Why do these august learned gentlemen who call themselves “scientists” have such a propensity for panic and assuming the worst? ”

      Funding, DM. Funding. If you want the gravy to flow your way – whether it’s pikas in the Rockies or AIDS in Africa – you better have a climate change twist to your story.

  6. So then an animal that survives in an environment in which the temperature can range from – 40C to + 30C with wild fluctuations in wind, precipitation and snow cover and with constant threat of aerial predation isn’t adversely affected by a less than 2 degree variation in the annual mean temperature. Whoduh thought!?

    1. They’re dying because the temperature increase has caused more disease causing fleas on the Pika … or was it bee colony collapse … or a reduction in water supply … or locust swarms … or any of 189,000 “Studies” connecting environmental catastrophe to Global Warming … because you don’t ride a bike to work.

  7. Didn’t the so-called scientists just discover a colony of millions of Penguins in Antartica just last year?

      1. Further irony … that 10ft dia. $5k wind turbine will power my 1500w electric kettle when it is running … and nothing else. Making my my electric kettle/Pika power generation combo the most expensive way to boil water on the planet! Thanks Al Gore!

  9. They’re all over the place in Banff National Park. I think one even photobombed a couple’s semi-selfie.

  10. Whatever happened to … “survival of the fittest”? I guess Darwinism is suspended at the feet of Global Warmism.

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