Could global warming turn us all into hobbits?
A study of prehistoric horses has found that rising temperatures tend to make mammals shrink. Does that apply to humans too?Could global warming turn us all into hobbits? – CSMonitor.com
Peer review means smoking reefer with your buds.
ANIMALS GIRAFFE, line of elephants, pic that says global warming
Here is a scientists theory about the brontosaurus:
Every scientist knows that correlation is always causation.
And that the fewer samples you have, the better the results.
(I’m happy to believe that the Clydesdale horse is big because it’s cold in Clydesdale and that the Shetland pony is small because it’s so much hotter
there.
No, the correct theory is that global warming causes the brains of CAGW alarmists to shrink.
It’s true! Look:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6418/abs/362337a0.html
Oh, maybe not.
“Peer Reviewed Study Says Global Warming Makes Animals Shrink” that went peer-to-peer with no thought processing and should have been left at the pier.
A ‘study’ that hopefully will prove ‘survival of the fittest’ by soon being extinct.
My comment, reposted from another thread:
There are countless confounding variables (I can think of numerous medical ones alone) that obscure any legitimate attempt to link temperature to lifeform size, let alone establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
Would the researchers care to venture a guess at the overall shape of the size vs. temperature curve, and tell me where the slope of that curve (1st order derivative) is zero [i.e. ideal temp for largest size]? If they cannot do this, then they really don’t understand the determinants of lifeform size.
As best this issue is unimportant. At worst it is junk science that doesn’t deserve a research grant, [or publication in a peer-reviewed journal].
Could Bergman’s Rule really mean that increased size is an adaptation to cooling at high latitudes, yet shrinking is not an effective adaptation to warming at low latitudes? I think they have Bergman’s Rule wrong in this recent study. There must be more effective adaptations to warming. Perhaps this was a case of island dwarfing?
Actually, CO2 has caused penguins to shrink in size.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46545505/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T0vpgvFKRLc