An Interesting Riposte.

 

ANTARCTIC FLOWERING PLANTS “A CLIMATE WARNING”: Scientists from Italy and UK have been studying the plants on Signy Island, a small island near Antarctica. They found two native flowering plants named Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis have increased their growth rate and range of habitation over the past decade. They are low growing grasses that grow in clumps on an otherwise rocky, snow-covered island. Researchers suggest the increased grow rate and expansion is the result of warmer summer temperatures and less trampling by fur seals. Whilst the changing conditions are good for these two plants the researchers are concerned that increased temperatures may allow non-native species to gain a foothold and cause “irreversible biodiversity loss and changes to these fragile and unique ecosystems”. They concluded that if global warming proceeded according to the worst case scenario proposed by the IPCC “Earth’s climate by as soon as 2030 could resemble warmer periods such as those recorded during the mid-Pliocene”. References: Science Alert 19 February 2022, Current Biology 14 February 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.074. ED. COM. These researchers admit the earth has been warmer in the past. Whilst we don’t agree with the evolutionary timetable that places the Pliocene warm period millions of years ago, we agree there is ample evidence in the fossil record of a warmer world with lush vegetation in the past. So why do these researchers complain about new warming and new growth? A warm environment with plenty of lush vegetation makes for a better place for living things than the present cold, barren environment of the islands around Antarctica. Similar changes have happened in the northern hemisphere, where we know from history some frozen wastelands, such as Greenland and Iceland were once warm enough for people to live and grow crops. The dire predictions about “non-native” species moving in exposes the hypocrisy of modern environmentalists – they believe in evolution, which is a process of survival of the fittest. The whole concept of “native” species assumes these plants evolved here and cannot live anywhere else. The reality is these plants survive here because others can’t, and there is no reason they could not or should not grow somewhere else given the opportunity. Currently these two Antarctic grasses are the fittest, but if the climate changes and other plants can move in, the new more successful ones will be the fittest. Again, we are left with the hypocrisy of environmental evolutionists – they claim to believe in continual evolution, but they don’t want anything doing it! The IPCC’s latest report, with all its dire predictions, came out in August 2021 and has now been endorsed by the United Nations. For more details and our comments see our report: Cyclones, Heatwaves, Droughts and Floods Are Our Fault here.