By Charles F. Gritzner
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Doesn’t this suggest that if temperatures warm, Earth can support a greater, rather than reduced, variety and abundance of flora and fauna? It is when conditions become cooler and drier that plants and animals begin to drop out. They simply cannot survive the harsher conditions. Animal life is adapted to many environmental conditions, the most important (for most fauna) being temperature, water availability, and vegetation cover. Some fauna, such as most of Africa’s wonderful variety of large animals, survive in grasslands.
During 2009 many locations also experienced record cold temperatures. 72°C) cooler by the end of the century. HoW RELIABLE ARE THE dATA? Some scientists question the reliability of recent temperature data that point to global warming. S. ,” contained some rather shocking information. Watts conducted a national survey of official weather recording stations. He found that 89 percent—nearly 9 of every 10 such facilities—failed to meet National Weather Service standards for station location. In other words, the thermometers were located in places where they were subjected to “artificial” heating.
Even remote Timbuktu, an isolated trading city on the Niger River at the edge of the Sahara Desert, was flooded at least 13 times. Rather than snow, the colder temperatures increased precipitation in this portion of West Africa. As far away as China, some warm weather crops disappeared from places where they had grown for centuries. To the west, across the North Atlantic Ocean, conditions were also much colder during the Little Ice Age. In Iceland, crops failed. Sea ice surrounded the island for miles in every direction.