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To: bentway who wrote (796454)

7/23/2014 2:18:43 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 1583285

New climate alarm mascot – white ringtail possums

[ OK, there are more polar bears than ever, so a new climate mascot is needed ... what better than a white possum. ]

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Anthony Watts

Embarrassed by the stubborn refusal of polar bears to die out, or even to appear convincingly rare, climate scientists are touting a new poster child species for our collective climate guilt – the white lemuroid ringtail possum.

The possum is restricted to just one mountain range in tropical Australia. Previously numbered in the thousands, the species was almost wiped out by a heatwave in 2005. [ Gasp! ]

“I think this really should be a wake-up call,” tropical rainforests expert and James Cook University researcher Professor Bill Laurance told AAP.

“We’re arguing this is a better icon for global warming than a polar bear because it typifies the type of biodiversity we will lose in the future.”

JUST four white lemuroid ringtail possums have been found in the wild and scientists say the species could soon become the first creature to be wiped out by global warming.

Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24520231/possum-a-polar-bear-of-climate-change/

h/t to Eric Worrall

However, it may be down, but not out, from 2009:

Reports of white lemuroid ringtail possum’s extinction premature

A RARE possum said to be the first Australian species wiped out by global warming appears to be clinging to survival, if still vulnerable, in north Queensland’s tropical rainforest.

Last year, the white lemuroid ringtail possum was reported to have vanished from high-altitude rainforests in north Queensland. It was the first Australian mammal extinction attributed to climate change.

The white possums are native to the mountains that surround Port Douglas and Cairns. When news of their apparent demise was reported, rising temperatures and global warming were blamed.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/22/new-climate-alarm-mascot-white-ringtail-possums/

To: bentway who wrote (796454)	7/23/2014 2:19:08 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1583285

US Is Having One Of Its Coolest Summers On Record Posted on July 23, 2014 by stevengoddard The frequency of 100 degree days in the US is near a record low, and has plummeted since the 1930s. The last really hot summer was 1980, with CO2 well below 350 PPM.

To: bentway who wrote (796454)	7/23/2014 2:19:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1583285

Summer Of 1936 Obliterated All Other Summers For Record Heat Posted on July 23, 2014 by stevengoddard The graph below shows the numbers of USHCN stations which set or tied their all-time record for record heat, per year. Note that NCDC’s fake record hot summer of 2012 didn’t even rank in the top 30. There is no time bias to this graph. If 2012 matched 1936, both years would be counted. BTW – all-time record temperatures can not be explained away using TOBS – even by the worst climate crooks.