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Add the possibility of incestuous suicidal clownfish to the list of odd results of Climate Change.




Climate Change and Clownfish Incest: the future could be way weird


During the recent heat wave in Australia,


It’s Now So Hot in Australia that Gasoline Evaporates Before You Ca...

Climate Destabilization creates wines that resemble disinfectant, smoked meat and dirty ashtray.

... Australia and other areas of the world are experiencing an increase in bush and wildfires, which may continue and intensify with global climate change. Smoke from those fires can travel long distances and poses a special threat for wine grapes. Grapes exposed to smoke yield wines with unpalatable aromas and tastes, sometimes described as resembling "smoked meat," "disinfectant" or a "dirty ashtray."

New Way to Identify 'Smoked' Grapes and Wines

My goodness! strange world we live in. Great articles!

In Historic town walls crumbling 'because of climate change', we see another odd result of climate change.

Defensive walls built around Ludlow in 1233 are suddenly crumbling.

“It’s amazing that they have stood for 800 years and the climate change that has affected them over the last couple of years has wreaked so much damage.” ... last year was the second wettest year on record.

Floodwater mosquitoes the size of quarters, whose bite feels like a stab? Climate Destabilization means more floods, and apparently that brings more infestations of floodwater mosquitoes.

Giant Mosquitoes Likely To Infest Florida This Summer

Giant mosquitoes, the size of quarters, are likely to infest Florida this summer, according to experts from the University of Florida.

These huge, biting insects, which are called Psorophora ciliata, or more commonly known as gallinippers...

Female gallinippers lay their eggs in soil at the borders of water bodies that overflow after heavy rain, such as ponds and streams. Therefore, they are referred to as floodwater mosquitoes.

The eggs can stay dry and inactive for a long time, even years, until waters are high enough to help them hatch.

Florida was hit by Tropical Storm Debbie last june, which resulted in flooding in several areas and the release of great numbers of gallinippers and other floodwater mosquitoes.

The mosquito is native to the whole Eastern side of North America and its body is approximately half an inch long with a black-and-white color patten, making it look like a super-sized form of the invasive Asian tiger mosquito.

The species is well-known for being aggressive and having a painful bite. "The bite really hurts, I can attest to that," Kaufman said. The pain has been described as similar to being stabbed.

Another odd result of climate change. Wild figs in the tropics are likely to be among the first plants there to go extinct.

Climate change might spell disaster for figs, fig wasp

There are more than 700 species of wild fig in the tropics. Most can be pollinated only by a unique species of fig wasp. In turn, the wasps rely on fig plants as hosts for their eggs. Neither species can survive without the other.

Now a new study from equatorial Singapore, in the journal Biology Letters, finds that the wasps are vulnerable to climate change, meaning that the wild fig plants are, too.

The scientists found that temperature increases of a few degrees could cut the adult life spans of pollinating fig wasps to just a few hours, from one or two days.

Around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the mean daily temperature in Singapore, the life span of the studied wasps ranged from 11 to 24 hours. At 87.8 degrees F, the life span dropped to 6 to 18 hours, and at 93.2 degrees F, it was six hours or less.

Another Climate Destabilization bonus, increased skin cancer. More powerful storms inject water vapor into the stratosphere which ends up destroying the ozone shield protecting us from UV.





Harvard Researchers Connect Climate Change to Higher Skin Cancer Rates

Sewer balloon demand spikes.

One Climate Change Era Growth Industry: Giant Sewer Balloons

Our sewer systems, poorly prepared to deal with the effects of even moderate rainstorms, dump billions of gallons of raw sewage into lakes, rivers and oceans each year. Superstorm Sandy alone caused more than 10.9 billion gallons of sewage to flow untreated into the East Coast ecosystem.

At the heart of this problem is a piece of antiquated infrastructure called the combined sewer, which funnels both waste-water and storm-water towards treatment plants in the same stream. During heavy rainfall, storm drains and sewage treatment plants can't handle the increased (if diluted) volume of sewage, and so into the river it goes. It's called "combined sewer overflow" (CSO):

Solutions are expensive. The back-end fix is an expansion of waste-water treatment plants, though this additional capacity lies unused during all but the most intense storms. Alternately, and at even higher cost, a city can take preventative measures by segregating disposal systems for sewage and storm-water.

It no longer suffices for sewers to be mere conduits. They must be storage tanks themselves.

Enter the inflatable dam. When activated, these giant sewer balloons turn roiling trunk lines into holding pens, rivers into lakes. They save raw sewage for a sunny day.

U.S. cities have installed dozens of these devices over the past decade. Made of industrial grade rubber and anchored to a cement base, the dam inflates on command to restrict sewer flow, like a plug in a giant drain. When the rain has passed, it deflates and allows CSO to flow slowly to the treatment plant.

Inflatable dams have been around for more than half a century, initially developed to stall flash floods in Southern California and allow rainwater to seep into aquifers.

... as U.S. cities begin to deal with more frequent flooding from climate change, and search for handy technology to divert water. The next frontier will be rail tunnels: New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority sustained nearly $5 billion in damage due to flooding from Superstorm Sandy. Parts of New York City were isolated for weeks.

On Thursday, the MTA inflated a plug in a tunnel at the South Ferry station. Fourteen feet in diameter and 30 feet long, this giant contraption and others like it may be expected to protect the network's longest tunnels from water damage. Plugs, like inflatable dams, would use a simple air barrier to hold back millions of gallons of fluid. Reckoned to cost $400,000 a piece, they are something of a bargain.

Alligators are moving north.

Alligators in Your Backyard

As average annual temperatures have increased in recent years, the zone in which alligators could plausibly both survive and reproduce has moved north. With the northernmost known population of gators so close to Virginia in the first place, it wouldn’t take much to get them established in a completely new state. Some locals already report sightings in the vicinity of Back Bay, southwest of Virginia Beach. Officially, there are no alligators in Virginia. But in practice, I don’t think the alligators have paid attention.

Last year, I put the word out that I was interested in alligator sightings within Virginia, and I was showered with emails reporting gators seen and in some cases even killed. Even the official, fully documented cases have been marching steadily north.

Odds are that the species is now here in my home state. The question is how many of them have arrived and whether the spring temperatures are high enough to allow them to breed.

The American alligator, the venomous cottonmouth snake, and the Carolina anole each find the northern limit of their range right around the Virginia/North Carolina border. All can now expand their ranges.

Yet odds are that alligators will be denied for as long as possible. Every government agency involved in monitoring or regulating wildlife in Virginia has a strong incentive to claim that alligators aren’t here. For what is to gain? As Mantay put it: “Once any (or each) agency acknowledges that the species exists in the state, then broad actions have to be taken to assess it.”

“Real plans, with real biologists, would have to be put in place, per state and federal laws. That will cost lots and lots of money.” It’s much easier to claim that every wild alligator spotted in Virginia is either a figment of someone’s imagination or an escaped pet. It is impossible to precisely predict how far north the American alligator could spread. That will depend in part on how out of control global warming becomes.

Gators and their ancestors have moved up and down what is now the mid-Atlantic coast many times over millions of years as the climate has warmed and cooled. So far, the current shift is modest by historical standards. But if the trend keeps going, then New York City had better keep an eye on its sewers.

Brain-eating amoebas are moving north in the US as fresh water warms.

Brain-eating amoebas thrive in US lakes as global warming heats wat...

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