effects of global warming | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Tue, 13 May 2025 21:28:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Taking Action to Reduce Global Warming https://boneblogger.com/taking-action-to-reduce-global-warming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-action-to-reduce-global-warming Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:26:44 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2624 Causes of Global Warming Man-made global warming has been the product of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels with high carbon concentrations like coal, petroleum, and natural gas.  Human deforestation has also been a cause for global warming because plants absorb carbon dioxide that would otherwise go into the atmosphere.  […]

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]]> Effects of climate change on polar bears https://boneblogger.com/effects-of-climate-change-on-polar-bears/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=effects-of-climate-change-on-polar-bears Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:25:24 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1794 Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are in the news again because of dire predictions for the coming decades on their population numbers. The effects of climate change have been predicted to impact the polar regions first and most dramatically according to most models, and indeed, it is at the poles where we are recording some of […]

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]]> Public opinion and a geologic perspective on the effects of global warming https://boneblogger.com/public-opinion-and-a-geologic-perspective-on-the-effects-of-global-warming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=public-opinion-and-a-geologic-perspective-on-the-effects-of-global-warming Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:22:57 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1046 The topic of climate change is complex and politically charged—two characteristics that guarantee confusion in the general public. Increasingly, the subject of climate change is emerging as a partisan issue, once again dividing Republican and Democrat. A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans are becoming increasingly less concerned about the threat. Forty eight percent of […]

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]]> Musk ox say no to hunting https://boneblogger.com/musk-ox-say-no-to-hunting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=musk-ox-say-no-to-hunting Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:52:33 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=896 As we face the uncertain effects of climate change ourselves in the future it is instructive to look back in time to see how other species fared. (See also a geologic perspective on the effects of climate change.) Paleontology is one of the main sciences involved in this research and so proves to be very […]

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]]> SuperCroc at Sternberg https://boneblogger.com/supercroc-at-sternberg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supercroc-at-sternberg Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:25:37 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=750 The Sternberg Natural History Museum at Fort Hays State University is featuring a new exhibit, The Science of SuperCroc from now until August 5. The star of the show is the African crocodilian species Sarcosuchus whose remains have been found in the modern Sahara, in the Elrhaz Formation. This Early Cretaceous (~112 million years ago) […]

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