There was an analysis of the post-human extinction of megafauna in Australia (IIRC), where they determined that the amount of extra deaths human hunters caused among populations did not have to be very high to reduce the replacement rate enough to drive them extinct.
Similarly, these “sea wolves” may not have to be all that numerous to permanently wipe out the Arctic populations of seals and narwhals, putting more competitive pressure on polar bears at the same time.
December 17, 2020
Time-lapse video by Ron Murphy highlighting the big time snow accumulations from the Northeast s mega snow storm. pic.twitter.com/p3p0JA0Tdg MJVentrice (@MJVentrice) December 17, 2020
Updated regional snowfall totals: Litchfield Township in Bradford County: 43.0 Williamsport broke their all time snowstorm record with 24.7 this morning. That total may go up when we get the climate report this evening. pic.twitter.com/nJGAXfRrCF Ethan Huston (@EthanWGAL) December 17, 2020
Absolutely insane snowfall totals so far. 30-40 in some spots and counting! #noreasterpic.twitter.com/hIeD77SuaY Kathryn Prociv (@KathrynProciv) December 17, 2020
This is almost 5 of liquid equivalent. This all happened in less than 18 hours. I can t say that I ever remember seeing such large precip in such a short time. The obvious reason is tight baroclinic/ frontogenetic forcing causing a band to stall and rotate in place. It… https://t.co/W0QH1rZJhs Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherPr
Two and a half minutes. I haven’t seen that much network news in decades. It confirms my memory that even in overwhelmingly liberal areas, if there’s a smart way and a stupid way to present the facts, TV news will find an even stupider way to ignore the facts and make up crap they think is cute. Kid-in-the-street interviews about climate change (that isn’t mentioned)?
Holy shit. Are we ever going to get serious about the most dire crisis in human history?
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