Eco-Ordinary

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Dr. Jonathan Block, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, estimated that a snake this size would have required an annual average temperature of 86 to 93° degrees F (or 30-34° C) to survive.  Currently, the average temperature of Cartagena, Columbia is about 82° F (28° C).

But don’t load your shotguns yet, because today when we talk about Global Warming we no longer mean a rise in temperature.  Some time ago scientists revised the outcome of pollution and carbon emissions to something they called “Global Climate Instability”, meaning more storms and erratic weather.  The name never caught on, so we still use the misnomer “Global Warming” because it was familiar to us.  Human technologies and overpopulation do warm the atmosphere a slight amount, but rather than everything turning to desert, we are more likely to first see storms and crazy weather as the planet tries to reset its climate.  Likewise, my personally coined term of “Global Storming” never moved much past my weblog, but I continue to use it to describe climate change caused by pollution, etc.  Stock up on masking tape and bottled water first, the hurricanes will wipe us out long before any giant reptiles appear.

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