Comments on: Cold Blooded Animals + Warming Planet = Not Good https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/ Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:23:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: bongstar420 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533373 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:23:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533373 I thought reptiles liked it warm. I thought the fossil record reflects that. I thought reptiles were common only in hot and warm climates. Why do reptiles always hang out around dense, dark colored bodies? Don’t reptiles actually require warmer temperatures then exclusively subterranean habitats? Isn’t the ground always the same temperature a couple of feet below the surface of the soil? Doesn’t the fossil record reflect a larger size of average reptile like biota during the historically warmer, more productive phases of Earth climates?
I must be delusional since this guy is an authority on the subject. Everything I thought about reality is now changed because of this report.

]]> By: marilove https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533372 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:37:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533372 I’m confused. I grew up near Lake Havasu City, and 104 degrees is NOT HOT–it’s a little warm. Sometimes it’s that hot at 2am.

We certainly did NOT have a problem with snakes and lizards. We had plenty. Everywhere.

]]> By: Jeremy https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533371 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:41:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533371 I call bullshit on Jim Thomerson. Even if he lives in Death Valley the average temperature is only over 104F 4 months a year and the majority of ectotherms would be sheltering from the heat when it reaches those temperatures and most active in the morning and afternoon.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533370 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:13:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533370 Jim: How many reptiles live in your yard, man?

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533369 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:10:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533369 “Many reptiles” = “universal problem”?

]]> By: Jim Thomerson https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533368 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:32:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533368 There are large ares of the world (like my yard) where temperatures above 104F are common, yet many reptiles live there. They have figured out how to thrive in such an environment. No doubt there are many poikilotherms who do not know how to thrive under such temperature extremes, but to state this as a universal problem is overblown hype.

]]> By: pixelsnake https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533367 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:43:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/29/cold-blooded-animals-warming-p/#comment-533367 This is very sad, I love reptiles. Some people might think ‘oh well, a few less snakes in the world.’ but they really are amazing creatures.

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