In 2004, I wrote an article for the Rumor Mill News talking of the strange incidents of new Animals showing up north of the 60th parallel.
Since that time, we have noticed plenty of abrupt changes in the weather, as well as starting to see wildlife that hadn’t previously been noticed in this part of the country. Buffalo, Deer, rare birds, etc. had all started moving north.
Then this spring/summer things took a drastic change. The first sign was the extra long winter season. Usually by May everything has begun to melt and life starts to blossom. This year, it was well into June before we started to see the major shift from winter to summer.
In the years following, more animals started showing up. In 2006 scientist confirmed what most Inuit hunters already knew, Polar bear and Grizzly bear had started to breed, and resulted in a new bear roaming the tundra.
In 2008 a native hunter shot a deer close to the northern city of Yellowknife. The typical range for the deer is more than 500 km (310 miles) south of the city, far across the mighty McKenzie river and Great Slave Lake.
For the last 2 summers, I have found various insects that don’t belong here, spotted new birds and watched the weather patterns change at a startling rate.
Combine this with reports of the sun and moon “out of place” in the sky, and the increased troop movements to “protect arctic sovereignty” in a land that had a hand-full of Inuit hunters guarding the boarders for 50 years, so it seems something is “up”.
And now, the mainstream starts to report it…
Animals and plants are shifting their natural home ranges towards the cooler poles three times faster than scientists previously thought. In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers looked at the effects of temperature on over 2,000 species.
They report in the journal Science that species experiencing the greatest warming have moved furthest. The results helped to “cement” the link between climate change and shifts in species’ global ranges, said the team. Scientists have consistently told us that as the climate warms we should expect animals to head polewards in search of cooler temperatures.
via BBC News – Species flee warming faster than previously thought.
We will continue to monitor these events, and reporting on the accordingly.
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