Even birds can’t outfly climate change. Really!

That is because birds with their tiny brains are smarter than humans obsessed with the climate change hoax! Birds instinctively know that the so called climate change is normal and nothing to be afraid of!

This study seems absurd! May we call it a piece of junk science! Even the premises of this study (animals "must move poleward") seems ridiculous! These nutty scientists want us to believe that a little warming is dangerous to your well being! 

Caveat: I did not read the study.

"As rising global temperatures alter ecosystems worldwide, animal species usually have two choices: adapt to changing local conditions or flee to a cooler clime. Ecologists have long assumed that the world’s bird species were best equipped to respond to the pressures of climate change simply because they have the option of flying to higher altitudes or towards global poles. ...

The study was funded in part by the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation in furtherance of the Half-Earth Project."

From the abstract:

"As climate change accelerates [???], many species must move poleward or upslope [???] to conserve their environmental niches and limit their exposure. While such geographic redistributions have been extensively reported, an assessment of species’ success in limiting their exposure to novel conditions is missing.

Here we report on a method to account for biases in tens of millions of species observations and evaluate how 406 bird species native to the United States and Canada have mitigated their environmental niche loss using geographical redistribution. We find that most redistributions have only been partially effective at mitigating exposure to climate change.

Over 20 years, species, on average, have redistributed their summertime ranges by ~0.64° north, averting their expected exposure to warming by ~1.28 °C, which is roughly half the warming they would have experienced if they had remained stationary. Meanwhile, species have only mitigated ~0.47 °C (11% of expected warming) in winter, and nearly all have experienced warming of >2 °C.

Species moving the farthest north and possessing traits associated with dispersal have succeeded most in limiting their niche loss. Species’ historical niches are becoming increasingly mismatched with contemporary climates, even in a highly mobile taxon, raising concerns about the ability of other wildlife to persist in a warmer world."

Even birds can’t outfly climate change | Yale News "While birds are better able than most species to relocate in response to climate change, the environment is changing faster than they can fly, a new Yale study finds."

Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate exposure to climate change in North American birds (no public access)

Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate the erosion of species’ environmental niches (preprint, open access)

Fig. 1 Geographic redistributions and niche loss over 20 years of climate change.