With global warming ongoing,are cold blooded animals like reptiles heading more north or south?

Question

depending on which side of the equator they live on.

Answer 1

a lot of species are moving towards the poles. on the whole, more of the land animals will be moving north  because the northern hemisphere land goes up to the pole, but the southern land ends further from the pole and there is has a lot of ocean around Antarctica so they don't have room to move. what the fish are doing, i don't know.

amazing how many people will just feed you BS here like they knew something. "gee, nothing's happening"

Answer 2

There is no hard evidence to support global warming.

Answer 3

Any effect it has would be small.  Because increases in greenhouse gases should increase the coldest temperatures and winter temperatures,  it more likely for them to survive.  Any warming should be mostly beneficial to most animals, especially cold blooded ones like reptiles.  Bob is talking nonsense.  Warming will aid caterpillars.  If he would use his common sense instead of actually believing the doomsday propaganda, it would be obvious to him as well.

Answer 4

Not only cold blooded reptiles.  Ranges for warm blooded animals are changing too.  The birds have changed their migration times.

The problem is that many species are interlocked in a food web.  For example, certain caterpillars can only eat leaves at a certain stage of development.  When the time for that development changes, the caterpillars that hatch starve to death.  They can't adapt fast enough.

Global warming is an ecological nightmare, in many ways.  More from scientists here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0217-acidi...

http://scienceweek.com/2004/sb041217-1.h...

Answer 5

Well i guess if they live closer north they would go north and if they live closer south they would go south

the effect would be they would leave and they are food for some other animal so that animal would die and so on but you don't need to worry about that YET it isn't quiet hot enough

Answer 6

With "global warming" you're only referring to a temperature increase of just 0.5 degrees over the last 100 years.

This change is far too small to start effecting any animal behavior.

Answer 7

WITH THE PLANET HEATING UP, THEIR ONLY DISORIENTED AS FAR AS ATTITUDES ARE CONCERN AND ARE TAKING UNNECESSARY CHANCES, BUT THEIR NOT LEAVING THEIR HABITAT.

Answer 8

They would be heading toward the equator, where it is the warmest.