Various Canaries
Posted on | May 20, 2007 | 1 Comment
the “canary in the climate change coal mine”
- wine (see also Napa Valley)
- the boreal forests of Quebec
- Perth
- Australian ski resorts
- the Sahel
- polar bears
- trout
- Alaska (see also the Arctic, which has been subject to expert peer review)
- the Northeast (this would be US)
- mountains
- November
- Tuvalu
- Flamingo (the former Florida town, not the bird)
- the marine pelagic ecosystem
- the black guillemot
(Full disclosure: I’ve done it too: “Mountain ecosystems are a canary in the climate-change coal mine.”)
Category: climate variability
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May 22nd, 2007 @ 6:57 pm
[...] Yesterday Southwestern reporter John Fleck posted a good example of why: a list of stories published in recent months employing the &;quot;canary in a coal mine&;quot; metaphor. Many of these stories were terrific, including the very first one, from Corie Brown at the L.A. Times,. [...]