Hunters/Fishers View of Climate Change Poll 2/2

[JoeSoap]

So this may be a more controversial question in this group which makes it all the more interesting to where the chips land. By climate change for definition, I am referring to over the last 100years.

I give 2 choices so if you think it is real, you can assess whether you see an impact or not on hunting and nature.

 

[Badjer]

There were huge reptiles roaming this planet for millions and millions of years.
The climate had to be MUCH warmer during all of that time.
Very few mammals until the climate cooled.
We are still coming out of the last ice age. IMO

 

[bashaw]

Humans can adapt, & most animals can adapt

 

[Safari Dave]

In Georgia, back in the 70's, it definitely got much colder in the fall than it does now.

During the season (October & November), I would deer hunt every Saturday morning with my dad, and the ground would often have frost heave.

That very rarely happens now, even in January.

I remember a couple of time in the early 80's when it got below zero here. I don't think it has gotten that cold since.

 

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

Here is my opinion
We are living on a ball spinning on its axis at a great speed, which then is on a path around a sun and has a moon which has a gravitational force and there are many other factors like our atmosphere etc. If people think climate is not going to change then well… I think you should have a good hard look in the mirror
There are too many uncontrollable factors affecting the climate and our seasons etc absolutely cannot stay the same it’s just impossible. History shows our climate has changed before and it will keep changing.

My logical 2c

 

[Scott CWO]

The climate has always changed. The earth has been much warmer during several epochs in the past. Man makes a small impact that is not an emergency but the scare tactics sure make a lot of money for some people.

 

[45-70guy]

As a young hunter, the climate has obviously changed per each of our locations.
We have not had snow for the last 10 years last a full winter….. UNTIL last year 2025-2026 winter.
The rain we get is hellacious all at once and few and far between.
Our Septembers are now part of summer which makes it hard to bear hunt because of the heat.
What causes it all who knows , I’m sure burning tires doesn’t help but it probably has more variables than we can imagine and not just humans burning coal.

 

[BeeMaa]

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Have people had an impact on climate change, IMO yes. However I also believe it’s to a much lower degree than the outside (and much larger) forces of the world, solar system and universe factors.

But that doesn’t mean we as a human race aren’t responsible for the planet we are living on. Apologies for the double negative.

 

[coreydb]

The world continues to shift and with that so does the temperature. Written reports during the Middle Ages described weather conditions that were much colder and different than today. Scientific and archeologic discoveries pieced together a much different climate in the prehistoric age than today. No doubt Mankind exasperates some aspects, but clearly isn't the driving force behind this change.

 

[Flbt]

In Georgia, back in the 70's, it definitely got much colder in the fall than it does now.

During the season (October & November), I would deer hunt every Saturday morning with my dad, and the ground would often have frost heave.

That very rarely happens now, even in January.

I remember a couple of time in the early 80's when it got below zero here. I don't think it has gotten that cold since.

In fl we have had snow 3 the last 3 years in a row.
It’s never done this at least since my grandpa was a live ( by family story’s) since the 1880’s)
And one of the snows was very amazing for fl.
So I think we might be getting back to the way it was in the 70-80.
I remember having to bust the water out of the stock tanks before school. And it was coman between dec and feb back then

 

[Major Bonkers]

It's not climate change, it is climate variation.

 

[sgt_zim]

Hoax

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

The outright lies, the employment of logical fallacies, the mischaracterization of data, the scare tactics...

If it's happening, it's nothing at all to do with us. It's just one more way to take money out of our pockets and further erode our liberties.

I don't wish ill upon anyone, but I'm glad Paul Ehrlich has finally passed on, quite possibly the worst misanthrope of the last century, maybe longer.

 

[coreydb]

Hoax



The outright lies, the employment of logical fallacies, the mischaracterization of data, the scare tactics...

If it's happening, it's nothing at all to do with us. It's just one more way to take money out of our pockets and further erode our liberties.

I don't wish ill upon anyone, but I'm glad Paul Ehrlich has finally passed on, quite possibly the worst misanthrope of the last century, maybe longer.

Amen Brother!

 

[PerH]

Little Iceage started ca 1430 abd lasted until 1860 . Some smaller aftermaths after that . But the natural heat as it was earlier is coming back .

Scandinavia was warmer in the Bronze Age with fallow deer and wild boar . They moved further south little bit later .
One can see how the settlements on Greenland suffered due to the start of the Little Ice age later .

 

[Wheels]

Scientists tell us the earth was cold enough the polar ice caps have touched at the equator during the Cryogenian glaciation . There is fossil and skeletal evidence the earth was warm enough mega flora and mega fauna have lived and flourished above the arctic circle. Hippos have flourished in the Thames and the Rhine. The earth is coming out of the Younger Dryas glaciation/iceage 12,000 years ago and we are living in the Holocene Interglacial/warming period.

Yes we have climate change. The earth has always had climate change and always will. Is there some anthropogenic climate change. Probably a bit but mankind has a tremendous amount of hubris to think they can stop the normal climate cycles.

 

[Keelebilly]

Depends on exactly how you define climate change. All the briar patches where I grew up chasing rabbits have been cleared and turned into housing developments. Looks like human encroachment is having a devastating effect on the game in Africa outside the parks and hunting concessions. There’s an island of garbage the size of Texas floating in the Indian Ocean. I’d qualify those are man made changes. There’s no way that we can have 8 billion people on this planet without having an impact on our environment. The question is what do we do about it. I don’t pretend to have an answer, only a question

 

[45-70guy]

The climate has always changed. The earth has been much warmer during several epochs in the past. Man makes a small impact that is not an emergency but the scare tactics sure make a lot of money for some people.

The scare tactics and the news seem to have the highest effect on impulse reactions. Best thing people could do is shut the news off and just stay busy.

 

[Gomer]

I do think we have an impact. Looking at satellite photos during the covid thing, the air was clearer from less pollution. You could actually see the ground in China. That has to effect climate a little bit.

Where I live, you never heard of wildfires when I was growing up. Now, fires happen all of the time in places that used to be too wet to burn.

 

[Altitude sickness]

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

So this may be a more controversial question in this group which makes it all the more interesting to where the chips land. By climate change for definition, I am referring to over the last 100years.

I give 2 choices so if you think it is real, you can assess whether you see an impact or not on hunting and nature.

@JoeSoap
Climate change is real and has been for millions of years otherwise there would still be dinosaurs around but the ice age took care of them. Then the world warmed up and things changed again.
The world is constantly changing and evolving.
Man may have contributed to it in recent times ( to me the jury is still out on that one) but to me the earth will continue to change and evolve and there's Diddley squat we as humans can do about it. It has a way of finding its own equilibrium.
That's just my humble opinion.
Bob