A Wee Problem With The First-Ever Mammal Extinction From Modern Climate Change Claim
By Kenneth Richard on 6. December 2021
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Claims that rising sea levels led to a remote island species’ demise is contradicted by evidence that sea levels were meters higher than today a few thousand years ago.
In 2019 Australia’s government announced that climate change – rising seas, specifically – had claimed its first-ever mammalian victim: a rat.
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Photo: State of Queensland, CC BY 3.0 au.
The Bramble Cay melomys lived on an island today situated only 1 meter above sea level. It has been assumed recent sea level changes around northeastern Australia have compromised the Bramble Cay coastal habitat.
But a new study (Köhler et al., 2021) says this same area had 2-3 meters higher sea levels just 7,000 to 4,000 years ago, as there was less glaciation and larger volumes of water in ocean basins during this time period.
https://notrickszone.com/2021/12/06/a-wee-problem-with-the-first-ever-mammal-extinction-from-modern-climate-change-claim/
