Study: Climate Change to Halve Trout Habitat by 2080

vince · Senior Member

Study: Climate Change to Halve Trout Habitat by 2080

lightfoot · Senior Member

Interesting read but I got tired of chasing referencess that lead to refrences that lead to refrences.

The best I could find on methods of study or imperical data with a quick overview was "Analysis by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization"

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georgek · Veteran Member

The NRDC report linked to on moldy chum lists a ton of peer reviewed scientific articles as sources, which did the data collection and analysis.

lightfoot · Senior Member

georgek wrote:
The NRDC report linked to on moldy chum lists a ton of peer reviewed scientific articles as sources, which did the data collection and analysis.

What I am saying is I chased a couple of the 52 "sources" and scanned through their sources of sources without finding any data colletion or means of study. Citing a reference does not make somethng factual. Specifically I looked at 1, 21 and 45.

I have seen people write "papers" that cited themselves as a main source to verify their claim and represent their "study" as factual. Junk science at its finest.

Though out of the scientific community for some time now, I still enjoy looking at study data collection methods used to support claims. I was never one to like crunching numbers, in part due to this.

"Analysis by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization" is nothing more than an opinion and suppossed crunching of "some" numbers.

From the article listed....

Scientists project that for trout and other cold-water aquatic species, the combined effects of a 1.5 degree

Fahrenheit increase in average air temperatures could result in a 7 to 16 percent loss of trout habitat in the

continental United States. And a 4.8 degree Fahrenheit increase could reduce habitat by a staggering 42 to

54 percent.

Why did they choose 4.8 degrees and not 7.3 or 11.4? At 11.4 wouldn't trout be the least of our worries?

"could" ?

Going back and reading this article, again, I guess their data collection was citing refrences. This is basically like a book report.