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Bird clues to climate change
What can birds tell us about climate change? Find out at a public talk this Friday by UCD palaeontologist Dr Gareth Dyke, who will examine how birds can help us understand past climate fluctuations and make predictions about the future. The bird fossil history extends back 140 million years, explains Dyke.
“We know that birds have lived through a number of periods of major climate change in earth’s history . . . and we know that modern birds are super-sensitive to changes in temperature. Seabirds like albatross and auks, for example, would be unable to fly if sea surface temperatures were to change by just a few degrees,” he says.
His hour-long talk is part of the series,
Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change, hosted by UCDs Earth Systems Institute, and will take place at 12.30pm on Friday, February 13th, in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
