Not All Australian Marine Fauna Obeying Climate-Alarmist Dogma
Poloczanska, E.S., Smith, S., Fauconnet, L., Healy, J.,
Tibbetts, I.R., Burrows, M.T. and Richardson, A.J. 2011. Little
change in the distribution of rocky shore faunal communities on
the Australian east coast after 50 years of rapid warming.
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 400: 145-154.
Poloczanska et al. (2011) investigate this hypothesis by
resurveying a historical census of rocky-shore marine fauna that
had been conducted in the 1940s and 1950s, in order to determine
if there had been subsequent latitudinal changes in the
distribution and abundance of intertidal marine species
consistent with global climate change along Australia's east
coast, which region, as they demonstrate, "has undergone rapid
warming, with increases in temperature of ~1.5°C over the past
60 years." This survey was conducted at 22 rocky-shore sites
that were located between 23 and 35°S latitude, which stretched
across 1500 km of coastline. Results of th