The Weather Forecast of the Future from a Dipte rologist Take five years of drought.

We had five yearsof it in New York. Become a res ponsible citizen. Go into the field(if you are a biologist) fish and measure and weigh for five years. Do this study for both fresh and salt-water fish in your area. You may find that the State government where you live was right in statin g that erosion was a major cause of declines in fish stock. Then during these five years,develop a quadrant study by a lake in your area . Catch as many flies,insects, beetles that you can during the summer. Identify the grasses,the flowers and the hedges or trees that are either dying or thrivin g for those years. Finally come up with the same conclusion that your state gov ernment explains for Global warming. The birds are migrating further north. the seasons are starting earlier and insects and plant life have changed. Finally surprise yourself and everyone else by finding a fly that had been common by your lake five years ago,but was missed until recently you reported it on wiki-net species Id. The insect had changed,or yet the other insects of the same species vary in more southern regions than yours. Yours hadn't been compl etely described. So describe it. Tipula(tipula)paludosa. A pale brown, beautiful ly hyaline winged crane-fly with a dark elongate patch for a wing stigma. The s pecies is descrbed with light orange stripes iby Philadelphia taxonomists. Then open a book on genetics. This is simply a difference in pigmentation.Yo u discovered a different phentoptype with no selective advantage over other subs pecies in its species. It is a freak of nature. Not only that it is a different color. Finally,back up a bit to when the State biologists explain that global w arming is causing changes in our fauna.Then add this. This fly would not have r eturned to that lake, if the drought had still been raging. In fact,the fly's re turn signifies a major trend in cooling away from the drought. It is here again because we are finally cooling off. In fact,this summer in New York was quite p leasant. I am beginning to wonder if global warming is going to take some time before it finally is felt. Maybe even another half a century.