By Neil the Ethical Werewolf I suppose you could call them signs of the apocalypse. The Inuit are buying air conditioners. A manatee was seen swimming along the Hudson river in New York, far north of its usual Florida range. The manatee's behavior is part of a larger trend of animals being found in unusual places. As this article on a butterfly researcher who saw her species drift northward points out, over fifty percent of wild species have changed their habitats due to global warming, moving north or to higher altitudes.
