It's definitely possible to create artificially cold environments for mammoths if/when we bring them back. I doubt they'll ever do well in the wild, but we could likely see them popping up in zoos.
While you are correct, that overall global temperatures are rising quickly, that has widespread impacts on specific climates, causing a variety of changes. This is why, as an educator, I don't use the phrase "global warming" but "climate change" instead. The reality of climate change is that some places will get colder and others will get warmer as weather patterns change. Just ask someone living in the Northeast US the past two winters.
The reality of climate change is that some places will get colder and others will get warmer as weather patterns change.
True. However, the overall effect of temperature increases worldwide mean that many of those changing weather patterns are unstable and unlikely to continue in the long term. The planet is going to be a lot less suitable for species adapted to colder temperatures. The poles, for example, will always have colder temperatures than you'll find at the equator but they're still going to average higher temperatures once our climate settles into its new stable state.
Meaning that the planet will be less hospitable to wooly mammoths.
Woolly mammoths were adapted to extremely cold temperatures. What with average global temperatures rising quickly, the timing on this is questionable.
It's definitely possible to create artificially cold environments for mammoths if/when we bring them back. I doubt they'll ever do well in the wild, but we could likely see them popping up in zoos.
While you are correct, that overall global temperatures are rising quickly, that has widespread impacts on specific climates, causing a variety of changes. This is why, as an educator, I don't use the phrase "global warming" but "climate change" instead. The reality of climate change is that some places will get colder and others will get warmer as weather patterns change. Just ask someone living in the Northeast US the past two winters.
True. However, the overall effect of temperature increases worldwide mean that many of those changing weather patterns are unstable and unlikely to continue in the long term. The planet is going to be a lot less suitable for species adapted to colder temperatures. The poles, for example, will always have colder temperatures than you'll find at the equator but they're still going to average higher temperatures once our climate settles into its new stable state.
Meaning that the planet will be less hospitable to wooly mammoths.
Check out these articles for more information: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/clim...ing-will-make-our-winters-colder-9819825.html
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Global-Warming-Cold-Winters.html (This one does a great job of explaining the global effect that causes colder winters)