Declining frog populations have once again made their way into the news, but this time, it is because new research concludes that global climate change IS NOT the reason behind their disappearance.

While this seems to be big news for some, we have been telling you this ever since the stories that attempted to link amphibian declines to global warming first appeared.

The biggest climate-change-is-killing-frogs story was published in Nature magazine in 2006 by Alan Pounds and colleagues titled “Widespread Amphibian Extinctions from Epidemic Disease Driven by Global Warming.” It claimed a link between climate change and the rapid declines to near extinction of various toad and frog species across Central and South America. It quickly made headlines worldwide.

Concurrently, we pointed out just how weak the conclusions of Pounds et al. really were and we wondered aloud as to just what had become of the peer-review process at the prestigious Nature magazine.

Now, a new study proves that we were smack on the mark, and the news media is now scrambling to cover itself.

Dr. Karen Lips from the Department of Zoology at Southern Illinois University and colleagues just published the results of their review of the evidence linking climate change to amphibian declines in Central and South America. Here are their goals and conclusions:  Read rest of story...

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