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As the article mentions, their population is threatened mostly by habitat loss due to human development and trophy hunting

NY Times 2019: Bengal Tigers May Not Survive Climate Change https://archive.is/Fg5OM#selection-255.0-255.44

NY Times 2019: Climate change is now pushing the Bengal tiger closer to extinction https://archive.is/0qbcz#selection-553.0-559.23

NY Times 2020: India Sees Coronavirus Threat to Fragile Population: Tigers https://archive.is/PnuV3#selection-441.0-441.59

Human development and trophy hunting are threats, but they aren't the only ones.

Posting NY Times articles isn’t an argument. If you believe climate change is the main cause here, post a legitimate and peer reviewed study by people on the ground. This looks like you’re high on sensationalist doomerism.

The articles are based on peer reviewed studies.

The problem with the post is that Bengal Tiger != Indian Tigers. Bengal Tigers are a subspecies of tigers and not many of them are even in India.

The issues faced by Indian tigers was loss of habitat due to human encroachment (which will be worsened due to human migration due to climate change), whereas the major future threat to Bengal tigers, which live primarily in the low lying Sunderban areas of Bangladesh, is climate change.

So both things are true because we are talking about completely different groups of animals.

the sunderbans have a very low amount of Tigers. Most of India's Tigers are in the states of madhya pradesh, Karnataka and maharashtra which are not affected by rising sea levels as much as bengal as they are plateaus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India

royal bengal Tigers are the SAME as Indian Tigers. The British first saw them in bengal and hence their name. They are spread all over India https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_tiger

>Human development and trophy hunting are threats, but they aren't the only ones.

You are arguing against a statement that nobody made.

Yeah, for shame. We can’t have a single article about anything without banging on about climate change.

Just watched some eps of Extrapolations this week, the Apple TV show about climate change. It's (a sci-fi show that shows life in the future ~2040-2060) very far fetched, but not so much as to say it's out of the question that species continue to eradicate due to extreme climate change when it occurs. 1 cause was wildfires, and we saw some terrible fires over the last few years, from ones in Australia, or the Amazon, to ones in California. Still remember those pictures of burning Koalas in Australia. Another is the idea of rising sea levels which could cause many habitat loses like the Tiger ones.

But while these things may not be happening now, it does feel that more attention in terms of engineering efforts need to happen. There is a lot of hype and media outrage, but not seeing as much real substantive efforts. I hope we can control climate much better in the coming decades. Many believe Deep Learning will help with that. At the same time, these models are not as good at planning right now. So, I wonder if it will be as simple as that. Definitely in the realm of data extraction, and analysis, it will be of great help.

Maybe a related note to the PG tweet, about not as much capital invested in hardware industries, as opposed to software.

What is the connection between the two? I am literally working on climate repair and don't see a strong connection.

rising sea levels, may eradicate the Sunderbans, one of the habitats of the Bengal tigers according to one of the articles

Are you suggesting that climate change is bringing back tigers?

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