The Expansionist: It's Not 'Global Warming' That Is Devastating Puffins

Sunday, April 29, 2018

It's Not 'Global Warming' That Is Devastating Puffins

Today, April 29, 2018, the news and feature program CBS Sunday Morning broadcast an insanely despicable segment about declining numbers of Atlantic puffins (an adorable, colorful sea bird) in Iceland that blamed that decline on "climate change", less surreptitiously called "man-made global warming". Oh? The story admitted that puffins are HUNTED and EATEN by Icelanders, and even that a restaurant the CBS crew ate at offered puffin hors d'oeuvres! But that couldn't possibly be what's causing the decline in puffin numbers, could it?
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Never mind that people have killed off every last member of various species, such as the dodo and passenger pigeon, and very nearly exterminated the American buffalo, which once numbered in at least the tens of millions. Enlightened U.S. Government action not just saved the buffalo from extinction but also made it into a food source that in no way risks the creature's continued existene. Indeed, on a visit to the Dakotas, I not just saw buffalos in the wild but also ate a buffalo burger. It was quite a disappointment, because pretty much every ground meat — beef, turkey, buffalo, pork tastes much the same; odd but, in my experience, true, especially if you punch it up with some ketchup, a pickle siece or relish, and present it on a litely toaested hambuger bun (which is NOT a bun for a patty made of ground ham — which it might as well be, because almost no one could identify the meat. Wikipedia has produced a list of 67 pages of species rendered extinct by human activity, and admits that the list is NOT COMPLETE. No, "climate change" is killing off the puffin! SURE it is.
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Why don't we now just rewrite history and make the dodo, passenger pigeon, bison, and dozens of other species victims of climate change?! Then we can sit aside, and let Viking savages who KILL and EAT puffins escape blame for their monstrous misbehavior.
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Contrary to popular belief today, the climate when dinosaurs thrived was much hotter than today. You can find articles online with headings such as "EcoAlert: Earth was Stifling Hot During Peak Age of Dinosaurs", but, grotesquely, the word "degree" DOES NOT APPEAR in that article, and many others. Still, the point is that life reached its apex in the size of animals, and probably plants, when Planet Earth was much hotter than it is today. And, today, the places on this planet with the greatest biodiversity and proliferation of life are HOT. That should not astonish anyone. Compare (or, more sensibly, contrast) the Siberian tundra and Brazilian rainforest. But you don't have to go that far afield to see the real effects of temperature on life. Just look around you if you live in a temperate or cold climate and you can see that life in the cold is hugely disadvantaged and reduced, and MOST of what we see in the summer is dead or dormant in the winter.
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So NO, it is NOT [man-made] climate change that is decimating puffins, but barbarous, criminal behavior by Icelandic savages. So many people are so stupid and rapacious that they destroy not just the very species their own lives depend on but also innocent-bystander species. Dolphins are killed in tuna fishing; sea turtles die from bowel obstruction when they mistake floating plastic debris for jellyfish, a staple of their diet, in vast mid-oceanic islands of floating plastic; abandoned commercial fishing nets trap and kill large numbers of fish that are not harvested. Elephants are killed for ivory that could be harvested by tranquilizing adult elephants and harvesting one trunk each, so they could still use one trunk as they need to; and rhinoceroses are slaughtered for their horns, which idiot Chinese savages employ in traditional medicine and, astoundingly, to fight sexual impotence! Yes, that's right. A country with 1.4 BILLION people needs to make heterosexual men "horn"ier, so that, in time, China might have 18 billion people! That's what this planet needs, isn't it, billions and billions of Chinese, at the cost of eradicating all species not required as food for those predatory masses! Mind you, China has abandoned its one-child policy, because it feels it NEEDS MORE PEOPLE! All the while, CBS and other Western media that should know better make EXCUSES for criminal savagery. If the puffin has to go extinct because Icelanders are barbarians, and if elephants and rhinoceroses have to disappear from everyplace but zoos — and even one European zoo has been attacked by poachers — well, that's just too bad, or, as Walter Cronkite, CBS's most famous news anchor, used to intone, "that's the way it is". But that's not the way it has to be.
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"Human" beings DO deserve blame for hugely adverse impacts upon this planet, but "climate change" is not one of them.

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 10:50 AM

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