From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department. Climate change is now blamed for what is called “Gary Larson events” in homage to the famed creator of the comic strip “The Far Side”
“We saw birds dying of what at best could be called Gary Larson events,” said Mark Mallory of the Canadian Wildlife Service in Iqaluit. “You see a bird for apparently no good reason fly into the cliff and die. You’ve got to be kidding.”
Of course, only MSNBC could be relied upon to report such scary science news. Here’s the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36202287/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Now I understand how the bird tragedy shown below happened.
We just didn’t look closely enough for a the cause of why the birds went crazy back then.
Look for a sequel soon. Ed Begley Jr. is being considered for the lead male actor role.
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The real cause of this is SAD (Seasonal Affect Disorder). After a long dark cold winter, many birds get so depressed, they become suicidal. “Goodbye cruel world!” SPLAT
Interesting. Now GE is able to report this from the _future_ no less. I realize we are all on different time zones around the world. Had no idea Cape Vera was already in ‘early May’!!! What planet, solar system or galaxy is now reporting AGW to the green presses?
I forgot to mention the suicidal birds that fly into the blades of a wind mill!
What a nonsense!
Never watch MSNBC, never trust anything from MSNBC, never waste your time with the dinosaur media. Their only purpose is to advance Liberalism and carry out Obama’s orders.
Many years ago I was in the commercial Computer Programming Tools business. Here was my Gary Larson moment discovering tools:
http://www.leif.org/research/The%20Discovery%20of%20Tools.png
Bird-brains!
Dodoes!
Norwegian Blues (pinin’ for the fjords)!
I knew it! CAGW is for the birds!
This is right up there with questioning why salmon continue to follow the same sea-lion and bear infested routes on their way to spawn. You’d think that they (birds & salmon ) would have figured it out in the last few thousand millenia. But I guess they just have short memories and poor parenting skills. 🙂
Yeah, and I have heard of the birds committing suicide by flying directly into wind turbines in California, too. I suppose that is due to “climate change” as that is what prompted the installation of so many windmills.
I understand that they’ve used computers for statiscs of this research.
This is what is going to happen when you forget to install third generation of TBSF ver. 2.1.1. The data is somewhat ????? “homogenised”
Oh BTW, the TBSF stands for Total Bull Sh$$t Filter
Causes of death:
Collisions in heavy fog.
Slammed into cliffs by strong winds.
Bleeding from bites of mosquito swarms.
Landslides.
Foot stuck in crack.
Driven into ocean by strong winds.
“Curiously a high proportion of the adult birds we see die tend to be dying [due] to factors related to climate and weather,”
What do you expect, it’s a harsh climate up there. And weather is not climate, mmmkay.
“Curiously a high proportion of the adult birds we see die tend to be dying [due] to factors related to climate and weather,” Mallory said. Some birds were killed by erosion of their cliff nests, crushed by melting ice, crushed by avalanches, or slammed into the ocean by really strong winds.
If temperatures warm and intense storms in the Arctic increase, along with other climate factors, “we might see mortality in these birds from these things increase from what they are now.” But Mallory adds that he and his team are not sounding an alarm bell that climate change is going to kill off all of the seabirds.
No, but MSNBC is. Ring that bell, guys!!!!! Maybe your pathetic and unwatched cable channel won’t go bankrupt.
Enjoyed your explanation. I thought that the birds were killing themselves because they thought Al Gore was coming to the arctic to speak about Global Warming. But I like yours better.
Just as the days are getting longer in the northern hemisphere, now we have reports of the sun setting on climate change skepticism: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/is_the_sun_finally_setting_on_climate_change_skepticism/C41/L41/
As the baseball season begins, it is enough to drive one bats.
“If temperatures warm and intense storms in the Arctic increase, along with other climate factors, “we might see mortality in these birds from these things increase from what they are now.” But Mallory adds that he and his team are not sounding an alarm bell that climate change is going to kill off all of the seabirds.”
Unbelievable. And they call themselves scientists?
I have kamakazee birds who hit my picture window about twice a year as well as a few CO2 lovers who want to nest in my chimey.
Putin made a comment about Kyrgyzstan’s ex-leader that he had stepped on the same rake as the former president. Leif shows us a cartoon about stepping on a rake. Pictures from May appear in April. In WA State a winter snow storm shuts the Interstate. In the east they have a heat wave. Birds die. Have we just gone through a radioactive cloud or something? Let’s blame George Bush and global warming.
Are these Suicidal birds, Sunni or Shiite. And I’m not talking about those chicken shiite birds ?
“”” Leif Svalgaard (16:25:00) :
Many years ago I was in the commercial Computer Programming Tools business. Here was my Gary Larson moment discovering tools:
http://www.leif.org/research/The%20Discovery%20of%20Tools.png “””
you are going to have the “farside police” come and destroy your lab.
There is NO LEGAL usage of far side cartoon panels available to anybody for any reason at any price.
The Arctic Snipe is already extinct.
Last summer Joe Romm was explaining and blaming global warming on a large number of deaths of either walrusses or seal or some other huge mammal. This was of course before any one landed and took a close look. It was shown later to be over population and the stampede caused many to be trampeled to death. Trampling is not exactly weather sensitive.
They’re flying into the cliffs because they’re mistaking them for windmills. It’s a thrill kind of thing.
Next thing you know they’ll blame climate change for killing the dinosaurs.
And now the link doesn’t work for me. Oh, woe!
Man-made climate change is for the birds…
It is not uncommon to see all sorts of birds flying into buildings with a splat where there is no ice anywhere around. Except for crows, I have never seen or heard of a crow flying into a building.