“Thousands of dead crabs have washed up along the Kent coast, with environmental experts believing the cold weather in Britain is to blame,” London’s Daily Mail reports. In an MSNBC/LiveScience report, we get the simple explanation. ’tis the snowfall on the beach that melted wot dun it:
“It’s been a phenomenon for probably a third year in a row,” Tony Child, Thanet Coast project manager, told LiveScience.
The crabs come closer to shore at this time of year, Child said, where they feed on the seaweed. In the past, environmental scientists ran tests to check for disease or other physiological problems with the crabs, coming up empty-handed. But Child said every year the die-offs have occurred after there was snow on the beaches. The meltwater causes temperatures near shore to drop, and Child said the deaths must be linked to hypothermia.
Now, get load of this quote from another person in the Daily Mail Article:
“Coastal warden Tony Sykes said: ‘We suspect that climate change and warmer weather has lured the crabs towards the shoreline.”
Warden, what are you smoking dude? Have a look at the SST’s for Britain, what were they doing, swimming towards Spain?
Note the colors around the southeast part of the U.K. – barely above freezing SST’s.
Source: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/fields/FS_km5000.gif
Note the quote:
It’s been a phenomenon for probably a third year in a row,” Tony Child, Thanet Coast project manager, told LiveScience.
Hmmm….now what could possibly have happened in the UK during the last three winters? BBQ Summers?
Here’s the press release from the Thanet Coast Project:
Marine wildlife hit by cold weather
Around 25,000 velvet swimming crabs and marine wildlife have become the latest victim of the recent cold weather in Thanet.
Volunteer coastal wardens from the Thanet Coast Project have surveyed the coastline and reported hundreds of dead creatures washed up on the shore. Casualties have been reported from the Nayland Rock, Margate and in bays to the Kingsgate area, with further sightings between Dumpton and Ramsgate. The discovery was made following the Christmas period, following on from the recent heavy snow falls.
So this claim from coastal warden Sykes isn’t the same ridiculous claim we’ve been hearing lately, that global warming causes cold weather. Nooo… the problem here seems to be that the crabs made the mistake of believing in global warming.
Here’s the link to the Daily Mail story with the quote.
H/T to Mark Duchamp for the email.
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These fools seem to find a way to blame everything on this “global warming” despite the fact that there has been no documented warming for several years now.
Well said Anthony. It is always doom Doom DOOM with them. There can be no natural cycles, or responses to those cycles. I would not be surprised if this same phenomenon used to feed villagers in the dead of winter, when the first snow would hit the beaches. That knowledge has probably been lost do to urbanization. I find it ironic that it is the city urban dwellers who have the highest attachment to CAGW. Hmmm
Here’s what should be done with crabs:
So, the “22” is Tony Sykes IQ?
[Now, now. Do not make unwarranted, un-researched assumptions …. 8<) Robt]
Now, lemme’ get this straight, Anthony…
Are these warmists gonna next be stumping for ‘crabby psychitrists’…?
You know – watching Lemmings ‘leap’ used to terrify me as a kid, but – now, I jus’ see them as tiny little ‘greenies’ and somehow – miraculously – without drugs or other ‘intervention’ my phobia has been completely cured and I can smile, once more.
C.L. Thorpe
Once again they are exchanging terms of “climate change” (cooling) with “AGW”.
Only people with intelligence disabilities would believe that cold water was AGW warmed when the crabs approached. Three years in a row. And these are supposed to be “scientific” observations? When are the actual scientists on the AGW gravy train going to wise up that they are being duped and used to promote a political, not a scientific point. I suppose that one could allude to political science, but even that is rooted in a political reality and not to be confused with a scientific reality based upon observation. Cold is cold. They didn’t die from warmth.
It looks like Global Warming is freezing species to death,
Thousands of salmon killed at Bushmills research centre (BBC, December 26, 2010)
Cold weather leads to 767 manatee deaths in 2010 (Miami Herald, January 5, 2011)
Maryland’s 2 million dead fish caused by cold water (Reuters, January 6, 2011)
It seems like a pretty good metaphor for britain’s climate policy: Believe in global warming, swim towards those warming waters(green tech) and freeze in the surf.
Sadly, this is yet more evidence that there is a very real disconnect between science and reality. Globull warming is just the tip of the iceberg. I dont include “economics” in the term science.
It looks as if they just pick words out of a dictionary and then add the phrase global warming or climate change or climate disruption or witchcraft to it and then print it. Perhaps what we really face is black magic.
“Nooo… the problem here seems to be that the crabs made the mistake of believing in global warming.”
I would be a lot happier if the same fate was befalling the so called homo sapiens sapiens who fall for this scam,and particulary the ones who keep perpetrating it and stealing money from it!
“Cold is cold. They didn’t die from warmth.”
Ah, but you see – they did die from warmer cold weather.
Over the past 30 years of 1/2 of one degree warming, “only” those which bred and got used to warmer weather survived to breed again, and so now the “entire” crab population “must” live in warmer waters and hotter climates and so they are faced with catastrophic danger by the past 3 years of colder winters – which the weather service and Hansen’s GISS maintain did not happen.
As a result the crabs are “forced” to go ashore to seek their new, mandatory hotter climates but they are now being DESTROYED and MURDERED by the callas and inhumane human-caused extra snow and ice on shore – which had never been there the previous 30 years/300 years/3000 years/30,000 years of southwest UK …
It is so cold even human intervention cannot save them,
Zoo loses precious birds to cold (The Times of India, January 6, 2011)
If only we produce more CO2 these birds would have been saved!
“…physiological problems with the crabs”
yeah, they walk funny!
Read this
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf
and you will know 100%, without a doubt, that these are NOT, repeat NOT scientists. Scientists look at all facts, present and past. You think this is cold, you’ve not seen anything yet.
“We suspect that climate change…”
Sheesh! These people have CAGW on the brain! You know the saying, “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.”
I never could tell them from Whizo Butter! (Probably because of Global Warming…)
Sadly this is no longer about truth, but about politics. And politics has always been about persuading “the masses” who don’t really care enough to investigate beyond the headlines.
A catchy phrase, a compelling photo, a good story.
Fortunately the spin doctors of “climate change” are now shooting themselves in the foot, as they assume that people not only are too lazy to investigate, but also too lazy to think.
How cold is it?
I love the way you post a “Climate Craziness of the week” thread only for it to become completely redundant a mere six hours later…..
Well. I had posited in an earlier thread that the recent biologic exterminations were caused by global cooling, and I think it will prove true. The 10 year build up of biomass may be at at end. This is not a sign of warming, it is a sign of cooling. Warming can no more cause cooling then vice versa. We need the names of the idiots that suggest such so they can be sent to the home with their grants and privileges awarded to the industries and people who died because of this fraud.
PS: h/t to Konrad on that link yn the tips & notes thread at:
Konrad says:
December 22, 2010 at 2:28 pm
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf
He’s right, read some of it, fascinating what the past holds climatologists never mention.
The Cambodian crab video is very funny. The crabs are almost completely dead when they are getting cleaned.
If we were not being hijacked with over bloated tax bills and extra ‘eco-greenie’ fees on everyday purchases, it’d almost be funny. Lunatics, the lot of them.
Just wondering… if they are cold or frozen wouldn’t they still be good to process to be consumed by other domesticated animals? Bet pigs would eat them up and likely good for them too.
“rotten ice”! now it’s “sudden snow”. and it’s just “weather”…..
8 Jan: UK Sun: Alastair Taylor: Snow is back as UK gets 5 inches
But Met Office experts said it was NOT going to a return to the “big freeze” of last month and the sudden snow would “vanish as quickly as it arrived”….
Helen Chivers, forecaster at the Met Office, said: “Really, it’s just normal wintry weather we’ve got over the next few days. As we go into next week, it’s going to be very much milder.” …
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3336304/Snow-is-back-as-UK-gets-5-inches.html
The real problem is not the fools; the problem is that nobody ever confronts the fools face-to-face. Nobody looked at Sykes in open-mouthed astonishment and asked him directly: “HUH????? Do you realize what you just said????”