Almost every day, the ridiculo-meter pegs over at Joe Romm’s place. But today is special. He neuters his own headline in the very first paragraph. I just had to share the laughs.
Yes, the vampire bats are coming to get us thanks to climate change, or maybe not.
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“Biologists are paying attention to the warming climate and what potential impacts that could bring, including non-native wildlife, but this is not something that will likely happen within the next few years,” Peterson said.
Oh thank heavens. It would be a tragedy if the climate change caused vampire bats to team up with the killer bees in Texas.
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Well I for one wouldn’t like vampire bats to come to the U.S. They look kind of creepy. Vampire…vampire, that word means something. Wait! You mean bats that attack children in the night and suck their blood? THOSE kinds of bats??? Heaven help us!!!! Not THOSE!!!! Help! Help! Help! Someone, give me a valium pleeeeaaaase!!!!!
So once again – if there were to be significant climate warming (which there isn’t) then the vampires might come and get you (or not).
Meanwhile on the basis of such speculation, these clowns intend to suck the lifeblood out of economies world wide!
Yes, well there is what appears to be a large bite mark showing on the right side of Joe’s neck, maybe he is ontio something!
Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan) says that one species of vampire bats range as far north as southern Texas. Mexican (Brasilian) Free Tail bats are migratory and range from norther SA up into Oklahoma, the we know of.
Happened to see a Western mastiff bat this evening., or what I think was a Western mastiff. It was huge.
They’re already here…only we call them…”WARMISTAS” (queue diabolical laughter…)
(all in good fun, folks)
😉
Ah such amateurs! If you want to scare people about global warming then tell them human bot flies are migrating northward – then show them video of what they do.
“. . . a feared and foreign species . . .”
I did not know bats recognized political borders. Let’s just put them on the TSA No-Fly List. Problem solved. Still one wonders how people manage to survive south of the Texas border and why anyone would ever go there. Perhaps, the creatures are not as scary as the movies made about them.
Is Michael Mann a vampire bat? He’s been certainly set free to roam by global warming …
The only creepy-looking-blood-sucking dingbats I worry about are those in Washington DC.
Being mammals, bats can contract and spread rabies. Um, Rabid Rommulan Bats? Malevolent Mannian Mammals? My question would involve who is biting and infecting whom with what strain of mouth-frothing and crazed madness.
I can’t see all the headline.All I can see is” Michael Mann discussing climate wars.”Then the pic.
As someone closely associated with prominent American Bat scientists, I ask that everyone remain calm please. Bats are innocent but have been framed. Bats cause far less damage than house cats on the prowl.
If you have a Bat “infestation,” call the nearest research university. Bat scientists are usually in need of animals for experiment and most likely will collect your Bats. (The scientists have to crawl through your attic, barn, or whatever.)
Joe Romm looks rather pale since switching to ThinkProgress…
Blood sucking hairy mammals that fly…..first class.
It is not the bats I am afraid of it is the USDA. Because of the WTO-SPS Agreement our quarantine procedures have been relaxed and our within country disease testing labs closed down. This allows live cattle to cross the border without quarantine. This has been coupled with severe reduction of routine on farm testing and a shifting of focus to slaughter testing. A strategy that has allowed disease to spread undetected.
Long story short
The USA had eradicated TB but border states are losing their TB free status and the outbreaks are traced to cattle wearing Mexican Ear tags. Bovine babesiosis (carried by ticks) is another worry as is Brucellosis and Blue Tongue.
I have pages and pages of info on the subject and none of it is good. At this point I have about as much respect for the USDA and FDA as I have for Hansen and Mann…. No less because so far those two have not killed anyone because of their misguided actions. I can not say the same for the FDA and the USDA.
SHIELDING THE GIANT: USDA’s “Don’t Look, Don’t Know” Policy
Well, I for one welcome our new vampire bat overlords.
I hear them gentle voices calling ‘poor old Joe’.
Stephen Foster.
I think joe romm, thinkprogress and climate progress are a bunch of dingbats.
But it could happen.
That would be a sign of more benign weather, would it not/
Whatever happened to killer bees?
They were on some sort of march from the south.
But, just in case, I’ll wear some garlic tonight.
You folks got it all wrong. These (ding) bats are the ones that vampires use to suck in unsuspecting prey and then bleed them dry of whatever is of value.
Do I have my metaphors mixed?
Simple solution, locate all windmills along the Mexican border.
I should also note I really like bats. AGAIN the crappy quarantine of the USDA has been found at fault for the white nose disease in US bats. Seems a bat with the disease made it through inspection on food from europe(??) and spread it according to one of my Spelunking magazines. Doubt that news will ever make it into the MSM.
The biggest worry with bats is of course Rabies. Other than that they are really nice little critters.
Why Bat Houses are Important: Why should you put up a bat house? http://www.batconservation.org/drupal/bat_house