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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Bloomberg columnist Faye Flam, “climate change” simply isn’t scary enough; so they’re trying new ways to frighten their readers.
Climate Change Is Scary; ‘Rat Explosion’ Is Scarier
Scientists warn of global warming of 2 degrees Celsius. If you think that won’t affect you, think how it may affect pests.
By Faye Flam
31 October 2018, 01:02 GMT+10What’s so scary about climate change?
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How about “rat explosion”?
As the climate warms, rats in New York, Philadelphia and Boston are breeding faster — and experts warn of a population explosion.
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The physics of climate change doesn’t have the same fear factor as the biology. Many living things are sensitive to small changes in temperature, so warming of 2 degrees Celsius will transform the flora and fauna that surround us in a big way. Other life forms are also very sensitive to moisture, and so populations will crash or explode as anthropogenic climate change continues to make wet areas more sodden and dry areas, more parched.
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In recent years, psychologists have accused conservatives of being more innately fearful than liberals, but that never quite squared with the fact that conservatives express less fear over environmental problems. Some social scientists are finally starting to question the broad equation of political preferences with fear, recognizing that different people fear different things depending on their upbringing, education and surroundings. But we’re all sharing this warming planet, and at the very least surely we can unite against a future filled with rats.
One question Faye – why hasn’t this overwhelming rat explosion you say will happen in New York, Philadelphia and Boston already happened in southern states?
Why isn’t the tropical region where I live utterly overrun by rats?
The reason of course is nature abhors an untapped food source. Any explosion in rat population is rapidly followed by an explosion in the population of predators which eat the rats. My town on the edge of the tropics abounds with all sorts of wildlife running around at night – small lizards which eat insects, urban foxes and cats which eat rats or other small vermin.
Climate fantasists like Faye seem to think in straight lines – if a few warm days leads to a rise in rat population, a lot of warm days will produce even more rats. But in the real world, rats are a problem caused by useless city officials letting the sidewalks overflow with trash, not climate change. In tidy, well managed cities, rats are never a problem, even in warm climates.
Problem with rats and mice in many parts of the world is their place in the food chain.
Snakes eat them.
In many places I have worked they bait actively and aggressively as well as maintaining a good rubbish policy in order to keep rodents in check, otherwise snakes come in looking for them.
And of course, we already have one of those two predicted 2C degrees under our belts already. Anyone notice an increase in rats so far?
A large increase in climate science rats who live off the public dole has been detected in recent years.
Alberta has had a rat patrol since 1950, and has largely been rat free since then, but I don’t know about whether the NDP socialist gov’t has kept this program up and running. Probably not since they have a lot in common with rats.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rat-control-in-alberta
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2c will lead to a plague of rats
Which will lead to a rise in pied pipers
Leading to a decline in the numbers of children
Having children is a crime against the planet
Temperatures will fall, meaning less rats
Journalists these days..just dont think things through
‘Surely we can unite against a future filled with rats.’
We are uniting against a present filled with Climate Change rats.
Well, I know of a sure fire way to cause rats to go extinct.
Declare a global emergency that the rat population is declining, open up whole new departments within academia, entertainment and government at all levels with instructions to go into full panic. Find expert propagandists to wear lab coats, prepare upside hockey-stick charts, write journal articles and lobby for vast sums of money to be wildly poured into furthering even more research and regulative discovery.
Threaten children, women, minorities and other presumed weak minded people with disasters and unspeakable horrors at a personal level if the rat population declined by even one rat. Declare that the extinction of the rat species will be an Existential Threat to the survival of the Planet, maybe even the Solar System unless we ACT NOW.
Within years, there would not be a single rat on planet earth.
I as given a tip by a farmer I knew.
He said that the best way to rid your self of rats,
was to catch a few. Said a dozen was a enough,
Put them all in a closed steel cage (wood the chew their way out).
Leave them for a while, He was not specific how long.
Just till there was only one rat left.
Then let the last rat go.
He did say it would not get rid of all the rats.
As getting a dozen rats to put in the cage again became difficult.
Add rat control to the list of NY budget needs with subway overhaul from Super Storm Sandy V2 and the political push to get the Feds to pay for it.
Well, Portland Oregon certainly has rats running in the streets that weren’t there twenty years ago – pretty much due to their refusal to use anything to kill them that might upset a blade of grass – but that’s what progressive eco-policies will get you – more filth, vermin, etc.
Then of course, there’s the human rats.
The cats in our neighborhood would love to see that happen as would other animals and birds who feed on them.
Gotta love how the left leverages climate change when their laws, etc. go bad.
A number of Rodenticides have been banned. So the end result is naturally going to be more rodents.
In a nutshell, this is what is occurring:
1) Number of effective rodentcides banned.
2) Rodent population then increases.
3) People notice
4) “News’ organizations report the rodent population increase is from climate change.
5) Snowflakes then blame evil white male deniers for bad weather that is causing rodent population problem.