From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
NOVEMBER 2021
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DECEMBER 2023
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/28/return-beaver-water-vole-reason-cheerful-nature-rspb/
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😀 Baseless fearmongering 😀
Polar bears will eat snowy owl chicks if they come across a nest…..are snowy owls not a favored species?
No surprise here.
What really annoys me however, is that I have never seen/heard of any of those fantasists being asked to comment on their crazy forecasts when they are proven wrong.
If I had the time/ability/ resources I would start a web site dedicated to such .
https://extinctionclock.org/
Thank you! Book-marked.
Correlation!
Increased alarmism = greater numbers of polar bears and now, puffins too.
Keep it up
I’m very glad there are more Puffins, I hope they flourish and spread further throughout the UK. They are, apparently, delicious.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Guga?
I am pretty sure they’re both loathly.
Wake me when there is a record number of ortolans.
Nope everything is ‘delicious’ until you’ve eaten one.
Not Clowns…Clowns taste funny
Are they chocolate covered like their southern hemisphere cousins?
No but, remakably, there are a wide range of ‘Puffin’ brand snack foods from ‘Puffin poo’ belgian chocolates, salted caramel ‘Puffin eggs’, and Barbara’s ‘Puffins’ cereal in original, cinnamon and peanut butter flavours!
Polar Bears and Puffins, not getting with the program, Oh My! Maybe the Ship Of Fools, with the CAGW fanatics on board, will hit an iceberg and sink, hopefully sooner than later. I am willing to bet that the little designer-bird Puffins would find alternative food if any of the predictions came true, making them smarter than the BTO alarmists.
Whatever happened to insectageddon?
I hope it continues! 🙂
As soon as they found out the UN had put them on our menu they packed up and made themselves scarce. They’re in hiding.
Story tip:
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/07/08/spent-solar-panels-likely-to-end-up-in-landfills-because-recycling-them-isnt-economical/
That would be one way to end the solar panel – get every manufacturer to pay for collection and recycling and they’ll be far too expensive to use.
Of course, there are very real problems that need addressing…. the square peg in the round hole….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12909093/Wedding-feud-Good-Samaritan-dead-Sheffield-car-ram-attack.html
Brexit Benefit
The puffins were vanishing, yes they were, because their food (sand eels) was being stolen away from them.
All up and down the UK’s east coast by trawlers from Denmark (Europe) hoovering up all those little fishes so as to make Omega 3 Fish Oil for people to eat.
Because it was ‘healthy’, especially (does this get any crazier) for people’s minds.
It did get crazier as oil is a tiny part of yer typical Sand Eel and the remaining mush (‘fish meal’) was determined to be a lovely (cheap) food source for Farmed Salmon in Scotland
While farmed salmon was/is the most pretentiously healthy stuff to eat that there could ever be. Primarily because the salmon that ate it sucked out the oil that the fish-meal makers couldn’t extract. ##
The salmon summarily dumped immense piles of high protein stink onto the beds of the Scottish lochs where they were being ‘farmed’ and poisoned those places forever.
It took 5kg of fish-meal (sand eel) to make 1kg of salmon.
The Enquiring Mind did briefly wonder why, in order to get these imagined health benefits, humans didn’t eat the 1kg of sand eel that they’re getting via the salmon and so leave 4kg of sand eel in the water for the puffins.
And plenty other seabirds too.
The reappearance of Puffins up/down the east coast strongly suggests that the Danish fishermen have been told to ‘Sling their hooks‘
## What is gorgeous and saddening is that seals would break into the fish farms and ‘kill’ the salmon. Not that the actions of the seals was saddening.
The seals killed by simply taking one single bite out of each fish they encountered.
The seals ‘stole’ the liver of the salmon they attacked and to this day, one understands why.
That human minds are now so trashed by eating sugar that they cannot begin to comprehend why the seal stole only the salmon’s livers and left the rest ‘to waste’ – while we do the exact opposite.
i.e. We actually throw away the best bits and eat the toxic bits.
And do the same with cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys etc etc etc
THAT is the saddening bit.
“”human minds are now so trashed by eating sugar””
Really?
I’ll have a pint of what you’re having. It seems to be in tune with officialdom – and without mind altering substances I just can’t get there
Q: and you do know why ‘record’ puffins???
A: because of record sand eels
OK, but why would the disappearance of the trawlers cause the sand eels to become ‘record’
Unlike inside the GHGE, there are No Free Lunches, esp out there in the North Sea.
Not even ‘free wind’ for the turbines.
But there is, Record Free Soil Erosion.
UK farmers especially on the ‘arable east side’ are shovelling huge amounts of high nutrient soil/dirt/silt/sediment into the waters and that is, effectively feeding the Sand Eels
Uh oh, what if there is no such thing as free soil erosion?
Thanks, Peta of Newark, for the very explicit and educational comment.
Also, thanks for killing my appetite this morning. If I read appetite-suppressing comments like that every morning, I could lose 20 pounds in a month.
Regards,
Bob
Nothing to do with there being no avian predators taking the sandeels?
What, like Puffins? Now that is a very circular argument.
“… new research reveals….”
Reveals? I thought revealing is for religion, not science. Science informs.
then I see the weasel word “could”
Well, it might…!
Perhaps
I am luck enough to live in North Devon and have visited Lundy a few times over the years and to be fair I have never seen a Puffin. The main reason for the halt in the decline of the Puffin on Lundy was the eradication of the rat population on the island which by one means or another were introduced by humans.
It’s strange that the British Trust for Ornithology in its list of dangers to the marine environment doesn’t mention offshore wind farms. We are getting one off the North Devon coast unfortunately, but I guess you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs (sorry for the pun) and I’m sure any Puffins who have managed to miss the blenders will be grateful for all that lovely green energy.
https://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/local-news/1333905/wind-farm-underground-cable-plan-could-not-have-chosen-a-worse-site-in-north-devon.html
More Mickey Mann BS talking to MSNBC.
opps- wrong link
not sure why I’m not posting the correct link- it’s just not working- though I’m careful- for some reason it’s bringing up an old WUWT site
They both appear to be the same, Joseph. Unfortunately.
First time I’ve heard Michael Mann speak and he does come across as a weaselly little man with no apparent redeeming features.
He’s a dweeb.
OK, now it’s working. When I first posted the above, I didn’t see those videos- I saw something from WUWT- a chart or whatever. Strange glitch!
A minor correction: it’s Lundy Island, not Lunday. On a clear day one can see Lundy from Crooklets Beach in Bude.
“” Bude the ‘Maldives of Cornwall’ after being given £2m to fight climate change””
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/bude-named-maldives-cornwall-after-8008128
Everyone is cashing in
Unlike the actual Maldives, Cornwall is sinking a little and eroding fairly rapidly (on a geological timescale) so probably needs a bit of help. Shame they had to play the ‘climate change’ card to get it though.
I use Lundy as my weather forecast when looking out to the Bristol Channel; “Lundy high, it’s going to be dry, Lundy low it’s going to snow, (and my favourite) Lundy clear, rain is near. If you can’t see Lundy at all then it’s probably already raining.
I only ever saw millions of the little buggers in Orkney.
Yeah there are far more Puffins in Scottish waters but with a similar declining population from the overfishing of sand eels. Let’s hope they recover as well.
The UK has banned fishing for sandeels in UK waters to allow their recovery and support the predators dependent on them such as puffins.
Banned for the last three years.
The name means ‘puffin island’, from the Old Norse lundi meaning ‘puffin’ (also Lundey in Iceland).
Apparently ‘tammie norries’ is what the Norse descendants call them (in Gaelic probably).
‘Tammie Norries’ is scots slang for a stupid person, not gaelic. Apparently Puffins look a bit stupid or have an air of stupidity about them which gave rise to the name. Their gaelic name is Budhaig, I think.
Back in the earlier years of Global Warming they were blaming the decline in UK sparrow population on Global Warming , we I was young there were thousands of the delightful cheeky chaps , but now hardly any , but when I go to Spain or Portugal there are thousands which are both much warmer countries . So I’m not sure why they’ve disappeared, I do see more birds of prey now , 20 years ago you wouldn’t see many but now we have multiple pairs of buzzards in the woods at the back of house .
The reasons for the decline are still pretty vague but the decline has slowed and numbers are starting to increase again in parts of the UK.
As in Germany, there are years with increasing and years with decreasing numbers.
Buzzards and Co vice versa.
I read that it’s domestic cats that are responsible for the deaths of the majority of song in the UK. That’s why I keep a water pistol handy by the back door 😉
You may have heard it, but its utter bullshit.
A mating pair of small birds may live 5 years and have 3 clutches of 4 eggs per year. That’s 60 offspring.
Of whom 58 need to die without reaching adulthood.
Cats are simply not that good, but they are happy to bring in the corpses of those that starve or freeze to death, or have heart attacks in flight.
Cats are far happier killing rodents – mice, rats and even stoats and weasels, as well as other small mammals like rabbits and hares.
Some years ago, I watched our cat catch birds (Lorikeets and Rosellas), and it did so often and very easily. The birds were definitely not dead the moment before. That was by day, at night the cat killed possums – it was an insatiable killing machine. When it died it was not replaced.
The decline of the Horse and open pasture has massively changed the ecology.
Every inch of the UK is managed in some way, and vast crop farms are not insect or bird friendly. And neither are modern buildings sparrow friendly.
Well, there are plenty around my village in Suffolk.
Any thatched houses in your village?
We are also seeing a number of Blue Fin tuna in the South West waters of the UK which we never used to see , but I suspect they are just moving to escape pressures of being fished for .magnificent site to see these fish in action . Also along the south coast Caribbean trigger fish have been turning up , they were noticed about 25years ago of a certain part of Chesil Beach but have now spread further along to Portsmouth . I don’t think this is climate change related just natural evolution
There used to be a sport fishery for Bluefin tuna in the North sea off the Yorkshire coast, in fact the world record blue fin was caught there in 1954. They were believed to have been feeding on the herring but the overfishing resulted in their disappearance. With restrictions on Blue fin harvesting they appear to be making a comeback.
Just goes to show what can be done when we set a realistic goal to sort something out rather than throwing billions at unachievable and unrealistic targets.
I went to the article mentioned from 2021. There is not a single fact or objective observation cited to support the claims and predictions that make up the bulk of this trashy “study” which is no more than a cheap crystal ball carnival session with non-academic fraudsters. And yet this is considered suitable output for people perusing an academic career these days. We need to vote out the idiots and defund all fraudulent academic enterprises if we are going to survive as a culture. There is a “climate crisis” – a crisis of logic and critical thinking.
Juliet Vickery. “There is a very real chance that our grandchildren may never know what it is like to see a Puffin in Britain and Ireland.”
Wasn’t it snow ? …confused…
😀
The rich, who own the media, are the ones spreading the “climate change” misinformation story.
They control the politicians through their campaign contributions and the universities and researchers through their grants.
Bloomberg estimates the cost of reaching the 2050 goal to be $US200 trillion.
The rich are planing on making trillions.
More puffins means that more puffins are going to die :
That’s climate horror !
For the record, this is good news but it is nothing to do with climate change.
The puffins declined because a ship crashed and carried rats to the island. The rats ate the bird eggs.
In 2002 the National Trust started killing off the rats.
Within a decade, puffin numbers had tripled.
More information here.
Polar bears, then penguins, then pika, now puffins. All preposterously wrong climate alarms.
Come to think of it, I cannot recall a single climate alarm the alarmists got right in the past 4 decades. Hasn’t phased them a bit. Too much money involved.
Trillions.
It’s worse than thought……. for the alarmists.
We need to repeat ad nauseam every failed prediction.
The Puffins will be fine unless they start displacing something actually endangered:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna129926
What a great idea, lets shoot all the invasive grey squirrels in the UK and let the red squirrels take over again. sarc
That used to be policy, in Mid-Wales we used to get a bounty for grey squirrel tails.
The lady who made the forecast was very clever; she put the date well into the future. She also used the conditional ‘could’.