Climate Modification, Birds and Bees
While we are waiting for the Tea
Party to bring down the US government, we may as well continue on with trying
to understand what the chemical, bioengineering and military industrial
complexes are trying to do to us.
In the recent study on the troublesome death
of so many birds in Canada every year, Environment Canada came up with 9
reasons for the bird deaths. Cats, both
domestic and feral, are the No. 1 culprit according to the report ( CBC Sept.
30, 2013). Ah. Thank goodness, nothing sinister in the many
thousands of recent bird deaths. The
bird deaths are simply the result of doing what cats have always done which is
to catch, or try to catch birds. But
when one reads what Richard Elliot, director wildlife research for Environment
Canada says about the 270 million bird deaths heavily incriminating cats, it
just doesn’t wash with me. Elliot is reported (by CBC) to have said that :”A cat you think is just wandering
around the premises would be killing 10 or 12 birds a night.”
I don’t believe it. In the first place, birds aren’t out at
night. Birds sleep at night, like people
do. And they sleep in safe places, like
the tops of the tallest trees they can find. Nocturnal birds like owls and hawks are
usually too large to tempt a cat and a large owl can even swoop a smaller cat
up and take it home to feed its own hungry chicks. Even if the smaller birds were flying around
at night, which they don’t do, a cat wouldn’t be able to catch any more of them
than they do during the day. I learned more about cats than I wanted to know while
rearing a house full of cat loving kids and I’ve never even heard of a cat
catching 10 or 12 birds during the day, much less at night. In fact, actually catching a bird at all is a sometime
thing with the vast majority of domestic cats.
Usually, when a cat does succeed in catching a bird, the catch is
proudly brought to the attention of the cat owners, usually to the owners’
extreme consternation.
If it was a common thing, as Mr. Elliot
would have us believe, that cats, even just some cats, routinely kill 10 0r 12
birds a night, there would at least be some evidence of this. There would be bird feathers and feet and
beaks all over neighborhoods; kids would have to kick the bird remains out of
the way to get to school in the mornings.
And if feral cats were doing the heavy lifting here, they wouldn’t be
hungry all the time, scouring neighborhoods’ for something to eat. What cats are known for catching at night are
mice, not birds. I don’t know why Mr. Elliot would make these claims about cats
as they are demonstrably untrue. And while the report goes on to list other
causes of bird deaths, the one claim that is heartbreakingly true; destruction
of bird habitat by commercial logging, is put down at the bottom of the list
(No.8). Nowhere is there any mention of
the hundreds and thousands of dead and dying birds just falling from the sky in
different parts of North America and Europe.
And there are many more questions than answers about the recent massive honey
bee deaths (colony collapse disorder).
The research I’ve done strongly
suggests that indeed chemicals are to blame for colony collapse disorder,
especially the ones classified as neonicotinoids. Certainly we should pressure the Harper
government to follow Europe’s lead and ban their use. In my own mind there is only one thin strand
that connects the sudden deaths of bees while foraging in the field with the
sudden deaths of birds flying in the sky, aside from the suddenness of both
events. And that is how both the bees
and the birds seemed to have become disoriented before they died. I’m not even sure how bee keepers could tell
the bees had become so disoriented they couldn’t find their way back home, or
how people on the ground who were being rained on by dead and dying birds could
tell that the birds as they fell appeared to be disoriented. Nevertheless, this is the talk both from
people in the midst of a rain of dead and dying birds, and of bee keepers. Which brings us to the topic of climate
engineering.
In my research I ran across mention
of Clive Hamilton’s new book EARTHMASTERS (Yale University Press). Clive Hamilton is a well known author and
professor at Stuart University and University of Melbourne, Australia. In a recent interview about his book Hamilton
tells us…”In all of the debates over how
to address climate change, climate engineering-or geoengineering-is among the
most contentious. It involves large scale manipulation of the earth’s climate
using grand technological interventions, such as fertilizing the oceans with
iron to absorb carbon dioxide or releasing sulfur into the atmosphere to reduce
radiation.”
And on the cover of Hilton’s book: “The potential risks are enormous. It is messing with nature on a scale we’ve
never seen before, and it’s attracting a flood of interest from scientists,
venture capitalists and oil companies”.
Why are venture capitalists and oil
companies so interested in geoengineering?
There must be lots of money to be
made out of large scale manipulation of the earth’s climate. Could these scientific experiments’ backed by
venture capitalists and oil companies have anything to do with the sudden
deaths of birds and/or bees? Next time
I’ll continue with this line of thought by presenting what some people have to
say who are actually doing some of the experimenting with geoengineering. Next time.
Unless the US government has come to a screeching halt in which case our
attention may be diverted for a spell.
See new posting on
motherright.tumblr.com entitled “The Gift of the Menopause”
