Climate Modificatin, Birds and Bees

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.

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