Shrimpbox
Gold Member
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/u...&contentCollection=Environment&pgtype=article
Before I get on the birds let me say another article in the nytimes claims the water in our waterways is getting healthier and that yes it is because of regulation. This is what I expect the EPA to do instead of using its clout to further political agendas. Congratulations.
But this bird article is exactly why I can't get on board with global warming. In my six decades on this planet I have been all over this country and on the water of the Gulf of Mexico. Supposedly the 20th century was a time of extreme global warming and climate change, and if it was than we need more of it to help,the bird pop. When I was a kid growing up in Md. And visiting the NE every summer I never saw a turkey and I lived on a farm. Today from Vermont to Florida turkey's are everywhere and expanding. There are more bald eagles. There are so many osprey that they have become a stinking nuisance bird. Brown pelicans have become ubiquitous on the gulf coast. Gulls and seabirds are so plentiful that we have to hose off the bird shit every day on the boat. I have actually pushed by catch overboard and the stuff never hit the water because the pelicans were packed so tight up against the boat. In tallahassee the Canadian geese stop traffic on six lane highways, like most Yankees they find life in the south so good that they stay here year round and never migrate. In the winter the flocks of ducks in our brackish water are so thick they look like an oil slick. The dove population is off the chain as well as the raptors that feed on them.
So this report cannot stand up to the overwhelming empirical evidence, which leads thinking people to believe that the Audubon society is just another shill for the global warming hoax. That is too bad.
Before I get on the birds let me say another article in the nytimes claims the water in our waterways is getting healthier and that yes it is because of regulation. This is what I expect the EPA to do instead of using its clout to further political agendas. Congratulations.
But this bird article is exactly why I can't get on board with global warming. In my six decades on this planet I have been all over this country and on the water of the Gulf of Mexico. Supposedly the 20th century was a time of extreme global warming and climate change, and if it was than we need more of it to help,the bird pop. When I was a kid growing up in Md. And visiting the NE every summer I never saw a turkey and I lived on a farm. Today from Vermont to Florida turkey's are everywhere and expanding. There are more bald eagles. There are so many osprey that they have become a stinking nuisance bird. Brown pelicans have become ubiquitous on the gulf coast. Gulls and seabirds are so plentiful that we have to hose off the bird shit every day on the boat. I have actually pushed by catch overboard and the stuff never hit the water because the pelicans were packed so tight up against the boat. In tallahassee the Canadian geese stop traffic on six lane highways, like most Yankees they find life in the south so good that they stay here year round and never migrate. In the winter the flocks of ducks in our brackish water are so thick they look like an oil slick. The dove population is off the chain as well as the raptors that feed on them.
So this report cannot stand up to the overwhelming empirical evidence, which leads thinking people to believe that the Audubon society is just another shill for the global warming hoax. That is too bad.
