Let's start you off with a real whopper, readers:
Related: Birds Gotta Fly....
"Amid warming, birds shift north; Range moves 35 miles in 40 years" by Dina Cappiello, Associated Press | February 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn't a canary at all. It's a purple finch.
As the temperature across the United States has gotten higher, the purple finch has been spending its winters more than 400 miles farther north than it used to. And it's not alone.
An Audubon Society study to be released today found that more than half of 305 bird species in North America, a hodgepodge that includes robins, gulls, chickadees, and owls, are spending the winter about 35 miles farther north than they did 40 years ago.
Yeah, and because some agenda-pushing authority says it we are supposed to believe it? Did you see the links at the beginning of this post? Have you had enough agenda-pushing lies about the WEATHER yet, America?
The purple finch was the farthest northward mover. Its wintering grounds are now more along the latitude of Milwaukee instead of Springfield, Mo. Bird ranges can expand and shift for many reasons, among them urban sprawl, deforestation, and the supplemental diet provided by backyard feeders. But researchers say the only explanation for why so many birds over such a broad area are wintering in more northern locales is global warming.
(The lying is astounding and astonishing, isn't it?)
Over the 40 years covered by the study, the average January temperature in the United States climbed by 4.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
NOT THIS YEAR!!
"This month's temperatures are running 3 to 4 degrees colder than normal.... Temperatures this frigid month are also well below the January average of 29.3 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. On many days the temperature plummeted more than 15 degrees below the historical average for that day"
I guess that explains the ARCTIC BIRDS setting up shop in Massachusetts, huh?
That warming was most pronounced in Northern states, which have already recorded an influx of more Southern species and could see some Northern species retreat into Canada as ranges shift.
Are they shameless or what?
"This is as close as science at this scale gets to proof," said Greg Butcher, the lead scientist on the study and the director of bird conservation at the Audubon Society. "It is not what each of these individual birds did. It is the wide diversity of birds that suggests it has something to do with temperature, rather than ecology."
Related: Scientists Admit They Made Up Global Warming Data
The study provides compelling evidence for what many birders across the country have long recognized - that many birds are responding to climate change by shifting farther north.
Yeah, that's why we had VISITORS from up there this year!
Please STOP LYING!! You are HURTING PEOPLE!!!
Previous studies of breeding birds in Great Britain and the Eastern United States have detected similar trends. But the Audubon study covers a broader area and includes many more species. The study of migration habits from 1966 through 2005 found about one-fourth of the species have moved farther south. But the number moving northward - 177 species - is twice that.
(Blog author just shaking his head in exasperated anger)
The study "shows a very, very large fraction of the wintering birds are shifting" northward, said Terry Root, a biologist at Stanford University. "We don't know for a fact that it is warming. But when one keeps finding the same thing over and over . . . we know it is not just a figment of our imagination."
What seeing birds? I think you better get your heads checked!
The research is based on data collected during the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in early winter. At that time of year, temperature is the primary driver for where birds go and whether they live or die.
Need I even say it?
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Nevertheless, we get this pfffffttttt!
"Obama urged to attend climate summit" by Washington Post | February 10, 2009
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to President Obama to attend a hastily planned summit here in late March to promote international efforts to stem the pace of climate change, according to senior UN officials and delegates.
The UN chief is hoping to harness the new American president's popularity to press for action to reduce carbon emissions before the world's leading economic powers - known as the Group of 20 - meet in London on April 2 to tackle the global financial crisis, according to the officials.
His popularity is leaking just like the fart mist coming from your mouth, Ban!!!
UN officials are concerned that the world's richest countries, including the United States, may withhold funding for environmentally friendly programs - including a renewable energy initiative - because of the financial crisis. "We want to make sure the G-20 don't forget the poor and don't forget green," a senior UN official said.
Related: Did You Forget About Davos?
How about that lunch spread, huh?
But Obama has made no commitment to attend the meeting, according to US officials. And the UN chief is planning to shelve the event if Obama cannot come, UN diplomats say.
Ban has said that climate change is one of the most serious crises he expects to face. He will press the United States and other industrial powers to agree to massive reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases at an international conference in Copenhagen at the end of the year.
Oh, now we need MASSIVE REDUCTIONS for a NON-EXISTENT PROBLEM!!
Talk about the LYING FEAR-MONGERING!!
STOP IT, you HARMFUL BASTARDS!!!!!!
Maybe Obama can think it over at camp:
"First family heaps praise on Camp David after visit
WASHINGTON - President Obama gave rave reviews to one major perk of the office - the mountaintop retreat at Camp David, Md., but he's still getting used to some details of his new life, including the fact he has to duck when boarding his presidential helicopter.
After his first stay at the presidential hideaway in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, he called it "beautiful" as he talked yesterday about his weekend visit with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia. Obama said he hit a few golf balls and played a little basketball while there. "The girls just had a great time," Obama said.
Yeah, that's nice -- as Palestinians suffered, Pakistanis and Afghanis were killed by your missile strikes, violence raised its ugly head in Iraq, etc, etc, etc. Glad you had a good time at the cottage, dick!
But on the way out of Washington yesterday, the 6-foot-1-inch Obama bumped his head when boarding Marine One on the White House's south lawn. It was Obama's fifth flight aboard the craft, which ferried him to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. He then flew on Air Force One to Indiana to promote an economic stimulus package.
Hey, hey, hey!!! What's the CARBON FOOTPRINT on that, guy?
Oh, and that hot spot they been promoting?
"conditions were much cooler"
And I'm not trying to minimize death and destruction, readers; I'm just illustrating how the MSM unceasingly pushes its agenda despite what your senses tell you.
Related: MSM Lying Makes You Depressed
And lok at what happens to you if you TELL the TRUTH!!
"Lawmakers called for his resignation"
"Environment minister bans climate change ads" by Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press | February 10, 2009
DUBLIN - Northern Ireland's environment minister announced yesterday he has banned British government TV ads on climate change and denounced their energy-saving message as "insidious propaganda."
He is RIGHT!!!
Sammy Wilson has repeatedly raised eyebrows since winning the environment post in Northern Ireland's power-sharing government last year. The hard-line Protestant, a leading light in the Democratic Unionist Party, argues that global weather patterns are naturally cooling, not warming - and humanity should invest in coping with God-driven climate change, not trying to slow down a manmade problem.
Look at how the agenda-pushing Zionist MSM tries to discredit him with its subtle slander!
His latest fight is against the central government in London, which funds an "Act on CO2" campaign encouraging citizens to reduce their use of electricity and fossil fuels.
When the RICHERS STOP JETTING and LIMOING, START PROTESTING NASCAR and the WAR MACHINE, and meet me at the shit pit, then I'll take them seriously.
Until then... PFFFFFFFTTTTT!
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, but the Catholic-Protestant coalition in Belfast has autonomy in many areas. Wilson said the Act on CO2 ads were "giving people the impression that by turning off the standby light on their TV, they could save the world from melting glaciers and being submerged in 40 feet of water."
He said the ads, which have been running on British television stations, including those in Northern Ireland over the past year, represented "an insidious propaganda campaign" peddling "patent nonsense."
Wilson said he had already written to the British government's Department of Energy and Climate Change warning it not to distribute any more pollution-fighting ads in Northern Ireland.
That London-based agency confirmed it would stop running TV ads in Northern Ireland pending legal advice. In Northern Ireland's fledgling government, individual ministers control their own policy patch - even when others in the four-party coalition oppose their decisions.
Catholics and Protestants from other parties said Wilson's television ad ban must win majority backing from the full Northern Ireland Assembly to become legal. Wilson said he did not need any authority but his own.
He sounds like Bushbama, I mean, Obama!!!!
Wilson won no support yesterday from outside his own conservative party, which is Northern Ireland's top vote-getter. Other lawmakers called for his resignation.
ARE YOU EFFIN KIDDING? FOR WHAT?
Questioning official dogma?
Such disputes have been commonplace in Belfast in the power-sharing era - and individual ministers have usually prevailed. Only last week, Education Minister Caitriona Ruane, a Catholic, abolished a decades-old academic selection test despite opposition from the Protestant side of the government.
Last month, Protestant sports minister Gregory Campbell rejected plans to build a new multi-sports stadium that Catholics particularly wanted. But Wilson's own party leader, First Minister Peter Robinson, declined yesterday to back the environment minister's hostility to energy-saving ads.
During an Assembly debate, Robinson said his colleague had a right to his point of view - but not to contradict official Democratic Unionist policy that backs efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Yeah, and SIG HEIL when you say that!!!
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