This is getting beyond ridiculous. Here’s a brief article in the UK Independent with the headline: Caterpillar plague on Isle of Wight was caused by climate change, says expert
It starts out simply enough:
Global warming was blamed yesterday for an increase in caterpillar infestations which can cause severe allergic reactions.
That’s true, it was blamed. Can’t argue with that.
In the latest outbreak, residents of a street in Newport, Isle of Wight, were forced to stay indoors or wear protective body-suits and face-masks to avoid coming into contact with tiny hairs shed by the brown-tail moth caterpillars.
The insects have set up home in an isolated and overgrown plot next to gardens in the street.
Ok…
Steve Gardner, who has been dealing with the infestation in West Street, said: “In general, these insects are getting worse in this country because the climate is changing and the summers are getting warmer. Normally, these insects settle in fields where they do not do anyone any harm but if they are close to houses they travel from garden to garden causing problems. As the caterpillar grows it sheds its skin and the tiny hairs float in the air and can cause a severe skin reaction.”
Well that settles that. His last name is Gardner, so he must be an expert at gardening, so it’s settled science™ that it’s caused by global warming.
Since the story didn’t say anything more about Steve Gardner than what I just quoted, it’s not impossible that he’s an authority on how climate affects entomology, and I can’t prove that global warming isn’t causing this outbreak. But the Independent certainly didn’t offer any evidence that he’s anything but a gardener, and there’s any real science behind his assertion. So Steve, if you’re reading this, could you give us the info that the Independent forgot to give, about what exactly your expertise consists of, and how you arrived at the conclusion that it’s climate change that causes the bugs? Y’know, stuff like actual temperature data, and some sort of experimental verification, something more than the conjecture they put in the article?
k thx bai.
Tags: Some Guy Named Steve
I’m sure he’ll be quoted in the next UN report as a peer reviewed journal source.
Caterpilliars? Are they D9s?
(Say a prayer to St. Pancake!)
Pancake thread!!!
@ Iron Fist:
You know what that means, don’t you? It means:
GLOBAL WARMING KILLED ST. PANCKAKE!!!!!
@ snork:
Global Warming! Is there anything it can’t do?
Iron Fist wrote:
Shut Chuck TF up?
Steve found a CLUE!
We used to have huge problems with gypsy moths around here. Haven’t seen them in quite a few years though. Went for a walk down the dead end street by my house and saw two tents in the trees filled with them. I was wondering why they came back. I never thought to blame global warming though. lol
NoThreat2U wrote:
. . . well now u know; and if it hasn’t been real warm there its most likely GWBs fault
@ NoThreat2U:
There’s been a LARGE uptick in wildlife bigger than gypsy moth larvae around us, don’t forget.
Perhaps more predators.
The Left blames everything on AGW or Bush.
I’ll bet Steve has a “husband” named Adam.
@ spinmore:
Damn the Shrub!
@ Bumr50:
I always hated those gypsy moth larvae. ICK. You couldn’t even walk near a tree for fear one would fall on you. The did a lot of spraying here in my county to get rid of them. WOndering if i should report the ones I saw…in case they are a threat.
I get major critters in my yard. I am not out in the country either. I am on a busy road, but it is all woods behind me. Deer season is always nice
Progressive Republican Bob Bennett really contemplating a run as a write in.
I’ve combined Islam with AGW and came up with this.
Feel the heat!
No prob. Send in the Orkin Army.
@ Rodan:
Prog’s got no loyalty, no honor. Lust for power is what drives them. Doesn’t matter which party they are in.
@ Rodan:
Oh, and there is some killer UFC action on Spike right now. The only problem is even in the UFC they don’t allow groin shots. Fight before last the guy who lost caught a kick from a guy wearing white spandex shorts and no cup. ‘Nad 1 sticking out there begging for a shin kick, but dude didn’t throw it. I’d have blasted him and taken the warning.
This just may be another Zionist conspiracy. If any recall the Muslims have accused the Jews of training animals to attack them. They do have a mosque on the Isle of Wight, after all.
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Macker wrote:
And they both have no belly buttons.
DOUCHE-BAG
song_and_dance_man wrote:
You mean like the giant man-eating badgers of Basra?
Obama promised lots of new jobs for Caterpillar….voila!
BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE OBAMA !!
The Whole of Nature is coming Unglued. Signs and Portents of the Apocalypse Everywhere. The Center Cannot Hold. The Tipping Point is Imminent. A Butterfly will Flap its Wings and Precipitate the Cascade of Catastrophe. The Unstoppable Water Vapor Feedback will Destroy Life as it is Known.
But if you purchase this carbon coupon, you will be saved. Not the others, but you.
@ Bumr50:
If he were up for re-election he wouldn’t be saying such things. Ed used to be one of the few level headed (D)’s out there, and if you recall during the 2000 election, when Gore was trying to steal it, he suggested Gore just give up. He lost the DNC chairmanship shorty after.
It is queer how the Left thinks that just by saying a thing is so- in this case the Tea Party is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the current (D) loses- it makes it so. Well they can keep thinking that way.
On another note, he, and the others touting this nonsense, may just be trying to encourage the base by trying to make them think what they say is true. What a bunch of idiots.
@ lobo91:
I was looking for that story and had it wrong. I knew it was badgers but for some reason I thought they were accusing the Jew. Well, it looks like the coin is turned and the Muslims are training caterpillars against the Brits in retaliation. It sure took them a long time, but I’ll give them a break, since it must be like herding cats. Ha, cats!
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Doppelganger wrote:
Ahhh not that kinda Caterpillar
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@ song_and_dance_man:
My favorite part of that story is the quote from the British officer:
I’m pretty sure that my response to a question about something that stupid would have been more along the lines of, “Are you f*cking kidding me?”
More of this sh*t.
I mean, what do you say?
@ lobo91:
I remember reading the story when it was posted at 1.0. If not for the BBC logo I might have thought it was Iowahawk.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Or the Onion.
Hey it looks like the THESIS is back!
@ snork:
And that reminds me. St. Pancake was never banned from the Swamp.
lobo91 wrote:
ROTFLMAO… I would have said, Oh damn you caught us, sorry about that our bad…
@ Bumr50:
The Proggy Republicans would rather see the Democrats win than a conservative. With them in the Party leadership, it is no wonder that the years since 1994 have been so disappointing for us. We have to get rid of them befor/while we get rid of the Prog Democrats. We have to win. The future of the country, for real, depends on it.
@ Iron Fist:
That is the truth!
@ doriangrey:
Sort of like when the Iranians foiled the secret British plot to spy on them using squirrels?
Bumr50 wrote:
These are the sore loser rino sob’s who will cut off their nose to spite their face. Let’s hope the voters see through this b.s.
Iron Fist wrote:
The Democrats figured out a way to destroy the Republican party, like the Marxist/communist/socialists that they are, they chose infiltration. When faced with the possibility of loosing to a conservative republican, they fulfill their mission any way necessary.
@ Rodan:
We see how the Washington establishment fights for the status quo. In 1994 we voted a Revolution, and we never got it. This time around, revoliution is in the air. Time to clean house!
lobo91 wrote:
Heh heh heh can you say insanely paranoid?
@ snork:
@ doriangrey:
Never underestimate the ability of Muslims to believe stupid shit.
Bumr50 wrote:
Sounds like the Kagan was infatuated early on by Socialism. I read the first few pages of real text and went straight(no pun intended) to the last line of the last page.
“Yet if the history of Local New York [the most prominent of the SP in America, ed.] shows anything, it is that American Radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their hope.”
I’m going to have to read the whole thing, instead of just perusing it. Nice post Bumr50.
@ Bumr50:
I say they should be SHOT.
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lobo91 wrote:
Worthy of this musical segue?
I say the Brits just unleash the Badgers and Squirrels of Hell on these hair shedding caterpillars?
@ Iron Fist:
Progressives of both parties need to be defeated.
Didn’t Britain have one of the coldest winters on record? Lots of snow and ice, even in London?
It is amazing how gullible people are and so ready and eager to push the latest talking points of ignorance. This guy Steve sounds like a dummy who just wants to fit in and is thrilled to be quoted in an article. I guess everyone is an expert if you are a lib journalist shilling for the thieving grifters pushing the ponzi scheme.
Ridiculous.
@ Macker:
ROTFLMAO… Works for me…
pp. 129-130
TO THE FINAL CONFLICT:
SOCIALISM IN NEW YORK CITY, 1900-1933
By
ELENA KAGAN
April 15, 1981
A senior thesis submitted to the
History Department of Princeton University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts
April 15,
Sounds like a sympathetic ear at the least.
@ Macker:
Sorry! I meant to ask “what would the hypothetical, level-headed us say” not what we’re really thinking!
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@ Bumr50:
Oh dear god, please dont tell me you are even remotely surprised that Obama nominated a dyed in the wool Marxist to the Supreme Court…
@ chickadee:
About 6 years ago California had a hundred year winter when it rained everywhere, and the Spring was also called a hundred year cycle. Well I just happened to visit the local San Gabriels many times, and the not so local Anza Borrega on a five day trip. I saw flowers and bugs I had never seen in my 40 years there. In the San Gabriels I saw an army of ants that were bigger than any other ever witnessed and the Borrega had caterpillars in abundance that were over 4 inches long. But the flowers were what really amazed. It’s hard to describe, but the hills were alive with the sights of living.
If that was AGW, then more of it and faster please.
@ Bumr50:
#45
@ doriangrey:
Nope! I’m just happy to have this information that Princeton was at least feigning to withhold.
Small victories these days.
Bumr50 wrote:
The professors and administrators of Princeton are Marxist traitors too, so no surprise that they tried to keep one of their most successful indoctronies from being exposed.
@ doriangrey:
Too bad the Republicans won’t make any use of it.
She’s going to be confirmed. I’d put money on it.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Amen.
Sounds beautiful there.
lobo91 wrote:
Probably, but considering who nominated her, it really doesn’t matter as she is symptomatic of every individual he will nominate.
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