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- isn’t this result on whaling absolutely fantastic (see also here, here, here)?
- I heard my first Blackcap this spring at Stanwick Lakes on Monday – a March Blackcap
- IPCC – we’re doomed, but not if we do something (lots, soon)
- BGBW results
- I was distracted a few times in a meeting the other day by a high-flying male Brimstone whizzzzing past the window
- some nice positive feedback from the talk I gave on Saturday (here)
- I’m hoping to see a Hen Harrier tomorrow…
- I was impressed that one of my MEPs, Bill Newton Dunn, contacted me about vultures and diclofenac
Went out for 4 target species and failed on every one but managed ring tailed harrier, 1/1 peregrines, 4 Short eared owls, 4 Buzzard and a kestrel all 100 yards from the car in just over an hour. Returned home to find Short eared Owl displaying out of the window!! That’s why birding is so brilliant.
It seems like good news if the whaling is stopped but putting your own house in order first springs to mind as far as this country is concerned.
I am puzzled by this comment. Are you seriously suggesting we should eschew any involvement in international conservation issues until British biodiversity is 100% safe? Surely we can fight on more than one front at once?
Jonathon, quite right we should fight any destruction to wildlife but we as a country have an appalling record regarding wildlife conservation. Before telling other countries what to do we should improve our own record.
Further updates about the raptor poisonings in Ross-shire:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26850709
16 dead birds now.
Does anybody expect the culprit to be punished when the police and judiciary are so stuffed with game industry lackeys? Didn’t think so.
Great news about ban on whaling using science as a way to exploit them.
It is simply a barbaric practice and the world should have combined long ago to buy no products from country’s doing the slaughter.
I had my first singing Blackcap on Saturday. I think everything is early this year.
“we’re doomed, but not if we do something”
Outbreak of reality beginning:
https://ipccreport.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/why-uk-climate-change-policies-are-pointless-robin-guenier/
Climate change policies are not pointless. They are absolutely essential.
We are now seeing the results of people like Mr Cobb denying anything has even been happening. Thankfully only the most deluded keep up that argument anymore. The main opposition these days seems to be along the lines of “oh well, what’s the point us doing anything”.
So, at least a lot of progress has been made over climate change – it’s a shame it’s been too slow and we are now seeing the long-predicted results:
severe
pervasive
irreversible
We should be taking this much more seriously but even the major conservation organisations barely registered the very recent IPCC report.
You have a severe problem with comprehension.
Also, you have used the word “denying”. This is an offensive allusion to Holocaust denial, as you well know.
The IPCC activists on WGII have been unable to maintain their desired level of alarmism, given the evidence presented to them by scientists – and have recognised that decarbonising the economy in a futile attempt to stop climate change is, er …, futile. Adaptation is key, as it has always been.
The shrill reactions from decarbonistas to the WGII report are what could be expected from those who are realising they have caught the wrong policy bus
I don’t know what planet some people are on
How have the predictions for projected warming changed over the last 20 years Mr Cobb? Was “alarmism” wrong? Have observations been at the low end or high end of the ranges projected by various organisations?
And regarding my previous comment getting four dislikes… well I guess that’s four people who are rather embarrassed and not a little angry they can’t say climate change isn’t happening anymore, can’t say it isn’t man-made anymore and can’t say “oh well, we’ll have warmer summers and will be able to grow grapes again”.
1. It’s not happening.
2. It’s happening, but it’s natural.
3. It is man-made, but we can deal with it.
4. Why didn’t you TELL us?
“I don’t know what planet some people are on”
That’s not surprising given your problem.
You can access the data you need – UAH, RSS, Hadcrut3 and NASA GISS from publicly available sources.
Your numbered list is as meaningless out of context as it will be to its 1480 retweeters – more lazy copy and paste