Posted by
Catmman on Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:37:01 AM
How about this for an analysis of some of the latest AGW alarmism...
From The Diplomad:
http://diplomadic.blogspot.com/2007/08/bullwinkle-must-die.htmlAn old hunting friend once told The Diplomad that he actually agreed with an anti-hunting zealot's statement that hunting moose was about as challenging as shooting a parked bus. If that's true, my friends, then that's good, very good news for the environment and for threatened HUMMER owners everywhere.
The facts are in. The scientists have agreed. Bullwinkle must die!
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.
Norway has some 120,000 moose but an estimated 35,000 are expected to be killed in this year's moose hunting season, which starts on
September 25 . . . (Der Spiegel)
And in keeping with an 'ecological solution to the moose threat, Diplomad offers this:
But is there a politically correct response (i.e., one not involving firepower) to the moose threat? Yes, indeed! Wolves! Huge, roaming packs of the hungry beasts! They will save us!
[T]he number of wolves has seesawed upward over the past decade and is now up to 29, as many as the park has seen since 1980 and 11 more than last year . . . What's bad for moose has been good for the wolves . . . Professor Rolf Peterson of Michigan Technological University, who has lead the study of Isle Royale's wolves and moose for 34 years [said] "What we think is happening is that wolves are cashing in on moose vulnerability that's been induced by a warmer climate."
Works for me, though I am a fan of the firepower option.