40 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: There Was An Old Greenie Who Swallowed A Cat”

  4. And their you go. More genius’s and expert’s with lots of initial’s behind their names, doing what they do best. Screwing Up. No big surprise.
    These guy’s sure aren’t your grand daddy’s scientist’s, now are they.

  6. The people who decided to remove the cats should have seen it coming. I know that hindsight is 20/20, but I don’t think it was that tough to see how the dominos would fall.
    They knew there were non-indigenuous rabbits on the island. They knew that the rabbits had few predators save the cats. They knew that rabbits breed like, well, rabbits.
    This wasn’t rocket science.

  7. HOLD IT. Aren’t Greenies against technology,and especially poisons??? Love the unintended consequences.

  9. As soon as I saw it was the BBC I rejected the site as totally biased towards global warming. How many scientific examples do people like you need like the satellite analysis showing the Arctic ice sheet is at least as big as it was when they began the survey in 1997. Just look outside as winters are returning to what they were when we were kids, cold and snowy. Record cold everywhere as sunspot activity has diminished to nothing. Something the climate models never even considered, the big shiny ball in the sky.

  10. Liberals never think past the end of their noses about anything.
    We have a similar situation, there were about 20 non-native Australian Pine trees on an island at the harbor entrance. Been there for 150 or more years. But since they were non-native, the enviro-wackos had to have them removed. So they took them out. Two years later, the whole island has washed away, the inlet has sanded over and needed dredging, the local beach has disappeared, millions of dollars have been needed to try and restore the harbor entrance.. But the non-native trees are gone.

  14. “I meant the Antarctic is WARMING……”~jcl
    Of course it is, it’s summer down there.
    It’ll probably surprise you when June arrives to find the Arctic is warming again.

  17. The project to be launched in 2010 will use helicopters with global positioning systems to drop poisonous bait that targets all three pests. Later, teams will shoot, fumigate and trap the remaining rabbits, Wren said.
    Good thing the economy is sooo great or they might not be able to aford such flagrant misuse of tax dollars.
    Maybe they should set up wind farms on the island and kill two birds with one stone, so-to-speak.

  19. Vancouver Island has a problem with introduced species as well, the eastern gray squirrel, two kinds of frogs, the eastern whining and American bullfrog, and the mute swan. Which one do they start on? The swans of course, it is the easiest, the most visible, and causes the public to howl. That in turn frees up more government funding for other pet projects and leaves the two amphibian species and the squirrels to propagate at will.
    Give all these people some credit, it sounds like they are doing something useful for the environment.

  20. There’s probably no telling how many whacky projects are funded by Gummint. They could easily cut their slate by 10%.
    What scares me lately is the Gummint Bean-Counters trying to think up ways to get that gas money back, now that it’s fallin to dayyam near to $30 bucks.
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  21. “…The parks service now has a new plan to use technology and poisons that were not available a decade ago to eradicate rabbits, rats and mice from the island.
    The project to be launched in 2010 will use helicopters with global positioning systems to drop poisonous bait that targets all three pests. Later, teams will shoot, fumigate and trap the remaining rabbits, Wren said.
    Global Positioning System?
    But, but, but… Global Positioning System is a military aiding tool created by the EVIL PEOPLE AT THE PENTAGON!!!
    should greenies/animal activists be using a tool created by evil American war mongerers???( in fact if I’m not mistaken, the Pentagone not only owns the GPS but everytime you buy a GPS device , they get a “fee” because well… it is THEIR GPS and they are nice enough to let you use it… )

  23. Didn’t the same sort of thing happen in Hawaii? They brought in mongoose to kill the snakes, but it was easier for the mongoose to eat the birds eggs instead.
    And then there were the folks who suggested moving the polar bears to Antarctica!
    Some people will never learn.

  24. I wouldn’t sweat it. Most of the world’s overpopulation problems will be solved for good once the Light-Working, Planet-Healing Ocean-Lowerer-in-Chief finally outlaws carbon dioxide. Once that evil, e-e-e-evil see-oh-too has finally been eliminated from the global ecosystem, I’m expecting to hear a lot less whining from the left.
    Or maybe, once he closes Gitmo, Barack can send all the untried, unrepentant jihadists to McQuarrie Island, where they can sustain themselves, like a bunch of bearded Elmer Fudds, by hunting wabbit. Two jailbirds for the price of one!
    These are some high-quality policy concepts here! I swear, Rahm Emmanuel should have me on speed dial.

  26. This is a heck of a coincidence. I’ve been following the Mawson’s Huts Expedition to Cape Denison (Home of the Blizzard) daily and I’d fully intended to pass this unintended consequence on to you Kate. Slipped my mind–good that somebody else caught it though.
    A little late I know (expedition team left yesterday), but here’s their blog…(*). This heroic era stuff interests me–the weather aspect not so much. Nevertheless, of course, as soon as it got a little warmer than the 1978 expedition experienced, it was presented as indisputable proof of Gorebal warming by one of the team members who also happens to be “trained” in climate propagandizing by the man himself.

  27. Eeyore
    one of the USA Virgin islands, not the main one (St Thomas)
    they brought in the mongoose’ to get rid of the snakes that were killing slaves
    now the place is filthy with the critters, you can’t drive 10 feet with out damn near running one over, but not a snake on the island:-)))

  28. “Later, teams will shoot, fumigate and trap the remaining rabbits, Wren said.”
    When will PETA and all the other animal rights troublemakers be showing up to protest this?

  29. In Britain they used to rid their street of cats with great gusto, then realized that they were the best cure for the Beubonic Plague also known as the Black Death that ravaged Europe and Britain a few centuries ago.
    Cat’s control the rat population. The fleas on the rats carried the virus.
    After that they passed a law in England that it was illegal to kill cats.
    Cat’s are the best life form on the planet and the most beautiful in my opinion.
    Praised be to the feline. It protects us and the sea birds.
    They also remind us of how we should not f**k with nature. That goes for the warmists too.

  30. This group illustrates completely why the doo doo bird is extinct. Love the phrase invasive. I wonder if they think all humans are in the same category? How much would it take to eradicate man out of Australia or the World? Is perhaps a topic of vagarious discussion at these conservation meetings or the UN. After all the death cults that has lead to whole sale abortion or mercy killing is part of removing the unlikable or not perfect. Except serial killers & such. There natures little helpers in the eyes of the Liberal. This of course will be done for our own good. Little Barrier island off New Zealand being there harbinger of Change if not template for people as well.

  31. I believe we are stuck with this global warming nonsense for the next fifty years. Despite all kinds of challenges to the theory of AGW (and increasing numbers of scientists recognizing the uncertainty in claims of GW),there is scarcely a whisper in the media. What is more, politicians of all stripes keep hammering at it to score political points. Obama has taken this on as a cause. I think it is too late to turn this ship around, though the stupidity of it will sooner or later come home to roost.

  33. Something to keep in mind when people talk about Geoengineering as a Global Warming “solution”.
    In Engineering, it is never a good idea to mess with a critical system or process that you do not fully understand.

  34. ” I think it is too late to turn this ship around, though the stupidity of it will sooner or later come home to roost. ”
    LindaL….probably later.Hopefully around the time all the indoctrinated kids/young adults out there finally end paying 75% of their paychecks for their “Green” plans.Now that would be justice.Hope they like chopping wood for the mud huts they will be living in.
    Ummmmm……mud huts,and -40C. I would really like to see how that works out!!

  35. Posted by: Friend of USA at January 21, 2009 4:51 PM
    GPS was pioneered by the US Navy, but the civilian versions were patented by a group of retired Admirals, the very same ones who steered the development of the system. Deals like that don’t come along every day.

  36. When will they learn not to fool around with nature?
    It, the nature, is self regulating; it fixes everything all on its own.
    Every time these wise guys come up with a solution for the nature, it proves them wrong, as if to say buzz off wise guy. Of course there is that rule again, follow the money, if it was not for the money, the wise guys would not be able to do anything.
    A very good example on the management (actually mismanagement, not letting nature take its course) of nature can be seen in a speech of Michael Crichton on COMPLEXITY THEORY AND INVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, given at:
    Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy Washington DC
    November 6, 2005
    You can read it right here: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-complexity.html

  38. ho hum…though this old sarge admits shooting cats is more fun than shooting rabbits an them cats make a great sound when gut shot an you aint lived till ya hung two cats tied together over a clothesline talk about ecotourism imagine cat slaying trips could use rubber buckshot or somesuch to lower the enviromental impact sarge is now thinkin about going into a new business

  39. Some years ago Lizzie May was the head of the Sierra Club in Sydney, Cape Breton (Living off the government money bonanza that was and is the tar ponds.)
    The Highland forests in Cape Breton and many in New Brunswick were infested with spruce bud worm.
    New Brunswick sprayed the pests, and their forests are lush and productive.
    Lizzie mounted a campaign against spraying.
    With the support of weak politicians from Cape Breton, she had the spray program stopped.
    Even today, the spruce of the highlands of Cape Breton are decimated.
    Lizzy and her ilk should be sent to the darkest malarial areas of Africa with nothing but mosquito nets and a can of DDT spray.
    Environuts forever!

  40. Granted the quality of science has plummeted in recent years so it isn’t surprising they’d bugger it up so bad.
    On the other hand, neither the cats nor the rabbits are supposed to be there. If they got rid of both, they’d have done some good.

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