Discussion: Thousands Of Dead Birds Turn Up In Alaskan Lake

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We have all the signs of global warming and the bad things that happen. Any one listening? I guess when the oceans rise as well as droughts cause mass migrations, the fish become scarce and virus’ and bacteria become daily hazards, the few humans left might have time to ponder the great poisoning.

Life will go on. Human activity? It is not so well known.

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Ugh. Looks like there’s more than one “canary in the coalmine.”

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"I guess that gospel song is true: God is trying to tell you something. "

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The droughts are occurring, thThe usual culprit is civil wars (Iraq, Somalia, remenents of the Sudanese conflict); but as with earlier famines (that of course happened in the third world), while war is the starting point, nature is a sometime ‘helper’.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu

(The major reason why I struck part of this post/I was wrong.)

nobody would mistake it for the Pacific Ocean. Not even a seabird.

Unless, you know, it’s not freezing over in winter any more. In which case, if you don’t have GPS and a map, which I presume the birds did not, I expect it’s quite easy to mistake it for the Pacific Ocean which I just KNOW is around here somewhere and which isn’t frozen at this time of year.

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Yes, but can you see the birds from Palin’s front porch???