Honey, Money and Seafood
The following image has made more rounds on Facebook than I did as a younger man at taverns located in various municipalities in Northern Ontario.
I’m sure, prior to reposting it, not many Facebook participants researched its legitimacy. Well, I’m here to tell you it’s true – but, oh so many omissions and purpose-laden inferences.
As soon as someone sees this, however, the first thought will be that human-induced climate change must have assuredly been the cause of this action. The World Wildlife Fund is certainly not going to complete the story and fill in the absent facts or particulars – rather, they will simply enlarge the “Donate” button on their website.
The reality is that all seven species of these bees are yellow-faced bees and all of them are located exclusively in Hawaii. The reason for their decline is, in fact, the fault of humans - destruction of habitat because of urbanization, nonnative animals especially livestock, the introduction of foreign plant species, and the transplantation of nonnative predators.
This next article which is linked here talks about the reduction in the population of snow crabs in the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas. The first-ever cancellation of snow crab season has just occurred.
Since each and every prophecy and prediction of climate change has failed miserably, the journalist doomsters have started using more ambiguous words comparable to likely, perhaps, presumably, maybe, or conceivably. In making climate change culpable for the decrease in snow crabs or other controversial claims this is the type of vocabulary one can now expect.
While other factors are mentioned, the alarmist presses like Bloomberg make sure to emphasize climate change as the “most likely” culprit. As we are aware in oceans around the world, with the exception of natural oceanic phases, predation is almost certainly the cause of the reduction in all seafood.
Hypocritically, as the linked story recounts, an author for the Anchorage Daily News had written about the decline in snow crabs earlier in the year and at that time cited over-fishing as the cause, but has since climbed on board the climate change catamaran.
El Niño and La Niña are the ocean’s warm and cool phases, respectively, of a natural recurring climate-changing pattern across the Pacific Ocean. Native tribes from centuries ago would actually ascertain and access these conditions to see where the best fishing would be – both in numbers and size. In the linked paper, scientists warn of a rare third-year La Niña, so we may see yet another snow crab story next year, but again it’ll be blamed on climate change brought about by derelict human behavior.
In mid-2020, climate advocate CNN had a similar story on Salmon. However, when nature returns to normal, stories are simply neglected and no apologies are ever given.
Climate change has become a catch-all fault in nature and for natural occurrences. When anything in nature or the environment has gone awry, whether true or not, the blame is placed squarely by leftist political evaluation on a human-induced change in the climate.
As one will come to know, the key to the whole system of driving progressive politics with issues relating to climate change and all other ideological strategies rests squarely with an amiable, allied media. After all, media coverage is the primary source of all public information.