FACT CHECK: Mass bird, fish deaths occur regularly
WASHINGTON – First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year’s Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world. Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the “aflockalypse” while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110107/ap_on_sc/us_sci_dead_wildlife_fact_check
Okay. By now I’m sure we’ve all heard about the tens of thousands of blackbirds deaths and the even larger number of fish deaths that happened over the weekend. The ‘Aflockalypse’, as some are calling it. (Seems like Arkansas is a literal ‘Dead Zone’ for flocking birds. Heh.)
But despite the fact that over 1 MILLION wildlife deaths occurred in a tiny space of time, scientists and state officials are waving it off like its a normal thing! Which brings the first question to my mind…
‘WHY ARE SCIENTISTS CONTENT TO DOWNPLAY THESE EVENTS?’
At this point I’m not sure which is more disturbing – the fact that it happened, or the way it is being handled.
But the main two things that I did notice…
- Why not use the dozens of eyewitness reports from the locals who heard ‘loud successive bangs, and (in some cases) saw what happened?
- Why is the media/local officials not showing us good clear pictures of what tens of thousands of dead birds look like?
Take my word for it. Its easy to explain away incidents like this when a person hasn’t SEEN what happened. But I promise you that the sight of TENS OF THOUSANDS of dead birds laying in the street is probably one of the disturbing things you could see in your life. Many of these birds had head trauma. HEAD TRAUMA.
[Cue the mysterious music.]
And who can explain MILLIONS of fish popping up dead all at once???
I hate to break this news to you (actually, I don’t hate to :0) ) but Humans are NOT above the natural world. We are all part of the global biological eco-system. YES – whatever happens to animals affects us as well. Don’t belive me? Let bees go extinct and see what happens to our food. Heck, let DEER die off and see what happens to Walmart!
Folks there is no escaping basic natural order of things. If tens of thousands of PEOPLE dropped dead, there would be worldwide panic! Birds and fish are not so removed as to NOT be concerned. (Bird flu anyone?)
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I don’t have any answers or solutions to what’s happening, but I wouldn’t dare try to tell someone that ‘Oh, maybe fireworks scared them and caused them to fly off and crash’.
FIREWORKS? KILLED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BIRDS??!
Wow. And I bet you have a vacation timeshare on the Moon you could sell me, Mr Scientist!
Since when in the history of modern man has FIREWORKS (which occur at least bi-annually, mind you) – killed off entire bio-communities?? Not in my short lifetime.
I’d feel more comfortable if they us told any other kind of explanation:
‘They crashed into an invisible object hovering in the sky. We’re not alone in this world.’
‘We did a toxology on hundreds of birds and found bad grain/wheat/feed/poisonous water in their system’
‘The BP oil spill poison carried over into the fish, which carried over into the birds.’
‘The proliferation of wireless towers threw off their natural navigation systems and drove them mad, causing them to crash into each other.’
‘The End is in fact near, and this is Zero Hour.’
Anything dude. Tell me anything except FIREWORKS! Geeez….
At least this website explores other theories -> http://planetsave.com/2011/01/04/over-3000-birds-mysteriously-die-fall-from-sky-in-arkansas/
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FINAL NOTE: In the case of global catastrophe I do have a Disaster Plan. And the plan is for FOUR PEOPLE.
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