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April 2010

 

Nature calls

Where there's muck...

Strolling out around the beautiful valley where I live with a visitor from down under, taking in the beautiful spring flowers, we saw many examples of the latest craze among  dog-lovers: plastic bags containing their pets’ deposits that are tied onto trees - how odd we remarked.  At first I thought it was a local thing, this decorating of wayside vegetation with little bags of unpleasantnes.

Flowers

How rude I commented

Isn't it obvious? Replied my companion. People set out on a walk with their dog, they know there are no receptacles on their route so they leave the bags to pick up on the way back. Perhaps they hang them on a branch so they don't miss or forget them.

Catch and prosecute a few offenders to the maximum extent possible.

Then we will see a difference being made.

The laws already exist. It is just that police are too busy meeting government set targets to implement it.

Bahdger

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Mama, just killed a badger...Brian May

Anita Dobson Brian May is part of a large badger-loving community trying to block government plans to kill up to 1,000 of the furry creatures in coming months.

It's amazing what some people do when they become wealthy, eccentric, and bored

We're all God's creatures...badgers too!

Badger, It's whats for dinner

Road kill stew! Yummy.

I was stunned to find out in this fascinating article that every problem and difficulty facing mankind have been solved and now the idle non-entities of misbegotten wealth and status finally have the opportunity to concentrate on what is really important to the survival of Mankind: Badgers nasty and aggressive rodents who infect rally useful animals with TB.

Excellent, I will sleep better knowing that Brian May, PhD is on the case but oh what about the afflictions of the common Rat and cockroach?

Nasty and aggressive they may be, but they do more than urinate on pastureland. There is some ecological function they perform - - I see no mention of this. If the badgers are killed, what will the unintended consequences be?

Very true. Vaccinate the badgers, and cull the tubercular specimins. Remove the TB, not the vector. I'd have thought people would have learned about extinction as an option.

Bullets are much cheaper, and more fun then trying to vaccinate an animal that would rather rip your face off

You recommend a simply ludicrous amount of effort to save diseased vermin. Tell us about extinction? Good or Bad? Badgers are important

Mr. May has contributed to many animal charities over the years but first got involved in a campaign last year when he helped stop residents of a small Scottish island from exterminating hedgehogs that were killing birds. Thanks in part to Mr. May's intervention, the hedgehogs were deported to the mainland instead.

 

 

 

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Impact of global climate change

If the Met Office use the same computers to check this data as the ones they use to forecast the weather then the results won't be very accurate.

What about checking the previous 4.5 billion years of weather and impact of global climate change?

None of it makes any difference - the climate has been changing for billions of years and will continue to do so for more billions of years.

In comparison with that period of time then the infinitesimally small amount of data that has been collected in the last 150 years (3 ten-thousandths of one per cent) will tell us nothing.

Except that of course the eco-mentalists and the anti-climate gang can carry on arguing over all this based on nothing more than conjecture, opinion and preconceived prejudice.

As I said none of it matters. Get a life. Badger On.

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