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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Nurse - Insect wing. Stat!

Where Have All the Warmist Activists Gone?
Billions of bugs wiped out on Dutch roads

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Dutch motorists kill about 133 billion insects a month, splattering bugs on their vehicles and eliminating important members of the food chain, according to a study released this week.

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Since nothing spreads faster amongst the perpetually aggrieved classes than new bad ideas, I'll leave it to you to guess where this is headed.

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Biologists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands enlisted the help of 250 drivers for a "splash teller" study. Each motorist had to wipe his or her car license plate clean then tot up the bug body count at the end of their drive.

"They are by far the richest species groups in all countries, and therefore play an essential role in the food chain," biologist Arnold van Vliet, one of a team working on the project, told Reuters.

"Many birds such as swallows, who hunt for insects, depend on insect density. If insect numbers are low they inevitably face severe problems finding food for their young," he said.

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Rodger the Real King of France 7/14/2011 08:20:00 AM 12 Comments

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12 comments:

Jess said...: I'm thinking they can take the salaries of the bioligists to buy food for the birds....problem solved
Meanwhile, the bioligists can spend their days scraping bird crap off windshields.; 7/14/11, 10:36 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I think the problem with these biologists is that others will seize upon their data to promote a new control movement. Only when government grant money is introduced will some biologists see advantage in finding the "right results" and become complicit. The climate change model, exactly.; 7/14/11, 10:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Maybe I've lived too long, but I see the next step being a curtailment of our driving rights during peak insect travel times, or a dramatic redesign of the automobile (all forms) to shrink the flat plate area so as to save insect lives.
Of course, that would require that the rich pay more taxes to fund the effort, so that's a benefit, too, right?; 7/14/11, 12:13 PM
Anonymous said...: Sorry. That was me.
MichigammeDave; 7/14/11, 12:13 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: you caught on quickly MichigammeDave; 7/14/11, 12:31 PM
Kristophr said...: But they are starving all the wasps that clean dead bugs off of parked cars ...; 7/14/11, 12:44 PM
Anonymous said...: But cars kill birds, too, so it evens out, doesn't it?; 7/14/11, 1:04 PM
Jess said...: Yes. Cars will kill birds. That's the nature of the problem: What is the correct ratio? Do you figure it in tons? Cubic feet? Is there a temperature conversion? How long does it take to study this problem?

I'm guessing there's already a government panel, with nephews, sister-in-laws and the neighbor's kid drawing a salary, while they determine how to spend the money they don't have.....yet.; 7/14/11, 1:36 PM
Anonymous said...: see also: AGENDA 21; 7/14/11, 2:16 PM
Cheesy said...: I've seen birds perched on a truck bumper eating dead bugs off the grill like it was a buffet line. Nature tends to work things out, with or without human interference.; 7/14/11, 3:54 PM
Anonymous said...: I guess their assumption is that all the bugs are concentrated in the path the license plate takes from A to B.
OTOH, if we assume uniform bug density over all the landscape, then there are far too many bugs and we better get bigger license plates.
Elect me tsar for a week and I'll fix this kind of stuff, toot sweet.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 7/14/11, 6:33 PM
lil bro said...: The odds are good that U.S. taxpayers paid for this study.; 7/14/11, 6:52 PM

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Nurse - Insect wing. Stat!

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