No Runny Eggs

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A Tragedy That Surely Could Have Been Averted

by @ 5:00 on May 9, 2008. Filed under Miscellaneous.

The local fish wrapper, The Star and Sickle in Minneapolis is reporting that scores of songbirds were killed in the northern 2/3 of Minnesota over the past few weeks.

They apparently starved to death.

No this wasn’t due to the use of pesticides. It wasn’t due to excessive feral cats. No, the cause was an extended winter that climaxed 10 days ago with 15″ of snow. Bugs did not survive so neither did the birds.

Oh, if only we had kept our incandescent light bulbs and built a few less wind turbines and belched that final snow off our driveways with nasty fossil fuel burning snowblowers, we may have kept the winter to more normal temperatures and even now, we would be hearing the lyrical songs.

Al, Al Gore, have you no compassion for these helpless songbirds? At what temperature will you be satisfied?

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3 Responses to “A Tragedy That Surely Could Have Been Averted”

  1. silent E speaks - Conservatively Speaking from Western Waukesha County » The Goracle: Bird Murderer pinged back on May 9th, 2008 at 7:42 with:

    [...] From Shoebox at No Runny Eggs: [...]

  2. dad29 said on May 9th, 2008 at 9:09:

    Your assessment is hopelessly outdated.

    The problem is CLIMATE CHANGE.

    Repeat until mindless.

  3. Shoebox said on May 9th, 2008 at 9:24:

    Well that’s the problem Dad29, no one’s telling the birds what change is coming next! :)

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