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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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