Posted on 02/12/2019 4:12:35 PM PST by rktman
October 2018, scientists Bradford C. Lister and Andres Garcia made a groundbreaking—and potentially terrifying—discovery.
They observed a decline in insect populations in a rain forest in Puerto Rico and determined it was caused by rising temperatures, or global warming.
Because the insects, specially arthropods, comprise more than two-thirds of all land species and are centrally important to life as we know it, global warming represents and even greater risk to humankind and the planet than was previously known.
There was one problem with their study—it was wrong.
Turns out, the authors based their findings on a single weather station in Puerto Rico, which was known to have been unreliable since 1992.
Unaccounted “changes in equipment” are now believed to have been responsible for the abrupt increase in recorded temperatures at the station when, in reality, temperatures at the location have actually decreased in recent years.
(Excerpt) Read more at libertyheadlines.com ...
Oopsie.
SO, if actual temperatures went down, and insect populations actually went down (as they claim!) then “global warming should actually result in more insects! Exactly as predicted and expected by logic.
On the other hand, if actual temperatures went down in that little area they sampled, and insect populations did NOT go down as skeptics believe happen because of the terrible measurement techniques around the one spot around a few trees that the did sample, then .. nothing (no increases, no decreases) happened. Except the government wasted even more money on global warming spending towards global warming goals of propaganda and hype.
insects, animals...whatever BS that blows their glowbull warming skirt, they’ll take it from their collective asses.
Getting to where I don’t know what to believe anymore.
I wouldn’t expect a scientist to lie about something like that. I guess everyone could use extra grants and funding if they can scare some foundation or industry into providing it.
Now I wonder about the Colony Collapse Disorder.
Was that even real? Who benefited?
Someone needs to watch the old 1971 documentary movie -The Hellstrom Chronicle- about insects. As a film critic of the time said...”It makes you want to leave the theater and start stomping bugs!”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067197/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle
The climate change explanation might be a crock, but what about the decline in insect populations? Was that aspect real, or also based on a ridiculously small sampling area? And wouldn’t the hurricane that blasted PR in Sept 2017 effect insect counts...
One only needs to turn on the news to see “the insect populace” has not collapsed. The Leftists are still our there.
Like I said yesterday. Anybody with a shortage of bugs can come to Texas and get all they want. We have an overabundance of them.
Bugs don’t know how hot it is. These two pixies are crazy.
With all the maggots on Capitol Hill, I tend to agree.
bkmk
One single location in Puerto Rico with crap instruments. Who be da judge?
absolutely debunked. There was a fire ant convention in which the decision was made to protest the declaration of their demise by biting even harder. Just to remind us they’re there. They’re everywhere. Bwaaahahahhaa (evil ant laugh).
Cockroaches were here before we arrived and they will be here after we’re gone.
I think our seed ticks are endangered here in Missouri. i need a few volunteer scientists to roll in the grass naked a few hours so we can could the number of ticks on them.
Send anyone who wants to write an article about global warming done here in July for this experiment.
We have met on occasion.
/s
More evidence...
You have a problem with deer flies? ;-)
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