JackHarryBill

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Learnt feeding practices by birds?

When I was a boy in Kent my parents often used to buy a coconut, saw it in half and hang half of it upside down in the garden for the birds. From memory the Blue Tits in particular loved this and could be seen hanging upside down pecking away at the coconut until it [...]

Keeping the birds alive in Haworth

While clearing snow off the car  just as dawn was breaking this morning there was a rapid tick tick tick tick noise coming from a nearby tree. It was a Robin seemingly asking for breakfast. Small birds are particularly affected by cold weather. The Robin sat there as the snow fell adding to a carpet [...]

What do 1.5 million voices sound like? | Oxfam International Blogs

via blogs.oxfam.org
The real voices that need listening to on Climate Change. Listen and weep you sceptic bastards.
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Kevin Grandia: The 30,000 Global Warming Petition Is Easily-Debunked Propaganda

To say that the oft-touted “30,000 Global Warming Petition” project stinks would be the understatement of the year.
I thought it would be timely to once again break down this flawed piece of global warming denier propaganda after it was mentioned last night in Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s interview with US Energy Secretary of Energy, [...]

U.N. Official Says Climate Deal Could Be Put Off

By IAN TALLEY
WASHINGTON — The top United Nations climate negotiator Thursday said a global climate summit in Copenhagen next month could produce an agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, but if the U.S. Congress doesn’t pass climate legislation, a binding international climate deal would be delayed until late 2010.
The comments by Janos Pasztor, director of U.N. [...]

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Scary’ climate message from past

‘Scary’ climate message from past
via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Scary’ climate message from past.
One of the more perplexing things about the whole Climate Change debate is that so few people seem until recently to have wondered where all the crap that we throw into the atmosphere goes.
In the mid ’70s I recall [...]

Another amazing success in our Amazon cattle campaign | Greenpeace UK

Great news arrived in an email this morning about the Amazon from Greenpeace:
In the last few months our campaign to protect the Amazon rainforest has gone from strength to strength. Today I’m writing to share with you the most significant victory yet.
Four of the largest players in the global cattle industry just announced their collective [...]

Sparrowhawk

Much excitement among the smaller birds on the feeder this afternoon as a  Sparrowhawk came to tea. Couldn’t be sure but I think it missed them all. This is the third sighting of a Sparrowhawk in our little garden recently. Twice they have been after birds on the feeder. Always too fast to get any [...]

Global warming cynicism rises in face of stronger evidence – Climate Change, Environment – The Independent

A significant proportion of the population have become more sceptical about climate change and the link with man-made emissions of greenhouse gases despite the fact that the scientific evidence has become stronger.
A survey of public opinion has found that 29 per cent of people believe claims [...]

The RSPB: Birds of prey

The RSPB: Birds of prey.
Help the RSPB stop the killing of Birds of Prey now.
Many years ago I worked on a farm. The farmers around also  did some some Pheasant shooting and employed a game keeper to raise the Pheasants.
He seemed to think that he had the right to kill anything that might just possibly [...]

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