Comments on: West Coast Pelicans Mysteriously Dying Off in Droves

By: LEGAZPI1

LEGAZPI1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:07:54 +0000

PELICANS ARE DYING AT AN ALARMING RATE ON THE COSTALEGRE IN MEXICO. IN MELAQUE, JALISCO WE FIND 2-4 NEWLY DEAD EACH DAY

By: ArtWorks

ArtWorks — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:53:40 +0000

I am taking care of an injured American White Pelican. So I have been studding Pelicans. They are fish eaters and very susceptible to poison. 8000 died in 1996 from poison fish. The fish gave them botulism. We are polluting our waters and those that make light of this better wake up. We are headed for some bad times if we don’t change. So it goes for the animals, and bird’s, you can bet humans will soon follow. Just look at the dead zone in Mexico created from human and animal waste and agriculture runoff just to name a few. This is al going into the Mississippi and into the gulf of Mexico. So my guess these pelicans are sick from our pollution. The fish need to be checked for botulism.
We need immediate change from greed to need.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:18:58 +0000

Step two of the “NASA can’t do a blessed thing when they detect solar flares” offtopic thread is obvious:

Develop the things that can be DONE about it. Not an impossible task by far. Even if it means lifting service or de-gridding service momentarily to save the system from its widespread interconnected self.

We can live without half an hour of power if it saves a whole section of the grid from a long outage.

I say this only to boost the stock price of UPS manufacturers.

By: Nth of the 49th

Nth of the 49th — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:57:04 +0000

It’s simple.
Birds can only live so long eating the plastic that floats around before the toxins take effect.

(effect affect durrrr brain explodes)

By: deowll

deowll — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:27:19 +0000

The ocean is full of dangerous crap mostly put there by humans not that mother nature doesn’t have her fair share of natural dangers.

Then you have the issue of 90 of the normal ocean population being missing due to fishing.

I suspect the birds deal with climate shifts. Those tend to break up breeding for a year ot so but the adults can move.

By: Paddy-O

Paddy-O — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:48:41 +0000

# 12 Glenn E. said, “NASA came out with another scare about the possibility of solar flares blacking out the worlds’ power grid.”

If you’re talking about the solar flares of ‘59, then yes, it’ll toast the power grid and any photovoltaic power generation systems in use, if we get flares that large again…

By: Mr Truther

Mr Truther — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:45:50 +0000

Oddly enough For the first time in my life I have seen these birds on our river front in kentucky! For at least the last two summers. I figured they were blew up here from N.O.

By: Glenn E.

Glenn E. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:05:20 +0000

Well I haven’t see any mention of it yet, here at the blog. So I’m posting it on this item, a bit out of topic. But still part of environmental concern.

NASA came out with another scare about the possibility of solar flares blacking out the worlds’ power grid. And so they urged spending billions to strenghten the grid in the US. This sounds to me like NASA is using Enron’s old tricks to get billions for the utilities industry. Or at least FOX News was. NASA also wants millions to build an in-space early warning satellite, to detect the flares. Not that a blessed thing could be done, with a few minutes of warning.

But NASA has been in the “why we need your tax dollars” excuse business. The “Texas sized” meteor scare wore thin, I guess. And they had no practical solution for those anyway. So they’ve moved on from “brimstone” tracking, to “hellfire” tracking. And of course when they get around to re-scaring us about the sun becoming a “red giant”. That will be their “lake of fire” prediction. How very Old Testament NASA can be, for a pack of atheists.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:56:26 +0000

It’s called a “flight of pelicans” not a drove of pelicans. Geez.

By: Glenn E.

Glenn E. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:43:01 +0000

Since the Pelicans are dropping dead on US soil, I’m sure the scientists are just waiting to blame the average US citizen for their deaths. It’s not like they could be suffering from the polution coming from China. Or as Personality says, sludge from Mexico. It may not even be a “man made” problem at all. But you know that’s not going to go over well with the eco-fanatics. They’ll label this as more evidence of G.W., just to keep that con alive, thru a hard winter. I think the people up in Washington State would welcome a little Global Warming right now. And Alaska has had some record low temps lately too. Temps they usually don’t lasting so long.
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By: patromino

patromino — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:59:45 +0000

….bird flu?……

By: chuck

chuck — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:31:01 +0000

The cause of the problem is simple: All the pelicans had AMEX cards and the APR just went up to 46%. They can’t afford the payments, but can’t get a government bail-out, so they’ve committing suicide.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:52:56 +0000

#6–Scott==”I don’t actually hug trees” /// You will if you ever are in one more than 10 feet off the ground. (smile!)

By: Misanthropic Scott

Misanthropic Scott — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:15:06 +0000

#5 – Angel,

Almost good enough to catch me there for a second.

BTW, I do not consider being called a liberal tree-hugger to be an insult, though I don’t actually hug trees.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:00:02 +0000

Those are nothing but liberal, tree-hugging lies threatening the fishermen’s livelihoods just for a handful of birds.

Damn, I’m good at impersonating Republicans.