WEAPONIZED INSECTICIDES
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything.
That’s why a Quartz article from December 2013 is headlined “A new suspect in bee deaths: the US Government”.
As scientists race to pinpoint the cause of the global collapse of honey bee populations that pollinate a third of the world’s crops, environmental groups have indentified one culprit: US authorities who continue to approve pesticides implicated in the apian apocalypse.
Case in point: The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) conditional approval in May of Sulfoxalor, a type of agricultural pesticide known as a neonicotinoid. The European Union has banned neonicotinoids for two years in response to scientific studies linking their use to the sudden death of entire beehives, a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Over the past six years, CCD has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives worth $2 billion. Bee colonies in the US are so decimated that it takes 60% of the nation’s bee population to pollinate a single crop, California almonds. And that’s not just a local problem; California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds.
Now environmental and food safety groups are seeking to overturn the EPA’s green-lighting of neonicotinoids in a series of lawsuits that for the first time invoke the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) to protect the bees. “EPA inadequately considered, or ignored entirely, sulfoxaflor’s harm to pollinators and the significant costs that harm will impose on the agricultural economy, food security, and natural ecosystems,” attorneys for the nonprofit Center for Food Safety and other groups argued in a legal brief filed in December in litigation aiming to revoke the approval of sulfoxaflor.
Another lawsuit filed in March in federal court in northern California by the Center for Food Safety asks a federal judge to overturn the EPA’s approval of two widely-used neonicotonioid pesticides called clothianidin and thiamethoexam.
Both cases argue that the EPA violated the ESA by failing to adequately consider the impact of the pesticides not just on honey bees but on a host of imperiled wildlife listed as threatened or endangered under federal law—from the Ohlone tiger beetle to the Quino checkerspot butterfly.
The ESA could prove a powerful weapon to wield on behalf of the bees. The law prohibits government agencies from taking any actions that could harm a protected species, requiring them to first consult with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). In the bee cases, environmental groups cite government records to show that the EPA did neither. “For at least one neonicotinoid insecticide, FWS scientists are on record stating ‘EPA is ignoring their duties with respect to consulting with FWS,’ ” the lawsuit states.
If the courts agree, approval of the pesticides could be at least temporarily revoked while the EPA consults with the wildlife agency and conducts a scientific study of the pesticides’ potential impact on protected species. The EPA maintains it properly approved the pesticides. But in August, the agency acknowledged the potentially deleterious impact of the pesticides when it said it would restrict the use of some neonicotinoids around bees.
The litigation also puts a human face on the bee story. Several of the plaintiffs are longtime beekeepers who have seen their decades-old businesses collapse alongside their beehives.
Colorado beekeeper Tom Theobald, for instance, is losing as much as 60% of his bee colonies annually to CCD, while a Florida beekeeper, Bill Rhodes, lost 80% his 9,000 beehives one year.”
2013, THE COLDEST YEAR IN HISTORY
In December 2013, Cimate Depot hedged “Least extreme weather years ever?’ 2013 shatters the record for fewest U.S. tornadoes - 15% lower than previous record - 2013 also had the fewest U.S. forest fires since 1984”
As you can see, the’re talking about one, single year: 2013. Well, if that’s true, why does the headline read “weather years”, plural?
That’s to water down the impact of the single year in which the great positive change took place.
It also brings into context the continuous chain of environmental-terrorism operations being executed by the folks in charge in the U.S., and also in Australia. I’m talking about arson-driven forest fires.
The article goes on to say “Much to the chagrin of man-made global warming activists who want to tie every weather event to so called ‘global weirding’, 2013 has turned out to be one of the “least extreme” weather years in U.S. history. ‘Whether you’re talking about tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat or hurricanes, the good news is that weather-related disasters in the US are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels.’”
But, wait, it gets even better:
“Extreme Heat: The number of 100 degree days may ‘turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records’”
Can you see how the statistics documenting the coldest year in 100 years “extreme heat”? Say what you will about them, there’s no quit in these people.
It’s an example of what George Orwell called “Doublethink”.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
From “1984”, by George Orwell, 1949
Essay: Without using “because that’s there”, “El Nino” or “the heat from global warming is hiding in the deep ocean”, describe the precise geophysical mechanisms whereby the hottest year in recorded history could have the lowest number of 100 degree days in recorded history.
The article continues: “Hurricanes: ‘We are currently in the longest period (8 years) since the Civil War Era without a major hurricane strike in the US (i.e., category 3, 4 or 5)’ ( last major hurricane to strike the US was Hurricane Wilma in 2005). The latest data show both tornadoes and now wildfires in dramatic decline.”
Can you see how they used the hand-waving “dramatic decline” to avoid providing specific statistics that would give you insight into the magnitude of the great positive change I’m documenting here? That’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
You know that “dramatic decline” is a negative sentiment, right?
Jeff Miller, Pittsburgh, PA, October 18, 2021
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