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As Schmallenberg Virus Ravages Sheep Stocks, Climate Changers Pedal New Equine Fears
by Patrick Henningsen
Global Research Canada, March 3, 2012
This week has seen one of the more shocking reports to emerge so far this year, the discovery of an unexplained bio-plague which is causing birth defects in record numbers in sheep and cattle stocks throughout English farms and in parts of the continent, believed to be linked to the Schmallenberg virus.
The Independent newspaper’s environmental beat writer Michael McCarthy wrote a piece on this topic today, attempting to combine recent animal diseases in Europe to climate change. He grabbed the opportunity to patch together what are clearly two very separate real issues, and bind them with one theoretical one: the Schmallenberg virus in sheep, African horse sickness - and ‘European warming caused by climate change’.
The problem with McCarthy’s article is that the first two are real, but the last one is pure speculation – and out of pure convenience, he’s combined all three as if they one issue. There goes our mainstram media, raising the climate change alarm:
“But scientists are warning that they may be only the first of a considerable number of new infections, including some affecting humans, which are being helped to spread north through Europe by the warming climate.”
Unfortunately, this tired practice of cheap conflation will not benefit humanity any longer.
It is yet another instance where the mainstream media is falling head over heals for climate change, while a very real environmental crisis – the ongoing infusion of GMOs into our now contaminated global food supply chain - is allowed to run completely out of control. And what are the consequences of this?
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1 comment:
Climate change has little to do with humans as it is part of the cyclic changes we are going through - my opinion anyway.
M.
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