Catastrophising Summer–The Birds

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

It’s the Telegraph’s turn to catastrophise summer!

h/t Ian Magness

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2023/07/04/britains-new-species-night-heron/

As Ian points out, night herons have been a common sight for years in Britain.

For instance, Coward’s 1926 bird book has this listing:

Then there’s Witherby 1945:

Adam Hart is yet another of the young breed of journalists who would rather just write stuff because it fits their worldview, rather than actually do a bit of research.

This is clearly shown when he repeats the tired old lie that puffins are dying out because of climate change. A bit of research would have told him that puffins are actually thriving off the Pembrokeshire coast, and are only in decline elsewhere because of industrial sand eel fishing in the North Sea.

I wonder what Christopher Booker would have made of this latest puerile rubbish!