One of the elements of this 'new weather' we are seeing this year, is all the animals which are freezing to death in all this. I am talking about in America and worldwide.
I have heard reports that wild game, fish, and birds, which are normally around now, are all gone, dead. And that is not even talking about all the livestock which are dying. This thing is killing off whole groups of animals of all kinds which normally exist through the winter.
Global warming my ass! This is a freaking ice age event!
I would love to punch Al Gore in his hundred-millionaire fat face. He is a liar, a charlatan, a doomsday prophet fraud.
There have historically, always been weather events which killed large numbers of livestock and/or wild animals. It is only in the past few decades we have had the technology (hay harvesting machinery, grain harvests, ability to distribute such to animals in the field) that we have been able to prevent or mitigate such massive die-offs. Oddly enough, oilfield flare pits were a place where animals would congregate near, to keep from having to generate the heat to stay alive, and to cut their caloric losses. The situation is complex, but the fodder for cattle and other livestock, the heated water tanks for livestock are often 'raided' by deer and other critters.
Many of the fish killed off (disappeared) are falling to the expansion of invasive species--many of the game fish where I grew up have been replaced by snakeheads. The death of that fishery and ecosystem started decades ago when the aquatic vegetation in that estuary was wiped out by the introduction of a chemical by the government, because the vegetation was fouling boat props in a couple of places. Within a few years of that, some entire species were wiped out which had been in the ecosystem and of commercial value for centuries.
Silver carp are another such invader, and elsewhere in warmer climates, the exotic snakes which have taken hold are having some effect. It is difficult to get a clear picture of the changes which are occurring, like the demise of the Yellowstone elk herd, because the cause is often the solution to another 'problem' (like "re-"introducing wolves which never lived there) and protections of one animal against the welfare of others lead to ecological imbalances which have deleterious effects.
If those protections or "reintroductions" have been done by people who are adding an element to the ecology that has not existed in the last 100 years, chances are the effects will be "unanticipated" or blamed on anything but the actions of those who did the research justifying the tampering in the first place. In that regard, a shift in climate is the least of nature's problems, and the actions of the humans who claim to be saving nature often end up being the most harmful.
As a rule, not messing around with nature except for managed predation (by humans) seems to be the best policy, it will rebalance on its own if people don't get in there and muck that up. Letting the deer graze at the haystack means more venison in the freezer, so there is balance--more prey for a limited predator.
