David Craig, on May 21st, 2025Wednesday blog
We’re constantly being told that ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Climate Crisis’ or ‘Climate Emergency’ or ‘Global Boiling’ or whatever the BBC calls our weather this month is responsible for decimating our wildlife, expecially our bird populations. Here’s a typical BBC headline: “Climate change ‘has affected a third of UK bird species’. The other culprits for declining bird numbers are, of course, “intensive framing practices, particularly an increase in fertilizer and pesticide use“.
So, as expected, we humans and our modern lifestyles are apparently to blame for destroying nature. This gives yet more reasons for our rulers to impose ‘degrowth’ on us:
But one issue the media and experts never seem keen to mention is the role of cats in wreaking total havoc on our natural environment. A study published b y the University of Reading estimated that UK cats kill 160 to 270 million animals annually, a quarter of them birds. The real figure is likely to be even higher, as the study used the 2011 pet cat population of 9.5 million; it is now closer to 12 million, boosted by the pandemic pet craze.
On average, a British pet cat brings home around five items of prey a year. Researchers estimate this is about 23% of their actual kills, which makes it about 22 kills a year. Multiplied by the number of pet cats, it is clearly a huge number of lives lost. If you compare this with the collective population of native wild predators such as stoats and pine martens, cats “outnumber them something like fivefold”.
Then there is one other unmentionable – Mad Ed MIliband’s wind turdbines. When these actually work (about 30% of the time at most) estimates suggest that between 10,000 and 100,000 birds are killed by wind turbines in the UK each year. These deaths are primarily caused by collisions with turbine blades.
But let’s not mention cats and Mad Ed’s windmills. Let’s just keep on blaming the supposed ‘Climate Crisis’ for wiping out our bird populations.
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We will soon need the cats. Once democracy is suspended for our own safety as it surely will be here if you look at the EU busily banning any non uni-party candidates. Once meat is banned to save the planet and bugs are offered again see EU. Then the EU/UK/Nato drag us into war with Russia and create rampant inflation and steal all the savings and assets of the population to protect the elites and stop the economy from collapsing under the weight of debt, regulation and taxes. At that point starving, penniless and powerless we will need the cats to eat.
Most of our ruling elite seem to be insane, as Paul is effectively saying. I watched Jacob Rees-Mogg discussing energy with a climate zealot last night. Unfortunately JRM has no idea about science and he effectively gives publicity to these people. He never has a scientist to give the balance that GBN always claims.
I don’t know whether you follow Joseph Postma’s work. He reported a few days ago on a discussion he had with an AI system. He focuses on the fact that the climate alarmists assume a flat earth which means all the sun’s energy is equally distributed resulting in an average temperature of -18C compared to the measured average of 15C. The difference then has to come from CO2 as the climate alarmists believe.
The zealots and politicians who don’t seem to understand much have to be called on this. You have definitely played your part with your book.
There are about 48 million voters expecting to select 650 MPs who can solve their problems. The voters are the problem not the MPs.