As we keep being told in Britain, mainly by the BBC, climate change is causing extreme weather around the world which threatens to destroy mankind. We also have the brave student-loan and state pension funded activists of JSO and XR to help remind us of our suicidal plunge into oblivion.
But not so fast. According to the BBC, some primates actually respond well to bad weather:
Macaque monkeys got on better with others in their social groups after a devastating hurricane, according to researchers.
Researchers studied the impacts of a hurricane on a population of Rhesus macaques on an island off Puerto Rico.
Temperatures are often around 40C so shade is a precious resource for macaques, since tree cover is still far below pre-hurricane levels.
Macaques, who are known for being aggressive and competitive, have become more tolerant of one another to get access to scarce shade.
“It’s extremely hot, it’s not just uncomfortable, but actually dangerous for one’s health if you don’t manage to lower your body temperature,” said Dr Camille Testard, a neuroscience research fellow at Harvard.
In 2017 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, killing more than 3,000 people and destroying 63% of the vegetation on Cayo Santiago.
The island is also known as Monkey Island and is home to the macaques studied by the researchers.
The study, which was led by the universities of Pennsylvania and Exeter and published in the journal Science, found that storm damage changed the evolutionary benefits of sharing shade and tolerating others.
“We expected that after the disaster in a more competitive landscape with less shade resources, you would have perhaps more aggression. But actually, that’s really not what we found. We found the opposite pattern,” said Dr Testard.
Using data collected before and after the hurricane, the researchers examined the strength and number of social ties among macaques.
If macaques can find that inner Blitz Spirit as a result of a spot of bad weather, why not Britain too?
We all know how similar human beings are to primates, especially the more social ones. It seems from this remarkable discovery that if climate change can be ramped up several gears in order to have as many hurricanes, typhoons, and other catastrophic events as possible, human beings might also become more cooperative and tolerant of one another. It’s even possible climate activists might rejoin the human race instead of belligerently forcing their opinions on other people and chucking orange paint over national treasures.
Given how fractious, intolerant and divisive Britain has become (and it’s far from alone), the best bet would be for the incoming government to celebrate every extreme weather event as a way to rebuild Broken Britain and recover our Blitz Spirit. We could even Clap For Climate Change on Thursday evenings.
So far the BBC’s climate correspondents haven’t made the connection, but with luck they will.
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… or we could just ask the Luftwaffe to come over and bomb our cities again – that worked well last time encouraging the ‘blitz-spirit’.
Probably cheaper and I would be happy to supply a target list so we would be rid of a lot of tiresome and troublesome individuals too.
I drove through Slough the other day, for the first time. Not exactly charming. It has an ice rink, maybe we could save that (although it’s a corrugated steel box).
Drop one on Westminster & Whitehall, tell Andrew Bridgen & Chris Chope to take a hike that day. Maybe there is a handful more but you could probably count them on one hand.
The fact that climate change is not happening kind of puts a dampener on this wishful thinking.
The fact that climate change is normal is not a problem, and as the article observes, some benefit from it. However “Climate Change™” which is on sale as a new problem is a scam.
No, no! Climate Change™ is not a problem. It’s an opportunity! All those Green jobs just waiting to employ the otherwise unemployable. You know, the guy who checks the records of the companies which install insulation in all the houses and the guy who checks his timesheets.
And the guys who come to strip out the insulation because of damp walls.
Labour are looking at setting the 2030 goals back to 2030. We are in for a ruff ride.
Only until 2030 when the insanity of their position will be exposed for all to see.
It is the increased rainfall due to climate change that is causing the damp.
A quick look at real world data will reveal there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of weather events ,no increase in wild fires and no increase in the rate of sea level rise. So why are being told by mainstream media that these things are all getting worse? This is the question that everyone needs to answer. The general public must answer it to find out why their standard of living is to be lowered, their ability to heat their homes with fantastic gas central heating, why their perfectly good petrol car is to be scrapped, why they cannot be eating meat and other foods that cause carbon emissions etc. But King Charles, Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough, the EU, the UN, the Pope, Leonardo Di Caprio and all the other pretend to save the planet people must also answer it and explain why they are feeding us with a crock of sh..t masquerading as science.
PS Macaques and all other creatures like it warmer, not colder, which is why life thrives in the tropics and why we all retire to Florida and Spain, not to Iceland.
The number of people in the world is increasing, so climate change per capita must be coming down.
See, I can do statistics just like Climate Scientists and Covid Statisticians.
So this is why the powers that be are engineering a new European war, to engender the Dunkirk spirit in all those freedom loving Brits, and Albanians, and Vietnamese, and Sudanese, and ………
Is that a group of “climate scientists” in the picture? Or am I insulting gibbons or whatever those things are?
Macaque monkeys got on better with others in their social groups after a devastating hurricane, according to researchers.
Researchers studied the impacts of a hurricane on a population of Rhesus macaques on an island off Puerto Rico.
Hurricanes are not climate change and they are not new. They will strike anywhere in this region as long as the earth keeps spinning.
The Modern Warming cycle peaked about 12 years ago, we are now on the downward slope to a much colder world. The Solar cycles cannot be stopped.
In the ancient past, people lived in underground communities, hewn from rock. I wonder why they went to such trouble? The Sun has the answer.