OMG, how could that have possibly happened?
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Posted on 06/28/2022 5:42:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — At her home in Rockford, Illinois, Rita Davisson said the “one or two” mice she normally sees during the waning winter months “have turned into more like 10 or 15” in the last couple years, and scientists say the warmer weather might have something to do with it.
The 66-year-old said the influx prompted her to contract a pest control service for the first time in the more than 30 years she’s lived in her house.
Researchers say warming temperatures and milder winters have increased the population of the white-footed mouse, the most abundant small rodent found throughout much of the eastern U.S. and Canada, making more work for pest control experts.
While the mouse population typically decreases during long winters, warmer winters fueled by climate change mean fewer mice die before spring, said Christian Floyd, a wildlife biologist at the University of Rhode Island.
Experts also warn of even greater public health implications, given that white-footed mice are natural reservoirs for Lyme disease bacteria, which can then infect ticks that are capable of transmitting Lyme disease to people.
“We’re going to need more research to understand better where and how fast (the mice) are moving,” he said. “We’ll also need to learn more about how wetter conditions from climate change could also play a role. There’s a lot more to learn.”
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Mice and rats are going to be a delicacy by the time Jo Jo and Camela leave office. A real diner’s delight.
Climate change means more mice, locusts, ear wax, dandruff, flatulence, herpes, acne...you name it.
We should release millions of snakes everywhere.
Later we release millions of mongoose.
Last we release the Appalachian people to hunt mongoose…
“We’re going to need more research to understand better where and how fast (the mice) are moving,” he said.
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Translation: We need more taxpayer funded government grants to study a non-problem which will result in a conclusion we need more grant money.
Ahhh yes. Here is yet another one.
Every few weeks the climate alarmists make a pot porri pick of something random, determine if people really like it or really hate it, and then write up an article declaring that such a thing will increase or be threatened, depending on whether people like it or not.
It’s comical. Someone should catalog these.
It never ever every fails.
People like chocolate, so they write an article saying how cacao is threatened by climate change.
People hate rats, so the write an article about how they will thrive.
As long as most of the mice remain in deep blue hell holes like New York City.
But of course.
Here’s a scientific experiment you can conduct all by yourself. From wherever you are, go 20 miles south to simulate the temperature increase during the past 40 years or so.
See all the mice? No? Well, there you go.
OMG, how could that have possibly happened?
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LOL! I love your list. Heh
This is great! More Nature, More wildlife in our houses!
Who would kill the nice, cuddly white footed mice?
Here’s today’s climate fear porn. Right on schedule.
And just as silly as always.
(Is that enough fear porn to get all Freepers to cover their roof in solar panels?)
Just get a cat. Mine has killed a dozen mice, along with 5 squirrels and a bird. Haven’t seen a mouse in 10 years.
More mice.... Get more cats!!
I’m hitting the pet store and grabbing a breeding pair of Guinea Pigs. Much better eating. ;)
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