100,000 bats fall from Australian skies due to heat wave
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Yeah, I guess so. Trying to pin a weather event on global warming is like trying to point to which cigarette gave you cancer.
Because the media will always find some fool or other who to speak for/against global warming for every weather event that makes the news.
It's worth noting that prior to global warming becoming a household word, weather (and other natural events) dominated headlines year after year. The year's big stories have always included hurricanes, earthquakes, heat waves, cold snaps, blizzards, tornadoes, tsunamis and typhoons.
To continue the analogy, if you smoke you will likely increase your risk of lung cancer. This isn't proven, but it is so evident that only a fool would deny it. But no one points to a certain cigaretee and says "That one gave you cancer." Just that if you keep smoking you're much likelier to die before your time.
I was talking about our winter, not Australia.
And of course the same thing happened then, but far less bats died.
No one's pinning it on global warming.
Possibly. I am not sure I trust the number of 100,000 today nor the number guessed in 1790.
The temp was the same though... were bats a little more adaptable in 1790?