For the Next Act in the Great Chinese Climate Hoax: Giant Hordes of Wasps
Those crafty Chinese climate hoaxsters may never stop finding sophisticated ways to screw up the world. From The New York Times:
Charles Ray, an entomologist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, drove to Mr. Barron’s home and confirmed the colony was a “super nest” - one that survives into a second year. He told Mr. Barron there were probably 15,000 to 18,000 wasps in the smokehouse...Warmer winters contribute to these nests, Mr. Ray said. Most yellow jackets don’t survive the cold months because they freeze to death or have trouble finding food. They need a fair amount of sugar and carbohydrates, he said.
“The queens are the only ones who have an antifreeze compound in their blood,” Mr. Ray said. “So normally, a surviving queen will have to start a colony from scratch in the spring. With our climate becoming warmer, there might be multiple surviving queens producing more than 20,000 eggs each.”...“Sometimes you just walk out there and they won’t do anything, but the next time you leave as fast as you can because they’re out there stinging,” Mr. Barron said. “They’re really dangerous and not predictable at all.”
We should at least have a national referendum on whether or not we want our children and grandchildren to grow up in a Roger Corman movie.
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