We in the media promise to continue to bravely connect these events and hope for an apocalyptic even that will kill us all. It’s just so much more fun that way.

LMAO
i appreciate your candor!

It’s all because of carbon dioxide emissions. Obama should skyrocket our energy bills, necessarily, then give the extra money to whoever he feels has been wronged by Whitey. At a certain point you’ve made enough money anyway!

Ever see M Night Shamalan’s movie “The Event”?

The unusually cold weather is obviously a result of global warming.

heh…heh…heh. I’m sorry but even I can’t say that with a straight face.

Fact: Swiss had dead birds too!

Good post, but you know what else is a real buzzkill (other than this comment) that I’ve learned over the past couple of days? It is estimated that pesticides may be a direct factor in 72m bird deaths across North America every year and that collisions with power lines could be killing as many as 174m annually.

Of course, cats and windows are also major predators.

Oh, and for the record: More than 3m fish died in 51 fish kills on Chesapeake Bay between 1984 and 2003 with environmental factors being named as the culprit, plus others die from what researchers call “delayed (fishing) tournament mortality”.

/servicey seriousness w/ apologies

Many if not all of those supposed “experts” are dead wrong and their explanations are laughable. In fairness they are trying to keep the public from panicking, when the experts themselves have no clue as to what happened. For the fish, without autopsies the cause of death could be many things, but there are too many fish dying in a short time period. The cold weather might explain the Chesapeake Bay incident, but not the drum fish in Arkansas or the fish in Florida. Brazil is near the equator and should be too warm to kill tons and tons of fish. After all they can swim to warmer water in any direction, it’s not like they are penned in with nets, or never before swam into cold water.

The bird events are much more alarming since the cause of death appears to be totally unknown. All of the official explanations offered so far are complete BS(fireworks, stress, lightning, cold weather, hail) and can be easily disproven with an autopsy. As far as I can tell, the birds are dying midair for no good reason, with about a 99% mortality rate. If this event happened to a plane instead of a bird flock, the results could be quite tragic. Explanations such as disease and poison can be eliminated by the fact that the birds died midair in flight. A sick or poisoned bird would not take off, or would land immediately until it felt better…or not… They would be all found dead around a tree somewhere, not scattered out over a mile in a subdivision.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth…” What we need is a Sherlock Holmes of veterinarians.

It could all be coincidence, but at the rate these instances are piling up, maybe not. I agree with Helix that the bird deaths are far more mysterious than the dead fishes.

I really don’t think the apocalypse is gonna kick off in Arkansas. At least I haven’t seen anyone trying to say it’s some sort of terrorism (other than my mother, and she doesn’t count since she also thinks squirrels running across her deck are depositing anthrax on the rails).

It’s so obviously the end of times. Buy gold. Use your gold to buy survival seeds.

@Helix: Preliminary reports are that the Arkansas fish likely died from a virus. (Officials caution that though the disease is probably not transmittable to humans, you shouldn’t eat the carcasses)

As for the Arkansas birds, fireworks seems to me to be the most likely explanation. I know when blackbirds come to my feeder, they’re usually in groups of five or six at the most, so random birds on other holidays wouldn’t be as noticable and what sets this apart is that this time, the fireworks startled a huge flock.

Of course, the Arkansas birds died at night, a time they wouldn’t be flying, but a quick Google produces this abstract about hundreds of 1999 bird deaths in Florida poisoned by regulated pesticides and you’ll see from the end of the second to last paragraph, the “birds were described as ‘falling from the sky’.”

The Real Royal King said:
It’s so obviously the end of times. Buy gold. Use your gold to buy survival seeds.

So misguided. Who wants to live through an apocalypse?

Magister said:
@Helix: Preliminary reports are that the Arkansas fish likely died from a virus. (Officials caution that though the disease is probably not transmittable to humans, you shouldn’t eat the carcasses)

As for the Arkansas birds, fireworks seems to me to be the most likely explanation. I know when blackbirds come to my feeder, they’re usually in groups of five or six at the most, so random birds on other holidays wouldn’t be as noticable and what sets this apart is that this time, the fireworks startled a huge flock.

Of course, the Arkansas birds died at night, a time they wouldn’t be flying, but a quick Google produces this abstract about hundreds of 1999 bird deaths in Florida poisoned by regulated pesticides and you’ll see from the end of the second to last paragraph, the “birds were described as ‘falling from the sky’.”

For the fish, it is quite possible that a combination of factors including cold and disease could kill various populations….but too many fish are dying too rapidly. With the planet’s surface being 3/4 water, a random distribution of fish kills would put most of them so far from shore that ocean predators(sharks etc) would devour the fish bodies and no one would ever know. So think about how many fish would die statistically to have any wash up on shore where people can see them without being eaten first. Unless the predators that eat them are dead too, or are so full they can’t eat any more. I wouldn’t want to be a commericial fisherman right about now.

For the birds, the fireworks cover story is pretty easy to disprove. From my previous post: The rate of bird killl is far too high and the birds are spaced out over a mile. Fireworks would leave detectable traces(black powder on the feathers) and kill the birds in the tree, not up in the air, and not kill all the birds. Only airburst shells would do that, and why is the U.S Army shelling birds with heavy AA anyway, and they still wouldn’t kill enough birds.

Too many birds died(5,000), they would just fly away and land elsewhere. If fireworks were such a great bird killer, they would be used against pigeons and such…The bird’s freezing in the cold night air doesn’t make sense either, since the birds would be flapping their wings and generating body heat. Feathers are very good insulation.

As to the pesticides, the article you mentioned covers endocrine disruptors from pesticides. They are certainly dangerous to wildlife, but a mass spectrometer test will easily pick up these complex organic chemicals in the birds tissues. They wouldn’t kill an entire flock midair though all at once. They certainly do kill birds, just not these birds mentioned in the reports. These chemicals would be expected to kill birds over the course of months depending on the (chronic in this case, not acute) toxicity level in each individual bird, which would vary depending on what each bird ate. Also, not all the birds in the Florida case died.

@Helix: The Arkansas fish were in a river and there’s been so many fish kills on the Chesapeake, if memory serves, I believe Maryland used to fund an office to stay on top of them.

And the theory about the Arkansas birds is that they were strtled by the fireworks, then flew into each other in a frenzy. Blunt-force trauma is the primary cause that I’ve heard mentioned.

Hey, I’ve got it…

Considering that the Arkansas and Louisiana bird kills were pretty much on a straight line, those flying black triangles that dominated UFO lore a few years ago could be making a reappearance and because they’re largely silent except for a low-pitched hum and fly at night, perhaps that’s what scared the birds.

Fact: I blame Al Gore!

It’s not just animals. For the last decade there has been a massive die-off of people in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

CNN had Kirk Cameron on apparently baiting him about his faith. Cooper, you like to travel.
Go talk to AchmanI -need -a- job in IRAN and ask him why he is throwing notes down a well
to the 12th Imam. Now that’s an interview about end times.

@OxyCon : oboma should be hanging from a tree with the rest of the tyrants!!!!

NEXT WEEK: People in a small, isolated midwest town find mysterous hunks of blue that seem to have fallen on the town overnight. Analysy by the town Mayor, C. Little: “The Sky is falling!!!”

The Real Royal King said:
It’s so obviously the end of times. Buy gold. Use your gold to buy survival seeds.

What are survival seeds?