Restoring Biodiversity - 10/03/2023

Nobel winner refutes climate change narrative. Hunting wild pheasant in Idaho. And more.

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Nobel Winner Refutes Climate Change Narrative, Points Out Ignored Factor

According to the Nobel laureate quoted below, the models used to predict global warming assume the world’s atmosphere has no clouds. But cloud cover over the oceans – which cover most of the planet –  increases if temperatures rise, offsetting the warming effect of atmospheric carbon many fold.

This massive inaccuracy yields incorrect climate predictions. The Nobel winner continues, “This worry about CO2, the worry about methane, the worry about global warming, is all a total fabrication by shock journalists and/or dishonest politicians.”

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Hunting Wild Pheasant in Idaho

We join Bret Wannacott on private land in Idaho to hunt wild pheasants.

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What We’ve Been Reading

Hunters take to the skies over Big Bend park to kill exotic rival of threatened native bighorn sheep - The aoudad, or Barbary sheep, is native to the mountains of North Africa, but it's taken a shine to Texas, and that's a problem.

One of the areas where the Barbary sheep has established a foothold is Big Bend National Park. The National Park Service will close sections of the park during the first week of October, park officials wrote in a news release, in order to hunt the non-native species, which competes with the native, threatened desert bighorn sheep for resources.

Closures are set to affect the Deadhorse Mountains and surrounding areas, including the Dagger Flat Road and Old Ore Road, officials wrote in the news release. The National Park Service will work with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to use helicopters and staff trained in "aerial shooting operations." - More here →

Grizzly bear attack in Canada's Banff National Park leaves two dead - A grizzly bear attacked and killed two people and their dog in Alberta's Banff National Park, according to Canadian park officials and a friend of the victims.

Parks Canada said in a statement on Saturday night it had received an alert late Friday from a GPS device indicating a bear attack in the Red Deer River Valley west of Ya Ha Tinda Ranch in Banff National Park. More here →

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