MoJo: What Did Monsanto Show Bill Nye to Make Him Fall "in Love" With GMOs?

[ND-Dem]

22. first i want to make sure that that is indeed you argument. as for your pirate chart, it's

laughable.

there's no known mechanism that links pirates and temperature causally; unlike the proposed causal link between round-up and declining milkweed and other plant life affecting monarchs.


Tracking the Causes of Sharp
Decline of the Monarch Butterfly

A new census found this winter’s population of North American monarch butterflies in Mexico was at the lowest level ever measured. Insect ecologist Orley Taylor talks to Yale Environment 360 about how the planting of genetically modified crops and the resulting use of herbicides has contributed to the monarchs’ decline.

University of Kansas insect ecologist Orley R. “Chip” Taylor has been observing the fragile populations of monarch butterflies for decades, but he says he has never been more concerned about their future.

Monarchs are beloved for their spectacular migration across Canada and the United States to overwintering sites in central Mexico — and back again. But a new census taken at the monarchs’ wintering grounds found their population had declined 59 percent over the previous year and was at the lowest level ever measured.

In an interview with Yale Environment 360 contributor Richard Conniff, Taylor — founder and director of Monarch Watch, a conservation and outreach program — talked about the factors that have led to the sharp drop in the monarch population. Among them, Taylor said, is the increased planting of genetically modified corn in the U.S. Midwest, which has led to greater use of herbicides, which in turn kills the milkweed that is a prime food source for the butterflies.

“What we’re seeing here in the United States,” he said, “is a very precipitous decline of monarchs that’s coincident with the adoption of Roundup-ready corn and soybeans.”


http://e360.yale.edu/feature/tracking_the_causes_of_sharp__decline_of_the_monarch_butterfly/2634/


It's not flakes making such claims, BTW: and their research has nothing to do with correlations between pirates and global temperatures.

Yale Environment 360 is a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.