What Environmental Reporting Leaves Out

[AverageJoe90]

8. I'm not at all convinced that climate change is anywhere near the only culprit........

...for what's been happening to the bees. One must wonder how much G.M. crops and other chemical-related issues are causing the problem.

I don't doubt that AGW may be playing a role, but it can't fully explain what's happening to bees, or even the birds for that matter. And given that these creatures have existed even before we first evolved in central Africa several million years ago, they've been thru far worse than this, including several supervolcanic eruptions, which, btw, produced climate change more drastic(albeit just in the other direction), and far more sudden, I might add, than human-induced activities(which, IMO, are doing enough damage as is). So I have absolutely no doubt they'll survive AGW.

However, though, recent findings suggest that viruses and a fungus, Nosema ceranae, may have played a major role in bee declines, at least here in the U.S.:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013181

As for the fungus, is it possible that AGW may have played a role? Yes, it is. To what extent? Nobody quite knows.
From what I can tell it seems that excessive pesticide use has caused more harm overall, than the global warming we've had so far.