© Colin BradshawCorncrake
You fly in from Michigan, from North Carolina, from Minnesota. You ditch work and rent a car, rumble in from Manhattan against the crosstown traffic. You drive three hours to what feels like the edge of the world, November's first deep chill sweeping in off the sea, and say, "I would have driven six to see it."
"It only took me 58 years to see this bird," said Paul Desjardins, who came from Connecticut. "I never thought I'd see it."
Not since 1963 has a Corn Crake been documented in New York State, when one was shot in a remote rye field. Before that, the last record came from Grover Cleveland's first presidency, in 1888. That's two Corn Crakes in the past 129 years—until Ken and Sue Fuestal spotted one foraging on the side of a shoulder-less highway on Long Island, just east of New York City, on November 7.
Comment: A reader comments:
I have been doggedly explaining to them for a decade now, that non-dipole magnetic shifts at the core mantle boundary are the cause of this melting and climate change. We are heading towards a full reversal (always going towards or away from one, but now quite close. As a result of the last one, the icecap in Antarctica melted totally, seas rose 50 metres. Might be awkward, but cutting down smoking won't help)
The antique mantle plume yarn has some merit, but there is no effective material flow upwards in the mantle. That is about four orders of magnitude too slow. At least. The geomagnetic shift, gravity shift, eustatics and geodetics maps plus the seismic tomography, all match, while the lower troposphere CO2 maps don't, but show most CO2 is from the deep oceans, and also, oddly, from the deep sedimentary basins.
AGW is not a conspiracy, just the new world religion. It results from almost all climate scientists being geomagnetic illiterates, and also, they can't read multilayered time-series contour map shifts. It is an obscure set of skills.