This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Hot Dogs and Cats on Hot Tin Roofs?
The RSPCA is going to host a one-day conference on 'Climate Change: the Impact on Animal Welfare' on June 2nd. 'Global warming' would certainly have a considerable impact on the lives of 'pets and wildlife' but effects on pets are likely to be the least of our troubles (one could even argue that the western obsession with pets adds to the 'size' of the problems). I know that the organiser's intentions might well to be to get people who wouldn't normally think about climate change to do so by 'empathising' with their pet's plight but the topic does seem a touch contrived. The welfare of farm animals and humans are likely to be substantially impaired by a few degrees elevation in the ambient temperature of Europe (I seem to remember that recent hot summers that were no where near the increases predicted produced a dramatic surge in the deaths of elderly folk in southern France and Greece).
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