MONARCH WATCH ANNOUNCES BRING BACK THE MONARCHS

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The gloomier the rhetoric, the larger the donations from the gullible.

Jim Taylor

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From: "Paul Cherubini" <monarch at saber.net>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 1:02 AM
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Subject: Re: MONARCH WATCH ANNOUNCES BRING BACK THE MONARCHS

> The track record of the monarch extinction scientists is abysmal:
>
> Most recent example: just 7-8 months ago these scientists were
> making public statements that made it sound like the end of the
> eastern USA monarch migration was imminent:
>
> http://www.aolnews.com/science/article/where-have-all-the-monarch-butterflies-gone/19406875
>
> "A couple of years ago I would have said it was unlikely that
> we'd lose it [the monarch]," Andy Davis said. "But this year
> paints a dire picture."
>
> http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/chipa.jpg
> "Status of the Population - it is not for the weak of heart"
>
> "The reports from Mexico are keeping me up at night."
>
> "my thinking now is that it will take monarchs at least two,
> and perhaps more years to recover"
>
> "all of us are going to have to work especially hard to keep this
> migration going."
>
> But then by late August massive numbers of migrant monarchs
> were observed in the Roundup Ready GMO crop growing areas
> of Minnesota:
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750130
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750241
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750303
> http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1284750334
>
> And by mid-September, a blizzard of monarchs was seen along
> Atlantic coast beaches:
> http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/capemay.jpg
>
> Paul Cherubini
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