On 11 / 12.6.2011 it was snip-snap - a "suspicious" item was cut from the weekend edition of my newspaper. Was the address? My own observations were talking about it. I let lie the article and was sure that "there's what would come." Two weeks later: There you go - the reactions were not long in coming.
What was it? . The assertion that honey bees had overslept the spring of this year, "As this year the first flowers bloom and nature awoke, lacked an animal: The honey bee. You seemed to have missed their spring outing. With climate change we see increasingly drifting apart between temperature and the first flight activity, 'explains the bee expert Jürgen Tautz of the University of Würzburg. "(GA Bonn, 1 page).
The message "bees sleepy spring" was found 14 days ago over the country in all print media, including television took the alleged problem to.
Air releases call me out admittedly Arwohn. Because the alleged man-made climate change is blamed for more and more things along the lines of: The murderer is always the climate. Hunger, poverty, environmental destruction - formerly a wrong, unjust economic system, wars, the large-scale use of agricultural chemicals were once responsible. But those days are gone, the air is the duration culprit - at least we want to make you believe the mainstream media.
The mentioned article reported by the research of a PhD student at the TU Munich about how the bees reacted to supposedly higher spring temperatures. It is "useful to observe colonies year after year in the spring months." So you can later draw conclusions about their behavior in a changing climate. Name of the project: "Air Bee". Today (27/06/2011) So then two letters to the editor, headlined "bees never verschafen" that leave nothing to be desired lacks clarity.
The letter from Dr. Andreas von Bülow expressed as follows:
"With over 20 years experience in beekeeping, I can only disagree with the article: bees sleepy no spring, nor the climatic, as suggested in the report by Anna Martin son. Bees fly from their prey [Home of the Bee] from 12 degrees Celsius, even in winter. If it earlier in the spring is warm and the flower therefore earlier, the bees are inevitably it with.
Crucial to the honey entry remains, however, that the peoples of time, ie the end of January / beginning of February, start building their optimum strength of around 50,000 bees per hive. That was this year, at least in Bonn despite a period of cold nights with frost in March, the case. My peoples were and therefore well prepared in the week before Eastern already bears heavily on the launching bloom. They had slept through anything! Sooner than ever, honey rooms had to be placed. I've never seen so early can throw such a large honey crop like this year. And that will almost double by the end of the season. Optimally, it could not have gone. The bee colony in the Rhineland prepares always on an early spring before, the queens in the Eifel or Hunsrück in will begin later from instinctive experience with, pencils'.
Bees depend on the surrounding air, and they can be in the campaign and the supposedly man-made climate change is very limited, if any, use. "
Alfred Belli Gausen, the next letter to the editor, also expressed Interesting, about the motives of the "air-bees-project":
"Pity the General-Anzeiger brings a negative report on bees, drawing a completely false picture in my view.
A few facts: Both the number of members in the beekeeper club Seven Mountains and the peoples numbers increase steadily. I'm twelve years the peoples of the messages beekeepers association in the National Association. The weather during 2011 was perfect for our honey bees. I have rarely thrown so much honey in the last 25 years.
Our honey bee is optimally adapted well to changing climate, otherwise they would not have survived the transition between glacial and interglacial periods over the last 100,000 years.
The, bee scientists' of the TU Munich is about something else. The EU, the EU wants to increase from 2011 funding for the promotion of beekeeping and the Honigvermaktung from 26 to 32 million euros, 'said a press release. Tap research funds means the game. The beekeepers comes there anyway to nothing of.
Too bad that the General-Anzeiger such as PR goes to the glue and on the front page at Pentecost. "
In a letter on the same subject in Handelsblatt on 06/19/2011 "What a humbug" speaks Manfred Gerber (Federal Environment eV.) and plain text about what the bees actually harms:
"The colonies were very well developed at the right time at the fruit trees and fruit trees in blossom. The swarms were two to three weeks earlier than usual, according to the very warm spring climate 2011th
By early June you could next 40 kilos of honey per colony create three young people without feeding a gram of sugar, which was a record. Why no bees are found more in the orchards, the scientists involved in the study know only too well. For a decade die annually 30% of the colonies of pesticides, especially neonicotinoids by.
Only it must not result in a German research scientist. So you invent outrageous causes and does not even notice how detrimental as scientists of nature and of all humanity so.
Please do not waste all European subsidies for lies and deceit, but promotes beekeeping, as long as enough people are there who have mastered this profession.
I would continue working as professional beekeepers in the current circumstances with bees, I would expect about 15,000 euro loss at 150 colonies per year. And at a pollination of about 75000 euro the coming of the Community to good.
With the current agricultural policy will be the third most pet does not do justice. "
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Tags: beekeeping , bee-air , global warming
Comment on the letter by Alfred Belli Gausen:
(1) The project Air bee is privately funded and is maintained by volunteers. Therefore, exactly 0 Euro issued by public research monies for this project!
(2) The warming we are currently experiencing, proceeds much faster than climate changes in the past. Conclusions on the adaptation of the honey bee on changing climate are thus not directly draw. Where Mr. Belli Gausen has the information that the honey bee is adapted optimally? Is this a guess based from my own experience?
P. Müller "The warming we are currently experiencing, proceeds much faster pace than climate changes of the past" ... you have not noticed that the Global "temperature trend" is more consistent? Yes even falling ?!
Where ever comes this hoax that the "change" we have at the moment, quicker than in climate history ?? This is simply untrue !!!
@ P.Müller to (2)
Where did they get the assurance that the "climate change" is progressing faster than in the past? Is this a guess based on personal experience?
And it would not be called "global warming" or is this part of the propaganda become untenable?
ever thought off which would take earn a lot if there were no bees more? what, monsanto again? bingo!