Odd, but I would have thought someone would have linked the banking collapse with Global Warming before this.

The truth is, the Canada goose population in NY doesn't migrate, so migration patterns have nothing to do with this incident.

way too much on diesel fuel this year cleaning off my driveway from all this snow. Global warming is responsible for my water pipes expanding and bursting. By the way.. all of those 12 pound birds are absent from Michigan this winter that I have seen. Maybe they knew that global warming was going to be pretty bad this year and they moved further south (New York maybe). I think they would have been better off blaming Bush. It would have made more sense.

Solution to the problem: Extend the goose hunting season and allow shooting from the sky scrapers. 

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Interesting how they reported on a number of other factors in the article, good link...I did find a lengthy report on Bird migration and climate change as added background information. Of course, it will be scuttled as alarmist propaganda by the deniers of Global Warming.

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If only the entire contiental US was covered in massive WIND FARMS!

That means giant rotating blades would slice all those geese before they could fly into the engines of commercial airliners.

Wind Farms = a BIRD HOLOCAUST folks.

"The nature of an ideology is not determined by majority vote—but by logic... The logic of environmentalism leads to a society without technology... even if various environmentalists would deny this." Ayn Rand, 1971

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If people MUST place blame, they should place that blame with the Endangered Species Act as the Canadian Geese which brought down the airliner is listed as a PROTECTED species even though that "endangered" species numbers around 5 MILLION birds.

Had the Canadian Geese NOT been listed as an endangered species, hunters would have been allowed to get rid of the damn things around our airports.  But, no, they are protected, so now their numbers have risen to the extent that they are the BIGGEST airborne threat to our nation's aviation industry.

This is NOT the first time that Canadian Geese have brought down an aircraft.  Most of those "bird strikes' have KILLED people.  It's a miracle that this incident didn't kill everyone on board.

What's more important, people's lives or a well populated species that, for no know reason, is listed as ENDANGERED? I guess the stupid birds are more important, right? 

So: Geese Fly, People DIE!

Take THAT, envronuts!

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

1 extra molecule of CO2 for every 10,000 molecules didn't bring down the US Airways flight but you have to wonder if a $200,000 earmark by Sen. Schumer (D-NY) in 2004 did. Canadian geese were saved from being slaughtered in favor of a humane way of relocating geese in the NY area.

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"While officials use radar and radio collars to track bird populations, habitat destruction and climate change have disrupted migratory patterns"

Are the people at Time Magazine blind?  It is NOT "global warming' that has "disrupted migratory patterns," it is the birds following their migratory instincts and staying where food and water is available, just as they do when there are no humans around.

The Geese that brought down this airliner were NOT migratory in the sense that they were merely "laying over" (no pun intended) on their way to another location.  These birds stay in an area the ENTIRE winter season as long as there is open water available for them and an abundant food source, both of which is found in this particular area and all thanks to the human beings who built the cities they are "visiting."

So much for the "experts" at Time Magazine.

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming and President Bush are reponsible for ALL that ills America and the world, don't you know?

BTW: "Mitigation" simply means to lessen by some unspecificed amount.

I'd think "Wildlife minimization," as it applies to the airspeaces around airports, would be the goal.

But, then, the enviro-wackos would rather see geese migrating than the safety of the humans on airplanes, wouldn't they?

BTW: In yet another reach, where Time connects dots that cannot be, a Time columnist recently panned clean-coal technology to reduce greenhouse gases. The implement? That failure of the sludge pond in Kingston, Tenn.

Thing is, clean-coal technology, as used in the CAGW/GHG context, has NEVER been associated with anything but the emissions out of the stacks of coal-fired power plants.

But, leave it to Time and those of their distorted, Chicken-Little mentality to find cause where none exists or can be attributed.

And they and the eco-religionists wonder why so many people scoff at their arguments?

they do not migrate as much because cities and urban areas provide them with enough food.

No! That can't be the reason. Must be global warming. But then it's also global warming that is the cause of the Hudson river not being all iced over in mid January too, right?

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

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It was nothing as complicasted as that. Just a bunch of dumba$$ liberals preventing the chasing away of birds from the airport.

In 1980 after taking off from JFK on our way to DC, and climbing through 15000 feet, we were hit by Canadian Geese.

One went through our left wing, one went through the fuselage just forward of the left wing, and the third went through the cockpit windsheild.

Naturally, we made an emergency landing back at JFK and no one was hurt (except the geese). I opened the cockpit door to find glass piled up about a foot and a half high up the back of the cockpit wall. Our pilots had glass cuts (none serious) and glass was even in their underware. ( so I was told)

After getting to the gate an unloading passengers, we walked by the front of the aircraft and the front of the cockpit windsheilt and nose was covered in goose blood. A strange sight to say the least.

1980? NO GLOBAL WARMING! Just geese climing to their crusing altitude in an effort to get the hell out of NY air space and down to Miami.

These global warming freeks are CRAZY and just don't know what the hell they are talking about.

Geese do the same thing every year. They mate for life and return to the same place every year to lay their eggs.

They also can weigh as much as 50 pounds. Graceful yet able to take down a Jet if the two should meet.

The EPA, otherwise known as the Environmental Pillaging Agency, would not allow the damn that would have saved New Orleans from Katrina to be built because it would have endangered fish mating habits, so why would we expect them to care about the lives of humans versus Canadian Geese?

 Note: Time to get rid of agencies who care more about fish, animals and birds than humans.

I had to chuckle about birds less likely to hear 2 engines vs. 3 or 4. Headline should read: "Global Warming makes birds deaf!". Should also read "Global Warming Causes Some People to Believe the Crap in this Article"

Another possible cause for at least a portion of the increase may just be MORE STINKIN' PLANES!

  Climate change 

  If global warming was indeed true, one would think there would be LESS canadian geese/plane collisions.

   Canadian geese would be MORE likely to stay in their natural habitat, the sparsely populated Canadian wilderness, longer. And they would not migrate as far in to the more densely populated United States, and stay for shorter periods. 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Canada geese are not Canadians. They do not have citizenship. Also, they are very greasy. Do not baste.

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