John Dee's Climate Normal

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Hottest June kills UK fish and threatens insects
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Hottest June kills UK fish and threatens insects

In this quick response article I check the veracity of the latest BBC headline of the same

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Well there’s the big BBC banner for this penned piece in alchemical white, black and red. Not just alchemical, mind, but aposematic, being a triad of common binary colour combinations found in nature to trigger alarm. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica…

Aposematism, also called aposematic mechanism, biological means by which a dangerous, or noxious, organism advertises its dangerous nature to a potential predator. The predator, having recognized the dangerous organism as an unfavourable prey, thereupon desists from attacking it. Aposematic, or warning, mechanisms have evolved along with protective systems; it is advantageous for the protected organism not to risk the injury that is likely to occur in even a successfully repelled attack by a predator.

…so now you know why climate change and other topics of high political value are sold to us all in red, white, black and yellow: our bodies will invariably go on alert. This must mean the BBC is a ‘dangerous organism’, and I can pers…

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