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
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…