The Rivers Deep, The Mountains High
The Critters that Caused the AGW Climate Change Collapse
I am going to tell you a story of how I solved a climate puzzle in Italy that have baffled scientists and experts for years that they exclaimed only took me a single visit.
Being a Batrachologist, Ichthyologist and Herpetologist since I was a child I pretty much was called an expert by the time I was a teenager.
Before I was even able to drive legally I was making discoveries of introduced species I was able to collect and sell to stores I know and my name spread.
At the time and due to my love of these things and wanting to own them but were never available, this included a beautiful species of Newt called the Alpine Newt which was blue with an orange belly and a silver stripe around the eyes, nose and flanks that had black spots. When shown to people they would be dumbstruck at the colours and patterns that still fascinate me today.
I discovered there were colonies in the UK and was called insane for attempting to figure out where they are and collect some.
I was told I would never locate them and even if I had they would have died out many years before.
I did locate and they had not died out and I did this with other species, like the Midwife Toad.
Having already become an expert of many areas of Zoology and worldwide I was eager to travel abroad and see what I could discover.
After several trips many people even form around the world would say “I would love to dtop him in the Amazon Rain-Forest just to see what he would discover” and even the BBC tried this at one point. A publishing house in east Asia also attempted this.
One of the last trips I ever made was to Calabria in south Italy where our car broke down and I ended up spending a night next to a super-volcano and famous volcano, Campi Flegrei and Vesuvius respectively, without a single idea how this would become years later.
Alpine Newts are called what thy are because the like higher elevations in the Alps and prefer much cooler temperatures. Hence why they like the UK.
Now as a child I knew all the sub-species and had seen several, around five or more.
Many years later there was rumours of a new sub-species found in south Italy but due to me being an expert on them since a child this never made any sense.
There were other cool loving subspecies there too different to other and yet not separated by science. One I had stated for thirty years should be separated, called Bombina variegata pachypus, that Italian Biologist Emanuel Biggi based his these on.
I found an article by Biggi in a magazine, got in contact, showed him some photos and blew his mind and he wanted to drag me on a wildlife discover and pub crawl from Genoa to Reggio Di Calabria. Sadly this never happened.
I had already decided that this idea of CO2 warming the planet was nonsense when it was first touted around 1990. To me it was a ludicrous claim, understanding how CO2 worked in nature. In fact I was explaining to Professor Brian Cox on Twitter how CO2 in aquatic environments was already on a knife edge in places that resulted in him blocking me.
Another species was Salamandra salamandra gigliolii and we found the site and see the larval form on the tiniest of streams. We was late but I was curious to see if the adults were diurnal as was claimed because the species was nocturnal.
We also found the Alpine Newt and this was way bigger that its closest sub-species which was hundreds of miles away to the north. This think was double the size too.
So while there I had the long mystery of how a nocturnal animal was suddenly diurnal and the only one of around 40 types. And how this species got there.
I noticed the larvae were pushed for food, even appearing very thin and no real signs of any abundant prey items. In fact the larvae did a curious think of burying themselves down into the silt, which was behaviour I had not witnessed previously.
Then it hit me.
They was moving up the mountain.
I immediately realized that they had been doing this over a long period and was at it long before the Industrial Revolution started.
At some point in the past they also had to be at sea-level on the southern tip of Italy which meant that they must have had a climate similar to the UK at some point.
It was upon returning that I turned to my father at the time one night when it hit me and he sat bolt upright from a lying position when I said “I know why they are diurnal!”.
They resided on the west slopes of a mountain ridge on the east side of a valley that had another ridge to the west very close to the coast.
Now I had not realized at the time but on the west side of the west mountains a mist from the sea would roll up from the Mediterranean and over the peaks. Looking at across the valley I could see that a high level think layer of cloud collected and rolled high across the valley seemingly heading towards the east right or mountains.
Later after returning it was by chance that I had seen a wind blowing from the north across The Alps towards the south and later heard it had rained in Calabria and that is when it hit me.
At a point in time when there was still enough ice on the Alps and enough mist rising from the Mediterranean this cold wind would blow south down the valley and hit the very moist high level air in the early hours of the morning causing precipitation.
The night-time was key here because that would allow the cold air to remain cold enough, long enough to get that far south.
Therefore most of the rain would fall around 4am just prior to sunrise, and as it rose in the east it would not come over the mountain peaks until close to midday.
This was the forest would remain wet until after midday.
Now its not just re-hydration that is key but also the Salamandra’s favourite food, which is slugs and any gardener knows that on wet nights slugs are out in force.
Due to these ‘quirks’ this period had been moved forward a few hours well into daylight.
Several experts then heard that I had a theory to something they had wondered about for 50 years. Many turned up, one a friend of a TV Wildlife guy called Mike Linley, called Brian. Upon hearing my theory his eyes went wide and he exclaimed “That’s it! You did it and it only took you one trip?!”
So what I would put to AGW fanatics claiming to be saving the world’s animals is “How did these species get there in South Italy?” and two I asked claimed to be Biologists, one a lecturer at the University of Texas who claimed to be into animals but was a very distasteful and dishonest human being. Chris Taylor.
None could answer and I spent a whole year putting the question to them.
The answer was a very simple ‘They walked there’ but to do so the sea-level area of the extreme south of Italy, and therefor Sicily too, would be cold enough that it received several feet of snow in winter.
Way colder than the UK has been in recent times.
I had told people for years that this is a cycle that has repeated many times but what made the area key was a Salamandra turning diurnal and the Alpine Newt.
It has been way colder and way hotter than it is today in the very distant past an many periods too. It is how subspecies come about, or one of the main mechanisms.
This mean that along with the fact they have never proven anything with AGW global warming and added to the recent years of record cold and snow that the Industrial Revolution also started no warming.
I stated this was going on for hundreds and possibly thousands of years and are cycles within cycles ith a number of factors.
Milankovitch Cycles of which there are three, solar cycles, volcanic activity, ocean cycles and possibly along with many others the magnetosphere and atmosphere. The latter contracts and expands and the former weakens and strengthens.
I have been telling people this ever since my trip to Italy which happened in 2001 and ever since I have been waiting for the science community to catch up.
But it only ever got worse.
Out anything to people claiming to follow the science and two things become clear.
They are not scientific and lie their backsides off.
They have done this consistently for three years never once acknowledging anything and despite claiming to be scientific would use the argument “Well no one else has said this so cannot be the case” showing they have no idea hoe scientific hypothesis and theory work.
They literally act like unless a bunch of people around a table all raise their hands and agree then its not happening.
Here is a five minute long video where a Marine Geologist states that in 2017 they found many species of plants under the ice in Antarctica from a few thousand years ago that compared to a rain-forest.
Now here is a link to an article, I have spoken many times with one writer from this site who argues with the same people I do on the exact same thread, Kenneth Richard, on a paper that claims that 6,000 years ago the Earth was a lot warmer and the glaciers and polar ice was greatly reduced.
Wonder if he has been thinking about my claims regarding southern Italy and its various species of late?
Forget birds and even fish .. they can fly or swim away.
Look to the small and slow moving species as they do plants for the same reason and they will tell you more then you could possibly imagine.