Now Theyre Saying the Dodo Bird Went Extinct Because Climate ChangeBy Melissa Dykes Headline: Climate Change and Island Species: How the Dodo Birds Went Extinct Seriously? How many of you remember learning about the dodo bird in elementary school? Sure, its public school, but still. I remember back in what, third grade? The teacher would tell us about how the dodo bird, having never seen humans before the 1500s and 1600s, never fought back and was hunted to extinction by people who settled on their islands. The birds supposedly couldnt fly and built their nests on the ground, making them pretty easy targets. Its a story thats been told for hundreds of years and is the main reason the name Dodo has become synonymous with dumb. Well, apparently not anymore. Now, along with our endangered polar bears drowning left and right (thank you so much Al Gore), we have outlets trying to pass off the idea that climate change is what killed the dodo. Mind you, the headline is not actually what the article even says. Its a clever semantics game hidden in the last paragraph of the story. The dodo bird was a large flightless bird that once lived on the Mascarene Islands (later re-named Mauritius) of the Indian Ocean. However, the discovery of the three islands in the 1500s, and their colonization in the 1600s, caused dramatic ecological changes that eventually led to the dodo birds extinction. In fact, the last confirmed sighting of a dodo was in 1681 and by the end of the 17th century there were none left. Dramatic ecological changes? You mean like being hunted and eaten into extinction? Gee, thats not exactly the same as climate change, now is it? The sad part is, most people skim the news these days. When this headline pops up in their Google News feed as one of todays top stories, they will see it and probably not even actually take the time to read the story. The headline will just lodge itself in their grey brain matter somewhere and become valid, rewriting history without further thought. Then again, who knows anymore. Everything is so screwed up and the dodo bird has always looked pretty ridiculous anyway. These people are the same ones who cant decide whether Pluto is a planet or if a brontosaurus really exists and were supposed to sit around hanging on their every word about things that happened a really long time ago. As Morpheus said, What is real? How do you define real? (Hopefully not by Google News headlines.) Melissa Dykes (formerly Melton) is a co-founder of TruthstreamMedia.com. She is an experienced researcher, graphic artist and investigative journalist with a passion for liberty and a dedication to truth. Her aim is to expose the New World Order for what it is a prison for the human soul from which we must break free. Need help financially? Why dont you try trading? Earning right in the comfort of your own home. Interested? Google Superior Trading System now. I think the establishment is just trying to see how dumb the public is. They want to see if there is any lie that is so outrageous that it actually wont be believed. The elite hold the public in such utter contempt they are constantly trying to see what they can get away with. This just in: Next President will be elected by the people, not appointed by global elites Doh! You cant make this stuff up. Well, the media can. Thank you for the great reporting as usual from Melissa. Even the lies are lies, think about this, as Melissa accurately points out, the lie itself undermines the global warming argument, given that human caused pollution is the source of global warming, the 1500s precede that phase of human activity. We have reached the beyond absurdity phase of existence. Next headline in the Guardian I predict: Dinosaurs became extinct due to evil white slave owners and 911 was done by Osama bin Ladin Richard Wilcox, Reporting From Tokyo Breaking News: Fukushima disaster caused by Godzilla stomping around Japan Maybe Dodos caused global cooling, and now theyre gone its getting warmer? I think they did that to starve Indians. Earth efficiently regulates GROWTH. it grew us, its 1st experimental art craze, unneccessary. if Earth killed dodos it needed to so growth spurts could happen, maiming and breaking stuff is 1 of our only values to the uNiVerse now. AND YEAH CLIMATE CHANGES CONSTANTLY, JUST LIKE ALL MATTER in the universe change is the only constant is not fortune cookie, its a physics equation for creating growth.we are only species of diminishing returns, until Earth makes US the next fossil fuel, it will refine us. IM IMPRESSED WITH THE FAILSAFES EARTH HAS SHOWN TO HAVE IN PLACE TO WIPE OUT A SPECIES THAT IT TOOK OUT OF THE FOOD CHAIN.i hope Earth takes us out b4 we do. IN A SPECIES WAR IM A TRAITOR 