“Now it’s caterpillar outbreaks caused by global warming“. Anthony Watts is annoyed by an article in The Independent titled “Caterpillar plague on Isle of Wight was caused by climate change, says expert“. Here’s the offensive passage:
In general, these insects are getting worse in this country because the climate is changing and the summers are getting warmer.
Outrageous! Hopefully Anthony’s readers will flood the article comments with truth.
Beth Hale (Daily Mail Online) fills in the missing pieces. She explains Steve Gardner’s expertise: he’s an exterminator. And she gives the explanation (the usual one) for the global warming attribution: The moths have been moving northward.
“Hants Moths” has a distribution map for the Brown-tail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea), moving northward from Britain’s southeast Coast.