Climate Change and Cockroaches

Venting about the loathsome Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton provided the perfect segue to this ridiculous story from Australia:

Climate change blamed for cockroach migration

Climate change is being blamed for a changing of the guard among Sydney's cockroach population.

Researchers say the most common sub-species in city households was the german cockroach, until it disappeared about seven years ago.

Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum says the Australian house cockroach, methana marginalus, which likes warmer climates, has begun moving in.

"It's most likely to be the...warmer climate," he said.

"They certainly have appeared for many many years just on little spot occurrences where somebody will find this funny little cockroach that's probably come in on their suitcase from a trip up to Queensland.

Perhaps some of my readers from Down Under can let us know whether this was intended to be humorous or if the global warming crowd is as silly down there as they are here.

UPDATE: Speaking of cockroaches, Lerch and The Ketchup Queen are now on the global warming bandwagon (h/t to Babba Zee at LGF).

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts kicked off a 10-city global warming book tour on Monday, promoting a cause whose most high-profile advocate, Democrat Al Gore, also lost a presidential race to George W. Bush.

"This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future" by Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, will be released on March 26.

"As a society, we are sliding dangerously backwards in almost every sector of environmental concern," Kerry said in a statement about the book. "Even caring about the environment has been marginalized in recent years by a calculated assault from special interests.

Yes, we're sliding dangerously backward when a pair of pseudo-intellectuals lecture us subjects they have no knowledge of.

Darling found it "ironic that our last two failed presidential candidates are teaming up on the same issue of global warming."

"If we end up in a situation where -- because of Al Gore's discussions about global warming and because of John Kerry's discussions about global warming -- we get in a situation where we implement solutions that destroy our economy, I would think the American people would not be very happy about that," he said.

Maybe they can feed gin-soaked raisins to displaced cockroaches.