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I find that, sometimes, the things that global warming gets blamed for are ridiculous. I’ve written about some of them in the past: animals have been expanding due to global warming. Sheep have been shrinking due to global warming. And I’m not even sure that there is really such thing as global warming in the first place – at least in the sense that the media wants us to believe.

This, on the other hand, caught my attention not because we’re talking about little things that might or might not be because of global warming, but because we’re talking about some quite big things indeed.

In fact, we’re talking about a change in the Earth’s axis. Yes, apparently both the loss of large quantities of ice, and an increase in sea temperatures is enough to physically move the world. It’s mind-boggling to think about, it really is.

I would never have thought it possible, before.

Nothing can ever happen these days and just be observed or regarded as phenomena – it must happen for a reason. So when sheep start shrinking in Scotland, there must be a reason for it. When you’re searching around for a scapegoat, what better than global warming?

Yes, the sheep are apparently shrinking because of global warming. Now, when it comes to the global warming debate, I tend to favour the arguments that suggest that there isn’t really such thing. It’s true that the media is presenting us with a very one sided argument.

The article is written quite confusedly as well. It argues that the changes are because of climate change – but then describes those changes as one might describe natural selection. And after all, if a small goat survives, and passes on its small genes to further generations, is it not a form of natural selection?

Yes, it seems quite ludicrous to blame shrinking sheep on global warming.