Shrinking bird? Does GW Really Cause Birds to Become Smaller?

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald on 13 August, 2009, reports that, “CLIMATE change is shrinking Australia’s birds. During the last century, biologists say, some birds decreased in size by almost 4 per cent.” Reports that climate change is causing some kind of far fetched change in something or other are now a daily occurrence in a news media which has abandoned any vestige of due diligence in reporting stories which appear to support the dogma of global warming. Storms, floods, droughts and heat waves well within the  bounds of natural variability over recent centuries are widely attributed to Global Warming and are said to be unprecedented. Even record cold is claimed, although in this case it is rebadged as Climate Change. Utterly unremarkable minor fluctuations in nature that would otherwise pass un-noticed are routinely provided global news attention by merely suggesting a link to GW.