Bee-pocalypse and Other Media-Made Disasters

Remember the media hysteria about bees? In 2006, beekeepers began reporting mysteriously large losses to their honeybee hives over the winter. The media swiftly declared a disaster. Time called it a “bee-pocalypse”. Government must DO SOMETHING to stop this or bees will become extinct! The only thing missing was an international meeting in Paris to establish a Bee-cord. If you guessed that the media attributed the imagined bee-pocalypse to global warming, you'd be correct. Right up there with the myth about polar bear populations dwindling).

 Data thanks to Mark Perry at AEI