Posted on 03/25/2014 4:45:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you’re like me this will send chills down your spine.
Nature Climate Change recently published a paper that contends that temperate zones will see reduced crop yields by 2030, presumably plunging the world into a man-caused famine not seen since the last time communists were in charge.
From Blue and Green Tomorrow:
“As more data have become available, we’ve seen a shift in consensus, telling us that the impacts of climate change in temperate regions will happen sooner rather than later,” said Professor Andy Challinor, lead author of the study.
Yes, any time I see the word “consensus” in the context of the "settled science" of global something I break out into a cold sweat, I hyperventilate and my sight grows dim.
And that should happen to you too.
Because I next wonder: “How much is this going to cost me exactly?”
But then I remember, upon studied reflection, that every time the WeatherNazis come to a consensus about anything they’re as wrong Hitler was in invading Russia without winter clothing.
“Oh, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s gonna be a lot warmer than people think.”
Certainly, it’s a lot warmer for him now.
For the estimated $100 billion annually that we will be spending on “climate change” programs by 2020, I’m thinking that there might be a better way to spend that money, like terraforming Mars for human population or throwing a really big Fourth of July Parade.
These are certainly better ideas than the rationing of electricity, wearing clothes made exclusively of hemp and dating chicks with hairy armpits.
Or driving a Chevy Volt.
But the news gets worse for liberals.
The indoor hemp industry apparently produces the same amount of carbon in the atmosphere as 3 million cars.
“'[I]ndoor Cannabis production uses 1% of the nation’s entire electricity consumption,' reports Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher Evan Mills in the Huffington Post. 'This comes to energy expenditures of $5 billion per year.' While 1% may not seem like a lot, the report claims that smoking one single Cannabis joint is equivalent to running a 100-watt light bulb for 17 hours. That Cannabis cigarette carries two pounds of CO2 emissions."
I don't know what a gram of dope costs these days, but that's a lot of carbon for a gram.
While the doomsday date for the final destruction of mankind due to global warming gets pushed back farther and farther, I’m wondering if any of these WeatherNazis actually understand human history.
It would be wonderful if human activity could warm the planet.
The danger to civilization isn’t a warm planet, but a cold one.
It was only with the retreat of the last Ice Age that the ascendancy of modern man took hold. Without that, we’d all be living in caves, each of us ineligible to be president of the United States because we’d all still live in Kenya.
Instead we live in the house of cards that the president of the United States built—who by the way was born in Hawaii, a place much warmer than most of the globe; and presumably what Montana will be a lot like in the global something future.
Weather does influence culture, but not in the ways the alarmists would have you believe.
A new study by Matthew Ranson—no relation (my relatives know how to spell)—made possible by a fellowship from Harvard, predicts that because of global warming crime will spike, with your daughters unsafe to roam the streets day or night.
“The results show that temperature has a strong positive effect on criminal behavior,” writes Ranson, “with little evidence of lagged impacts. Between 2010 and 2099, climate change will cause an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults, 2.3 million simple assaults, 260,000 robberies, 1.3 million burglaries, 2.2 million cases of larceny, and 580,000 cases of vehicle theft in the United States.”
See and all this time I thought that dinosaurs failed to adapt and thus became extinct.
I never knew it was dino-on-dino crime caused by high global temperatures.
And so reports like these send chills down my spine.
Because believe me: It’ll cost us. One way or another, it’ll cost us.
That’s the liberal way.
Oh, fer Pete’s sake.
Now we’re gonna be raped and murdered if we don’t buy a Volt.
Can we burn hippies for fuel?
Its late March and here in Connecticut it’s 12 degrees. Lets warm the planet as fast as possible. I’d love to grow oranges in my garden. What the hell is the problem with a warmer planet? Why is this an issue?
Lower crop yields in the United States, but higher yields in Canada.
Antiperspirants.
There will be a glowbull shortage of antiperspirants because the aluminum in them will run out.
Settled science.
Science may very well be seeing legitimate data that indicates that global climates are taking a severe turn for the worse.
However, they are pointing their fingers in the wrong direction.... God said that the end of this age would be a time of great famine worldwide.
Science blames man in order to continue it’s refusal to recognize God.
Shifting crops to appropriate climate combined with shifting crops to the climate.
These panic pieces always assume we don’t have technology, knowledge or the benefit of several thousand years worth of experience.
reduced crop yields start now because Obama and the administration cut off half the water to the San Joaquin valley.
Chicken Little has a formal name. It’s Professor Andy Challinor.
Get ‘em out by Friday ping. Thanks Kaslin.
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Here in SW Pennsylvania it was 19 degrees yesterday morning. This has been one hard cold winter!
It’s snowing here is Kentucky right now and my wife is miserable. She is asking, “What happened to spring? Where are the flowers?”
Yeah, we had dormant lawns and stuff showing the past few days, then it snowed yesterday, quietly, all day, dusted everything over. Wind’s loud enough to hear right now, sounds like it’s from the NW.
Well.....
“Shifting crops to appropriate climate combined with shifting crops to the climate.”
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Well, you see, it’s like, uh, well now, I think it’s uh, heck, I don’t have any idea WHAT that sentence means and you normally express yourself clearly so it must be my problem but uh, could you please rephrase that?
Prior to the little ice age Europe grew primarily grains as crops but the climate became colder and wetter which was a disaster for the crops and famine resulted. The people starved till they shifted to crops that grew better in the cold damp climate. Green leafy veggies and certain root crops do well in cooler wetter climates. That would be adjusting your crops to the climate.
During the last ice age the Sahara desert was grassland dotted with lakes. Pretty much ideal for grains. In a long term climate shift the grain production would be moved to places that are the right climate.
However, we grow a lot of things in arid southwestern areas where they wouldn’t grow without large scale irrigation and modification of crops. These stories are always far more panicky than they need to be.
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