Posted on 09/14/2009 6:11:00 AM PDT by PROCON
IF THE sinking Maldives aren't enough to galvanise action on climate change, could losing a classic beer do it? Climatologist Martin Mozny of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and colleagues say that the quality of Saaz hops - the delicate variety used to make pilsner lager - has been decreasing in recent years. They say the culprit is climate change in the form of increased air temperature.
Mozny's team used a high-resolution dataset of weather patterns, crop yield and hop quality to estimate the impact of climate change on Saaz hops in the Czech Republic between 1954 and 2006. Best-quality Saaz hops contain about 5 per cent alpha acid, the compound that produces the delicate, bitter taste of pilsners.
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You obviously don’t live in Vegas. The street named Sirius is pronounced Series.
Go figger...
You ping me to this on a MONDAY???
Soon, I’ll be foaming at the mouth.
Hey, wait’ll you see the other topics we’ve got on tap for this week.
Don’t make me draw a line in the sand.
Hmmm. Global temperatures fell from 1954 to 1977, rose from 1978-1996, and have fallen again from 1997-2009. Logic would lead one to conclude that the steady 0.06% a year decrease in acidity, if it exists, is utterly unrelated to fluctuations in global temperatures.
Of course, if logic is your strong point, you are not a believer in Antrhopomorphic Global Warming.
Enough of this nonsense! I will not have have these lefties take my screen name in vain, in support of their schemes.
It is the true story of a courageous Pole and his wife, who used their bombed out zoo in Warsaw to save hundreds of the city's Jews. But what it also does along the way is detail and document the official NAZI position on the environment.
Read the book. You will find Hitler and the ranking NAZI hierarchy would have no trouble with the Green Party's platform. I guarantee you will be shocked, shocked, I tell you, by how familiar the rhetoric will be to you.
Couldn’t have been the millions of other elements in the environment surrounding those hopes? Nope, its exactly global warming and that is FINAL!
:) They must have all that warming because its cold over here!
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