Posted on 10/08/2007 12:16:31 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming
September 24, 2007
This piece is from the Center for American Progress Action Fund's Mic Check Radio. Global Warming Wrecks All the Fun
Say Goodbye to French Wines Wacky temperatures and rain cycles brought on by global warming are threatening something very important: Wine. Scientists believe global warming will “shift viticultural regions toward the poles, cooler coastal zones and higher elevations.” What that means in regular language: Get ready to say bye-bye to French Bordeaux and hello to British champagne. [LA Times]
Say Goodbye to Light and Dry Wines Warmer temperatures mean grapes in California and France develop their sugars too quickly, well before their other flavors. As a result, growers are forced to either a) leave the grapes on the vines longer, which dramatically raises the alcoholic content of the fruit or b) pick the grapes too soon and make overly sweet wine that tastes like jam. [Washington Post]
Say Goodbye to Pinot Noir The reason you adore pinot noir is that it comes from a notoriously temperamental thin-skinned grape that thrives in cool climates. Warmer temperatures are already damaging the pinots from Oregon, “baking away” the grape’s berry flavors. [Bloomberg]
Say Goodbye to Baseball The future of the ash tree—from which all baseball bats are made—is in danger of disappearing, thanks to a combination of killer beetles and global warming. [NY Times]
Say Goodbye to Christmas Trees The Pine Bark Beetle, which feeds on and kills pine trees, used to be held in control by cold winter temperatures. Now the species is thriving and killing off entire forests in British Columbia, unchecked. [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
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They have a very odd idea of what constitutes “progress”.
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
Other References:
Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004:
This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). © (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science
I think I'll go bake a nice doomsday cake.
This is evolution at its best, I dont understand the problem.
Adapt or die!
Say goodbye to your wallet. The Dummies will tax it until it’s empty. All in the name of GW!
damn, I’m just gonna kill myself today...no more reasons to live../sarc
The real cause of the beetle infestation in BC is fire suppression. That used to be “common knowledge” — before GW became the all-purpose culprit. Every now and then, a forest expert will be quoted in the MSM blaming fire suppression -- but, the media prefers quoting GW alarmists. Boreal forests have a natural life-cycle of about 100 years. The trees in infested areas are older than that. If nature had been allowed to take her course, there would have been a mix of very young to very old trees, because of all the fires.
BTW — there’s no danger of Christmas trees disappearing — the next crop of trees is already growing wherever the infested trees have been removed.
You mean, don’t say it....
The Vikings really found grapes in Canada?
Of course back then, we were burning yak poop for fires. Must make things REALLY hot, huh?
Wine was already effected by climate change. It is now too cold to the grapes in Britain that the Romans made their wine from.
Such as you can soon swim when you visit Bar Harbor.
I always love an upbeat article on a Monday morning.
Exactly. Anybody that uses a pine for a Christmas tree should have them eaten by beetles.
Goodbye.
Now, let's burn down a rain forest and put in a 16-lane highway for SUVs.
Al Bore invented the Internet.
Putfile Version (Higher quality)
The moonbats have been voting down the first video "Inconvenient Hypocrisy", be sure to vote it back up to the top of the heap of videos about Al Bore.
Good anti-Global Warming video that picks apart Gore's stupid film.
You know, the first one about wine making moving towards the poles reminds me of something:
Leif Erickson called Greenland, I believe, “Vineland the Good.” A former president of Iceland told me that during an interview with her by yours truly back in 1982.
Now, if that’s true, what’s the big fuss about temperatures warming in Greenland? 1) It was green once -hence the name and 2) they used to make wine there!
Geez.
If Global Warming is only caused by man then why weren’t the Glaciers of the Mid West still a mile deep up until the Industrial Revolution.
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