No problem - I'll just put up one of these.
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]
(Excerpt) Read more at americanprogress.org ...
‘Say Goodbye to Christmas Trees’
Is there a beetle that eats the aluminum kind like I have?
Does the Sun provide a constant degree of heat/radiation?
Does the Earth's axis of rotation ever change?
Does the Earth's rotation around the Sun ever change?
Could any of these events cause weather change on earth?
That’s a very fancy way to decorate a Festivus pole.
Not long ago, USAToday did an article on the current crop of batting specialists in the MLB. Of the 6 players covered, half had bats made from something other than ash.
Gads I hate liberal, elitist pinheads.
“BTW — there’s no danger of Christmas trees disappearing — the next crop of trees is already growing wherever the infested trees have been removed.”
As well where we live, we are surrounded by thriving Christmas Tree Farms. Not worried in the least.
Alcohol is an offense to Islam. Your wines will be banned soon enough.
That's why I saw a T Rex eating a woolly mammoth on my drive from the cave into work this morning.
Then, the rain band shifted North and the Land of Milk and Honey became dry. There are lots of ruins there now with dry wells. Europe and the Mediterranean area became the breadbasket.
The important thing is, it happened without human cause or intervention. A Lebanese or Babylonian Algore could have done nothing about it.
Rather than using natural climate shift like Columbus used a lunar eclipse, the political screamers could be looking into what we need to do to survive natural changes in Earth’s climate.
My grandma had one of those when I was growing up. First time (of many) I experienced 120V snap when I was screwing around with the lights on the thing, I was about 5 at the time.
Well hell....what’s the sense in living. No more wine and no more hookers? That’s the last thing I want to give up.
I can think of one HUGE one. More habitable land with an arable cliamte in Canada and Russia. I mean those are only two of the LARGEST countries on earth.
Every time people get pi$$ed at Global Warming, tell them to look at a globe. See where all the BIG landmasses are? IN THE NORTH!!!!
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It made it possible for Eric the Red, Leif and the others to set up a colony - that grew to about 30,000 - in Greenland.
Then came, due to Sun spot activity - or less activity, actually - that brought on the Little Ice Age...driving the vikings out of Greenland and devastating crops in Europe, the Europeans then depending largely on above the ground crops.
This caused wide spread famine and even, eventually, the beheading of King Louis and Marie Antoinette...whom they blamed for the famine. (Ironically, the King tried to get them to plant potatoes, a below ground crop that could keep them from starving. They wanted nothing to do with the lowly potato, even after the King showed them, in his public dining practice, that he ate potatoes regularly.
Excerpt from The Telegraph, 2003:
"According to Prof Stott, the evidence also undermines doom-laden predictions about the effect of higher global temperatures. "During the Medieval Warm Period, the world was warmer even than today, and history shows that it was a wonderful period of plenty for everyone."
In contrast, said Prof Stott, severe famines and economic collapse followed the onset of the Little Ice Age around 1300. He said: "When the temperature started to drop, harvests failed and England's vine industry died. It makes one wonder why there is so much fear of warmth."
Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/06/nclim06.xml
The global warming sheeple who follow the hype are like the peasants of revolutionary France - dumber than fence posts.
But the postulations of this article are perfect for giving people a history lesson - We may well be on the cusp of a global warming period - AS WE HAVE BEEN BEFORE, long before SUV's - and it wasn't caused by moose far*s either. It has to do with sun spot activity/inactivity. I vote to send Gore and his lap dogs to the sun to get this worked out.
Someone should remind them that grape vines once grew in Vinland, back when the Vikings were around.
Just add some wheels, and find some spare closet space — and you could have a real time saver too. Like this suggestion for Dilbert’s house:
• Christmas tree storage closet. Fake tree stays decorated, on wheels, all year, ready to come out in December.
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/house_news.html
Historically Britain was a wine producing country up until about the 13th century when global cooling stopped grape growing. Gee, could it be that global warming is just bringing the climate back to where it was before the last cooling cycle?
So I’ll buy wine made in the Dakotas.
I won’t have to buy it from insufferable liberals that way.
Festivus Poles a plenty!
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