Posted on 08/30/2009 12:10:25 PM PDT by kellynla
There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
(Excerpt) Read more at denisdutton.com ...
According to all the stories from back then...I should’ve been cooking my neighbors in a stew pot by now.
Food supplies worldwide are declining.
Picking the weather a decade in advance is not a precision science no matter what Algore may have told you.
Only a half of a billion dollars? That's what Charlie Rangel would call "chump change." Especially in these times of BIG, BIG government spending.
The article says one of the solutions proposed is melting arctic ice caps by covering them in soot. I bet these claims were made by liberals too.
The climate is always changing. It warms, it cools, it gets drier, then wetter, people adapt.
half a billion dollars is one eighth of the amount given to ACORN this year!
I wonder if people will ever wake up. H.L. Mencken Said it best:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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