AGW is dead scientifically, but I'm afraid it's still gaining a full head of steam bureaucratically.
Didn’t get the memo:
Wintertime droughts are increasingly common in the Mediterranean region, and human-caused climate change is partly responsible, according to a new analysis by NOAA scientists and colleagues at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). In the last 20 years, 10 of the driest 12 winters have taken place in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
“The magnitude and frequency of the drying that has occurred is too great to be explained by natural variability alone,” said Martin Hoerling, Ph.D. of NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., lead author of a paper published online in the Journal of Climate this month. “This is not encouraging news for a region that already experiences water stress, because it implies natural variability alone is unlikely to return the region’s climate to normal.”
Killer Russian heat wave product of climate change
Crop scientists now fret about heat not just water
Growing a better future (note that this is a PDF)
The food system is buckling under intense pressure from climate change, ecological degradation, population growth, rising energy prices, rising demand for meat and dairy products, and competition for land from biofuels, industry, and urbanization.
The warning signs are clear. Surging and unstable international food prices, growing conflicts over water, the increased exposure of vulnerable populations to drought and floods are all symptoms of a crisis that may soon become permanent: food prices are forecast to increase by something in the range of 70 to 90 per cent by 2030 before the effects of climate change, which will roughly the double price rises again (see Figure 1).
The Revolt Against the Experts Helps Herman Cain
Cornyn Presses For Fast and Furious Probe in Texas
Americans Blame Gov't More Than Wall Street for Economy
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Has anyone ever considered that social and civil unrest can tear apart civilization faster than a changing climate can? There are times when I think the world is full of people who don’t get this concept.