Posted on 12/30/2004 9:19:44 AM PST by bedolido
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.
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Yup. "The Coming Ice Age". Blamed on pollution.
We need to bring back CFC's, DDT, Elvis and build a few hundre nuclear reactors to provide heat.
whatever the problem is, more money is the solution.
There are no gumint programs that are failures, they're just under-funded.
Oh, and let's burn a LOT more coal.
bump
ICE ICE BABY
When a steady application of acid rain is applied to glacial formations, a resultant exothermic reaction occurs which is greatly enhanced by Hydrofluorocarbonic emissions and exhaust fumes from certain strains of SUV's which are in excess of 5000 pounds curb weight, causing mass hysteria amongst certain indigenous peoples with concommitant desires to undergo multiple body piercings and tattoo applications and the wearing of hip-hugger jeans on members of the female sex which makes them look like burst open cans of biscuits, said cause of all this dates back to late 1960's and early 1970's when certain individuals of more affluent parents were permitted to join the National Guard and repeatedly miss formations and were thus termed AWOL in numerous forged but accurate documents of the period.
That's downright scary
I remember reading in THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER magazine in the 1970's how global cooling would cause crops grown in the northern states such as Iowa and Illinois to be the major crops in the South.
i also remember reading a Si-Fi novel in the 1960's about a criminal who planned to divert the Gulf Stream into the artic causing the ice caps to melt and flood most of the world. I can't remember the name of the book.
Heck, I remember as a kid in the 1970's, global cooling was the rage where I rmember reading one article thath ad a picture of New York City covered in ice with the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center look like twin white popsicles standing up. I was talking to my father about climate change and he remember reading about "the coming ice age" in the 1940's and 1950's in magazines like Look, Colliers, and so on.
Climate science has advanced considerably in the last 30 years. Today, both warming and cooling can be blamed on the burning of fossil fuels.
Iben Browning also "predicted" the Great New Madrid Earthquake of around 1999. Caused loons to close the schools over 300 miles away, in areas that it was geologically impossible to be affected by such a quake, even were he to have been right! Fear and ass-covering are wonderful tools. Browning died a few years ago, prediction still unfulfilled.
BTTT!!!!
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