Plastic figures from a nativity scene at St. Paul (AP Photo/The Jamestown Sun, John M. Steiner)
Posted on 01/10/2009 5:12:30 PM PST by Libloather
Unprecedented heat will trigger global food crisis
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Friday's Globe and Mail
January 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM EST
TORONTO — The world faces a “perpetual food crisis” because global warming will likely lead to massive and simultaneous crop failures in many regions, possibly as early as the period from 2040 to 2060, a new study says.
The finding, appearing in the journal Science, is based on climate models that suggest the worst heat waves of the past – such as the one in Europe in 2003 that killed at least 30,000 people – are likely to become the new normal summertime temperatures.
Although the trend to extreme heat becoming the new normal could start in some parts of the world by mid-century, well within the lifetimes of many people now alive, the researchers are confident it will become a global phenomenon between 2080 and 2100.
Rising temperatures will wither crops that are heat-sensitive, including staples such as wheat, possibly cutting yields by 20 per cent to 40 per cent, according to the study, conducted by scientists at two U.S. universities. The impact will not be as pronounced on some crops, such as millet, that are more heat tolerant but not exactly palate pleasers.
**SNIP**
In an interview, Dr. Battisti contended that global warming's effect on agriculture is likely to be a larger threat to humanity than the submerging of coastal cities due to melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
“This is going to unfold in the next 100 years,” he said, “whereas the sea-level changes are going to probably, most likely, unfold over the next 300 to 400 years.”
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Plastic figures from a nativity scene at St. Paul (AP Photo/The Jamestown Sun, John M. Steiner)
King on left to the other guy: “Stop praying for snow!”
They keep moving the goal posts farther out.
Man-made global warming has always been a hoax, but now it's a pathetic joke.
It's amusing to see how desperately the news media clings to it.
Must have borrowed an evolutionist's watch.
Increased CO2 in the atmosphere would fuel big increases in photosynthesis and biomass production, and the heat would upen up vast new areas in Russia and North America for cultivation, a huge boon for agriculture. Wine grapes in Montreal!
As if!
I'm not planning on being in town then, if you know what I mean.
It's kinda tough growing Sauvignon Blanc when the sun doesn't really reach the ground - eh?
I worry about a new ice age a lot more than global warming.
I actually wish that we could increase the temperature of the planet. That might allow us to ward off global cooling.
We can handle a lot of warming much better than even a little cooling.
A waste of bandwith.
I couldn't possibly list all the stupid, unjustified, or impossible assumptions required to reach this conclusion. First, we need to believe in AGW, last we need to believe that global warming would be bad because farmers would mindlessly plant whatever was planted in the same location a hundred years ago even if temperatures and yields show that a different crop would be more profitable, and in between we have more silly hypotheses than I have the patience to list.
So many idiots with so much time to worry about the weather. Losers.
Notice the multiple posts on this issue. As it becomes more and more apparent that the world is cooling, you will see an increasing proliferation of scientific articles on the horrors of the warming that is just around the corner. These fellows are beginning to panic. Their government research grants have been their iron rice bowl, and they are terrified.
Moving the problem out further into the future is also a great idea. If they can sell this bull (and Gore and Obama will buy it, at least) then their own lucrative careers will be long over before their doomsday predictions are proven wrong. As a scientist, I have more respect for a fellow carrying a sign proclaiming “the end is near” if the near end he is predicting is in his own lifetime, so he will have to live with the result.
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
“...Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality...
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
“The climate models used in the study were developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific group that recently won a Nobel Prize for its work on global warming. Dr. Battisti said the strength of these models, which rely on computer simulations to calculate the odds of future climate patterns, is that they’re reasonably accurate in forecasts of average temperatures.”
What does “reasonably accurate” mean, and by what criteria was this purported reasonable accuracy evaluated? On the basis of such computer simulations we are supposed to accept government regulations over every aspect of our daily lives? Insanity!!
Could this guy be a descendant of the fool who predicted in 1900 that future streets would be clogged with 10 feet of horse manure?
UHM..............they can’t predict tomorrow’s weather forecast accurately and expect us to believe they can predict what is going to happen decades from now?
I don’t think so...............
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