Posted on 03/03/2017 10:30:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 03/03/2017 11:07:44 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The lettuce pickers and produce trucks can’t make it past the Rio Grande?
Foodborne illnesses should drop accordingly. Greens account for about a quarter of all food poisoning cases.
“There’s this old adage in climate science that you can’t attribute any one event to human causes,” Overpeck said. “That’s not really true anymore, because now it’s really been established that humans alter the whole global climate system. Anything related to increased warmth in the atmosphere likely has some element of human causation.”
The first half of that sentence is mostly true.
The trick is to link the two, when there is not clear causality. Sure, there is “some element of human causality”. But how much. If I burn oil, the air is heated a little bit. But it is such a tiny, ineffectual amount that the practical effect is negligible.
What he is trying to push is that humans neglibible effects on the climate are “causing” big problems. But that is almost certainly false. It is like saying a flood was caused by a tourist emptying a bottle of water into the Mississippi, or a that a person who lights a campfire in Wisconsin is responsible for tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Probably = not science.
I’m a farmer, there is nothing new with weather causing problems with agriculture, it has happened since the beginning.
“Scientists say the weird weather is probably caused by climate change - which means these sorts of problems are likely to happen again.”
This is nothing more that conjecture without the slightest proof. And that proof doesn’t exist because climate change doesn’t either. At least not in a manner you can detect from one growing season to another.
They are grown but not as i understand how the once where. Our freezes often occur too late in the spring to make them a reliable harvest. But at one time they where reliable.
I agree with your thoughts there.
You know, I live in a very large population center, the greater Los Angeles area. When you’re in it, it’s very impressive. You think, man this is huge.
Then you fly out and from the air you’re sure you’re right with that assessment.
Then you see photos from space and you can barely see it. In the whole of California it isn’t that much. When you compare it to all the open space in the U.S., it’s nothing.
And then you think that water covers what, 75% of the planet?
We’re just too overly impressed with ourselves for our own good.
In the winter when it’s 45 degrees out in Los Angeles, believe it or not, it’s cold outside.
So much for man made global warming.
It’s just pure imagination gone wild.
I believe that we have massive redundancy on the planet.
Should we abuse the environment needlessly? Of course not, but the world isn’t on the verge of a calamity.
Perhaps it’s that we live in an age of over-abundance, and people have too much free time after collecting what they need to survive long term.
If anything, we’re victims of our own success.
Worry warts to the max... (some folks)
If anything, we’re victims of our own success.
Exactly correct. Our society is so rich, we create problems. Unfortunately our created problems can cause real problems (as in a Muslim invasion, or not building the dams necessary for water supply in California).
Then those not responsible pay the price for the problem creators.
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