Increasing temperature, drought, wildfire, and invasive species will accelerate transformation of the landscape.
Impacts of climate change on the landscape of the Southwest are likely to be substantial, threatening biological diversity, protected areas, and ranching and agricultural lands. Temperature increases have made the current drought in the region more severe than the natural droughts of the last several centuries. Record-setting wildfires are resulting from the rising temperatures and related reductions in spring snowpack and soil moisture.
Wow…so much for the the ice free myth
Russian Ships Trapped in 6.5 Feet of Ice
As a Russian icebreaker made its way to reach icebound ships trapped since Friday in the Sea of Okhotsk, two more ships became trapped on Monday.
The first three ships trapped are a fishing vessel, a refrigerated freighter and a scientific research ship, according to The Associated Press.
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/43896/russian-ships-trapped-in-65-fe.asp
It would be good to leave the scientific research vessel trapped in the ice so they can better understand the effects of Global Warming! 😉
as the ice breaker(s) make there way there, if you look out the stern of the ice breaker, you can see the results of global warming.. 🙂
“and a scientific research ship”
I don’t wish them any harm, but I hope they are stuck there until July………….
Oh my!!! Europe is going to explode and I fear this creeping madness will land on our shores.
Europe starts confiscating private pension funds.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/europe-starts-confiscating-private-pension-funds#ixzz1A1U7Ov4e
Our government has already done that…
…they spent our social security money
I read some reports a couple of years ago that the progressives have already introduced legislation (they’ll have to re-introduce it) to seize 401ks and IRAs and then “supplement” your SS check when you retire.
http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2010/08/27/federal-government-moving-to-seize-all-401k-plans/
http://www.infowars.com/government-prepares-to-seize-private-pensions/
great….
SS was supposed to be a money maker for the government when they talked us into it. Figuring people would pay more into SS than they took out.
At the time they invented it, it should have been a major money maker/tax for the government.
It’s always about getting our money..
The wrong kind of people are in Washington. The problem is solvable. Put a different kind of people there.
they have been spending social security on war and debt at least since reagan. maybe longer. it does not matter who is in government.
the government is the chattel property of large banks and corporations.
what is happening in europe and the u.s. is the same thing they have been doing to developing countries for 30 years. they are just now getting to us.
and yes you can kiss your pensions goodbye. if you have been reading the news for the last 30 years you can see it is a simple step by step process, followed in country after country.
for an early globalisation-forced retirement, food and ammo is my suggestion as investment of choice!
Only because the top 2% have enough cash lying around that they don’t need 401ks or IRAs. It is all about emptying the wealth of the middle class into the pockets of the top2percent and making a bigger lower class to become a better source of servants…
“Temperature increases have made the current drought in the region more severe than the natural droughts of the last several centuries.”
So the ‘current’ drought was UNnatural?
Is that muddy water from the heavy rain they just got? I love the look of raging rivers. 🙂
They may be right about increased drought in the Southwest but not because of global warming. Before there was computer modeling and James Hanson, climatologists like Hubert Lamb and Reid Bryson using emperical science found that during cooling times, the monsoon belts in the southwest and elsewhere, tended to move south, actually increasing drought, especially in New Mexico. Also researchers like Betancourt have found that rainfall in the Southwest is highly correlated with the PDO and AMO. The precipitation of the desert Southwest is determined by a complex dance of summer monsoons and winter rain which in turn is controlled by the PDO and AMO. To say the area will have increased drought on the basis of AGW shows profound ignorance of the climates of the past in these areas. For example, the paleoclimate proxies of New Mexico indicate there was increased moisture at the warmest times of the Medieval Warm period. The collapse of the Anasazi correlates well with a time of cooling in Europe around 1150. Its much more complex than the warmistas want to believe.
Thank you for bringing that up! They do seem to get things backwards to prove everything is caused by global warming. There might be a minor problem with their models and I think it is the assumptions used to determine input.
The equation that is used appears to be IF* THEN= warming!
*= wildcard! In other words: anything!
mike you forgot
if warming then *
!
Not bad for what is essentially a desert. let me see if I can predict some too.
Florida is going to get hot and muggy.
NY is going to get cold and snowy.
Bet I am more accurate than the government.