The paper projects that global average temperatures under such a scenario could eventually reach as high as between 16C and 25C over a number of centuries. Such temperatures “would eliminate grain production in almost all agricultural regions in the world”, “diminish the stratospheric ozone layer”, and “make much of the planet uninhabitable by humans.”
It is well known that you can’t grow crops in California
Yah, but, the Central Valley doesn’t look like that since FineSwine shut off all the water to pretend to save a useless non commercial fish.
If the temperature won’t cooperate, the Dimms can always shut off the water. If that doesn’t work, they can deny all rights to farming to achieve the prescribed disaster.
Beautiful photo Steve, thanks!
Brings back memories of back in 1984 when I was working on a co-generation facility in San Ardo, Ca – the hills in the background really brought back memories.
Yeah, I never could quite picture in my mind’s eye how a slightly warmer, wetter world would be such a bad thing; but I had those thoughts before Climategate 1.0 where this whole Man-Made Warming catastrophe was shown to be a pseudo-scientific scam perpetrated by a small group of self-centered, delusional leftists with an abiding hatred for humanity.
Really a shame the media decided to bury the story. Makes you wonder. What really is going on?
“What really is going on?”
This is a difficult question, isn’t it? They are now manipulating data about the temperature levels quite openly, as if changing observed data was the new scientific method. Look at what I found in the new letter/report of “climate4you”
(http://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you_June_2013.pdf)
“… The two surface air temperature records, NCDC and GISS, show apparent systematic changes over time. This is exemplified the diagram on the following page showing the changes since May 2008 in the NCDC global surface temperature record for January 1915 and January 2000,
illustrating how the difference between the early and late part of the temperature records gradually is growing by administrative means. “
and concludes:
“… June 2013: By administrative means the July 2013 temperature increase from January 1915 to January 2000 has grown from 0.39 to 0.52C, representing an about 33% increase of the original temperature increase reported in May 2008 …”
They are changing the past data openly now and are not ashamed of that as if they were “gods” that can manipulate reality and force it over the rest of the population. Their description of the oscillation of the Arctic icecap is completely failed as indicated by the following Steve’s thread here
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/arctic-ice-growth-since-1971/
and
http://hidethedecline.eu/pages/posts/arctic-sea-ice-data-collected-by-dmi-1893-1961-259.php
where he concludes that there were possibly two periods of relatively small icecap extension during the WWII years and the beginning of the 60’s, and that
“ … Chryosphere Today do not show 1935 ice area similar to 1996. Instead Chryosphere has added roughly 1,9 mio km2 to the ice area 1935 compared to 1996 (- The size of Greenland is 2,1 mio km2… ).”
to make the present ice extent to look lower in comparison with previous data.
How ridiculous is all this? How can we possibly trust these people?
Hansen must be a genius because only he can understand what he says.
A fair wheat crop in Australia I am not sure what the temp would be but it would be well 25 degrees.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=picture+of+Aust+wheat+harvest&qpvt=picture+of+Aust+wheat+harvest&FORM=IGRE
So no rice will be able to be grown because it is 25 deg C? Hansen is a prize dill!
“[in twenty years {2008}] the West Side Highway [and thus much of Manhattan] will be under water.” -James Hansen, 1988, NASA
Hansen’s an unhinged nutcase.
No wonder NASA let him go.
If such a climate attracts Hollywood types he does have a point.
New Blockbuster Movie – “Diehard 6.0 – Heating the Globe”
Plot summary – a murderous and demented scientist (Guido Hansenovich) has fooled the worlds political leaders into thinking he has an incredibly powerful laser that heats the atmosphere until everyone fries. In reality, he has just changed all the temperature readouts worldwide. John McLane must stop his evil plan.
It’s well known that humans posses no ability to adapt to temperature change, and it’s impossible to grow crops in Florida in the summer.
Hansen has changed his Venus style runaway warming to:
If it’s still runaway then won’t it end up like Venus eventually? Can anyone tell a time on Earth when co2 was higher that 600ppm and we got any of the effects above? Of course not, we are here!
Here is what one commenter at the Guardian has to say: [my bold]