Here is a clip of Sigourney Weaver poignantly talking about the Texas and Kansas drought which is happening “right now”, and how it is caused by “climate change” and is putting farmers and ranchers out of business. Only problem is. everything she said was untrue and the exact opposite of reality..
There isn’t any drought in Kansas or Texas. Most of Texas is considered “Extremely moist” right now.
Texas is having their second wettest two year period on record.
Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
This is what an actual farm looks like in Texas on July 30, 2016. Green as far as the eye can see.
Kansas is also much wetter than normal, and has been for most of the last 50 years.
Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Farmers in Kansas are having problems because they are growing too much corn.
Grain Market Outlook Newsletter | AgManager.info
Most of the US has been much wetter than normal over the past two years, particularly Texas.
High Plains Regional Climate Center
Things weren’t always this good. This is what Kansas looked like 80 years ago.
Dust Bowl History | Kansas (KS) History | 1935 | 1930s history | Black Sunday, April 14
This is what Texas looked like 80 years ago.
Dust Bowl – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Everything that Sigourney Weaver said in this clip was a complete nonsense. There is no drought in Texas or Kansas. Farmers are not having problems growing crops, and droughts used to be much worse in Texas and Kansas.
Did Sigourney never watch The Wizard of Oz or read The Grapes of Wrath? But then again why would her speech be any different than all the other lies at the convention?
So she’s a pretty good actress. How much did she get paid to say that?
There has been no drought since 2012. This is going to be the 4th straight bumper corn crop. More grain that we know what to do with.
Only one significantly reduced corn crop due to drought since 1988, as opposed to four between 1930 and 1936. 1934 and 1936 by close to 50%!
Of course, alarmists will say it was because straight white male rube farmers ruining the soil, like ten years of on and off very severe drought had nothing to do with it. Right!
NO, No, Andy you have it WRONG!
It was the very low levels of CO2 prior to industrialization of farming and CO2 starvation in plants that cause the 1930s dust bowl. We all know that.
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(Do you think we can get that meme going as a hash tag on twitter.)
The only thing that is “… putting farmers and ranchers out of business.” is the US Government via the Food Safety Modernization Act with all it’s red tape.
I would say this is a twofer. Blame Climate Change for the devastation visited on farmers by the government.
The Guardian did the same in ~2010, when they blamed Climate Change for the suicides in India when it was actually Monsanto and GMO crops.
Farmers were hooked by the hype that GMO cotton would have a far better yield. Then they had to buy not only seed every year instead of using the best saved seed, but herbicides (Round-up) and pesticides. The deaths were often from drinking Monsanto pesticides. (Major hint as to the cause right there.)
https://www.rt.com/news/206787-monsanto-india-farmers-suicides/
The Propaganda media is STILL defending Monsanto BTW.
But the reality is Monsanto official Beaten by farmers in India over Failed GMO Bt Cotton Seeds which again points to the Monsanto con artists not Climate Change.
Mother Jones has a decent article on the subject.
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/09/no-gmos-didnt-create-indias-farmer-suicide-problem
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Note that foul language is OK but logic coupled with facts is not!
One nice thing, we are now finding out just how much censorship of information goes on today.
Sigourney Weaver, like most Hollywood “stars”, has intimate knowledge of Malibu, Aspen, the Hamptons, Nantucket, St. Tropez, and Gstaad.
I’d bet a bunch she’s not been within 500 miles of west Texas or any part of Kansas in the last 20 years (I’m talking lateral distance, not fly-over altitude)
In her profession, she’s paid enormous sums to speak emotional lines written by others
Nuf said
[nonetheless, I love the movie “Dave”, especially Kevin Kline]
As I’ve said before, I live in San Antonio, Tx. We are currently NOT in a drought right now. We had an extremely rainy Spring and then we got heavy rain on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday just this last week. Rain during the Summer here is very uncommon, at least in San Antonio.