Romm : Global Warming To End Civilization

14 Responses to Romm : Global Warming To End Civilization

1. Erik says:

   January 7, 2011 at 6:52 am

   I like frozen food, it last longer

   Woody Allen: “Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen …”

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2. Edmh says:

   January 7, 2011 at 7:00 am

   Rising world food prices and third world hunger are a direct result of Warmist actions and policies already in place such as forest clearance and particularly farming for bio-fuels

   The Climate Alarmists never cease to predict catastrophes for minor planetary warming: vastly rising sea levels, more extreme weather events, droughts, floods, and so on. However some warming would not be altogether bad for the following reasons:
   • recent (since 8000 BC) warmer periods have always been successful periods of human development, and cooler periods have been times of deprivation and the failure of crops and civilisations.
   • human health improves with warmer times resulting from the surpluses of a more productive agriculture. Deaths from summer heat waves may grab the headlines but winter cold kills far more people throughout the world.
   • agriculture thrives in a warmer climate, with more areas closer to the poles becoming available for cultivation, thus increasing world food supplies.
   • without the predations of mankind itself and left to its own devices, wildlife moves and adapts to the newly available habitats. The more likely causes of extinctions are man’s encroachment on and destruction of wildlife habitats.
   • Past warm periods have lead to increased biodiversity. The warmer tropics provide the environment for maximum biodiversity and the polar regions retain only a limited species mix. The Holocene maximum certainly did not lead to the extinction of polar bears nor probably directly to any other species.

   Far from fearing a modest warming of the climate, from whatever reason, we should probably be much more concerned about the possibility of another Ice Age, even a Little Ice Age. This would radically diminish the world’s ability to support its growing population.

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3. Erik says:

   January 7, 2011 at 7:34 am

   BTW, new research shows that the melting of Greenland’s ice will be unstoppable..

   …It is clear from research that is based on data and model runs from the Danish Meteorological Institute….

   ..A total meltdown of the ice cap will have the world’s oceans to rise with six to seven meters…

   http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnyhederne.tv2.dk%2Farticle.php%2Fid-36343309%3Agr%C3%B8nlands-afsmeltning-ustoppelig.html

   In danish:
   http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-36343309:grønlands-afsmeltning-ustoppelig.html

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   • Jimbo says:

     January 7, 2011 at 1:59 pm

     “…glaciologists reported at the American Geophysical Union meeting that Greenland ice’s Armageddon has come to an end.” [January 2009]
     American Geophysical Union
     http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/323/5913/458a

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4. omnologos says:

   January 7, 2011 at 8:27 am

   anybody with a few mins to spare can find alarmist articles about low food prices pushing farmers into destitution

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   • suyts says:

     January 7, 2011 at 4:11 pm

     lol, yep….. thanks to the warmistas, we’ve record food prices.

     http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/global-food-prices-climb-to-record-on-cereal-sugar-costs-un-agency-says.html

     I wonder how many will starve because of the policies pursued by the alarmists?

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5. TimC says:

   January 7, 2011 at 8:38 am

   Serendipity, surely, to the loonie lefties: covert population control! (Shame about survival of the fittest, though).

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6. MikeTheDenier says:

   January 7, 2011 at 11:41 am

   There’s no inflation for the guvment told me so.

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7. thechuckr says:

   January 7, 2011 at 12:08 pm

   Millions of acres being turned over to growing corn for government-subsidized ethanol are in large part, to blame for rising food proces throught the world. My understanding is that the process of growing corn and turning it into ethanol produces more greenhouse gases than oil or natural gas. Another example of neverending government boondoggles.

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   • Latitude says:

     January 7, 2011 at 1:33 pm

     right on both counts

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8. Sleepalot says:

   January 7, 2011 at 12:33 pm

   What’s the point of having a blog if you’re just going to repeat the alarmists
   message and keep your (better informed) opinions to yourself?

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9. Les Johnson says:

   January 7, 2011 at 2:16 pm

   Food riots have already started.

   Unfortunately, I happen to live in Algeria….

   http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-01/07/c_13680925.htm

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10. Andy Weiss says:

    January 7, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    During the summers of 1930, 1934 and 1936 the price of corn roughly doubled due to extreme heat and drought. The US was actually importing grain, if you can imagine that. So rises in commodity prices due to adverse weather is hardly anything new.

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11. Al Gored says:

    January 7, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    I look forward to the end of Romman civilization.

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