Canada and USA agricultural weather issues and changes in our solar cycles « Watts Up With That?

Using the calibration provided by the climate shift caused by the Solar Cycle 20 to 22 change in solar cycle length, the following shifts in climatic zones, and thus growing conditions, are estimated:

30° N 160 km southward shift
35° N 300 km southward shift
40° N 420 km southward shift

Assuming that two thirds of the productivity increase in mid-western states from 1990 to 2004 was climatically driven, then the productivity decline in this region due to Solar Cycle 24 is expected to be of the order of 30%. The total US agricultural productivity decrease would be less than that at possibly 20%, equating to the export share of US agricultural production.

David Archibald
30th December, 2008

Remove the Golden Egg (CO2) from EPA’s GHG Basket — MasterResource

To make a fair and scientifically just finding, the EPA must consider its Golden Egg on its own merits. If it were forced to do so, the EPA would be faced with a situation in which the benefits of enhanced atmospheric CO2 concentrations quite possibly overcome any negative conseqences.

[Maybe no sane people were available that day] » Paul Hawken’s Commencement Address to the Class of 2009 University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009

Let’s begin with the startling part. Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer- reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, civilization needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.