[Reality vs bogus models:] Researchers query Tassie frost forecasts - 16/06/2009

Tasmanian researchers say current modelling for climate change isn't properly predicting frost risk.

Dr Steve Wilson, from the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, says Tasmanian crops have been damaged by four severe frosts in the last 10 years.

He says it's happened during the warmest decade in recorded history, so there's some mismatch between the incidence of frost and what the rest of the climate is doing.

"We know that, on average, we get one really damaging frost about every 10 to 15 years in Tasmania," he says.

"People really need to decide: 'OK, do we invest money in protecting against frost damage, or do we decide we've actually chosen the wrong place and should we change enterprises?'."

Long cold spell is to blame for lack of shellfish » News » This Is Guernsey

GUERNSEY fisherman are struggling to make a living after a reduction in crab stocks.

It is thought that this year’s cold spell, which lasted longer than in previous years, might have something to do with the poor amount of shellfish being caught.

Potter Robert Le Noury, who fishes off the west coast of the island, said he was putting down the same amount of pots but was struggling to find any crab.

YouTube - the ownage of Al Gore

update to my open video letter to Al Gore asking him to practice what he preaches, allow a debate before tax payer dollars are thrown away at what is now being challenged as a myth.