Saturday, July 25, 2009

Students give up their summer to fight global warming - EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA
Other students in the group cited various scientists, including James Hansen of NASA, who have warned that humans and other forms of life cannot continue to survive if the percentage of carbon dioxide keeps climbing.

What about those who claim global warming does not pose a threat, that it's all a big hoax?

"Our goal is not to convince the naysayers," Xu said. "Climate change is a threat. Politicians need to see grass-roots support for action."
Policy Peril - Minnesotans For Global Warming
Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself.

An new movie by the Competitive Enterprise Institute
Weather is troubling peach farmers and the fruits of their labor
COSHOCTON -- There's nothing fuzzy about it: Ohio is in for a much smaller peach crop this summer because of an extreme cold snap in January and a cool spring.
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Mike Siegrist of Siegrist Orchard in southwest Coshocton County said the temperature there reached 25 degrees below zero in January, ensuring he wouldn't be harvesting 500 bushels of peaches this year.

"I just finished spraying the trees this week for disease, though," he said. "You still have expense, even if you're not going to have a crop."
Global swine flu death toll swells to 800
WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl warned that the virus is expected to increase this winter in the Northern Hemisphere due to cold weather.

1 comment:

John M Reynolds said...

That last one has nothing to do with AGW. It simply suggests the obvious that as people congregate inside away from cold winter weather, the flu will spread quickly. Of course, we may already be able to see some of this in the southern hrmisphere.

John M Reynolds