Of Ice And Science: Curry And Half-Knowledge

This is not the first time an attempt has been made to hastily explain, using dubious methods, why the Antarctic is not cooperating. Steig et al used dubious statistical acrobatics to produce a warming Antarctic graphic, i.e. it is cooperating! Read here.

The following NASA chart made before all this Orwellian history rewriting shows some parts of Antarctica indeed have warmed over the last decades, but most of the continent has cooled.

Scientists Say Global Warming Could Increase Food Production » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

A team of scientists at Rothamsted, the UK’s largest agricultural research centre, suggests that extra carbon dioxide in the air from global warming, along with better fertilisers and chemicals to protect arable crops, could hugely increase yields and reduce water consumption. “Plant breeders will probably be able to increase yields considerably in the CO2 enriched environments of the future … There is a large gap between achievable yields and those delivered … but if this is closed then there is good prospect that crop production will increase by about 50% or more by 2050 without extra land”, says the paper by Dr Keith Jaggard et al

A Coal Executive Pushes Back - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

“Some people believe in CO2 so strongly it trumps every other thought that they’ve got, so we wouldn’t expect them to favor coal mining,” Mr. Blankenship said.

Why shouldn't conservatives believe in man-made climate change? – Telegraph Blogs

Despite the Right-wing blogosphere being dominated by sceptics like James Delingpole, there are many conservatives who are prepared to follow the scientific near-consensus. But like I said, I don’t claim to hold a strong opinion, and he knows a lot more than me on this subject. I just hope James is right, and this is part of the natural cycle. If he is, I’ll buy him a pint in 2040; if he’s wrong he can buy me a bucket of water, which presumably in the hellish Lovelockian inferno of tomorrow will be worth more than gold.