Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Joe Romm Worried About Global Warming In Colorado | Real Science
As usual, Joe has no idea what he is talking about.

Temperatures have been dropping here at an astonishing rate this millennium. Winters have been cooling at a rate of more than thirty degrees per century. Most of the ski areas (including Aspen) have had all time record snow in the past five years. Fort Collins schools have had more snow days in the past four years than in the thirty prior years combined.
Why are schools promoting this deceitful film? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The film is error-riddled and alarmist, and the work of a prize hypocrite and deceiver who dodges any attempt to hold him to account. Even an otherwise sympathetic British judge says the film contains so many errors that it should not be used in classrooms without a health warning.

But in Australia....
[These people think you're stupid]: Climate change threatens genetic diversity of our potential food supply
The genetic diversity of the plants that we grow and eat could be lost forever due to climate change, threatening future food security, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.

Experts from the Rome-based organization warned that the loss of biodiversity will have a major impact on humankind's ability to feed itself in the future as the global population continues to rise to nine billion by 2050.

"There are thousands of wild crop relatives that ... hold genetic secrets that enable them to resist heat, droughts, salinity, floods and pests," FAO director general Jacques Diouf was quoted in the report as saying.

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