Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Florida: Farmers count losses after third December freeze
"This much cold in December it's unheard of."
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Workers spent the night monitoring the fields and watching to see how long the freezing temperatures would hold. Temperatures dipped to 34 degrees in West Palm Beach and 25 degrees in Fort Pierce overnight, shattering records of 38 degrees set in 1928 and 34 degrees set in 1977, respectively.
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Ryan's father, Rick Roth, said the cold weather the area has seen this December is "totally a one-in-one-hundred year event. People are saying this hasn't happened since the 1930s."
Tucker Carlson - Climate Change - Snow Hoax | Mediaite
Carlson, filling in for Sean Hannity, came out swinging, initially calling the entire climate change theory a “lie” and posing one major question to Rosenberg: “what weather phenomenon would prove global warming isn’t real?” Rosenberg cited several instances of what she called “climate chaos” or “climate extremes” which made global weather shifts increasingly unpredictable, among them “biblical” floods in Pakistan. “Interesting you should mention the word,” Carlson noted as he turned to Horner, calling global warming “a religion, and one with particularly fervent believers.”

Horner only continued to pile on. “Cooler now means warmer,” he quipped, arguing that climate change was now in a “say anything phase that every doomsday cult encounters when the spaceship fails to come as promised.” Rosenberg then tried to shift gears on her argument, pointing out that China and Russia, among other countries around the world, were attempting polities to try to limit the effects of global warming. At this point, after much crosstalk, a tired but amused Carlson ended the segment, hoping “the spaceship lands” as he bid adieu to Rosenberg.
Climate Change: PNAS Paper Shows How American Farmers Adapted to Different Climates Over Time - Ecocentric - TIME.com
Olmstead and Rhode found that between 1839 and 2007, wheat output increased 26-fold in the U.S. and more than 270-fold in Canada—even though the median annual precipitation norm for wheat-growing areas in 2007 was half what it was in 1839, while the average temperature in 2007 was 3.7 C lower.
...Olmstead and Rhode note that even with the predicted high temperatures of 2100, farmers near Edmonton, Alberta and Dickerson, South Dakota will still be dealing with temperatures that will be colder than those faced by eastern wheat growers back in 1839.

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