Friday, June 17, 2011

Activists don't speak for me
If people want to go around believing in catastrophic global warming and thinking we can "fix" it by running empty buses and using twisty light bulbs, they are perfectly entitled to do so. They can believe in leprechauns too for all I care, but the rest of us shouldn't be expected to finance their delusions, no matter how much money is being made off this ridiculous scam or how many votes go to politicians who pretend to believe in it.
Cuba: Seas to rise more than 30 inches by 2100 - FoxNews.com
Models predict the sea will rise 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) by 2050, and 33.5 inches (85 centimeters) by 2100, Abel Centella, scientific director of the country's Meteorological Institute, was quoted by Communist Party daily Granma as saying.
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International scientific studies have projected sea levels will rise between 30 and 75 inches (190 centimeters) by the end of the century, fed by melting glaciers and ice caps.
Global warming sharply reduces crop output – The Express Tribune
Global warming is not only playing havoc with lives of people but also damaging agriculture badly as a one degree rise in temperature reduces wheat yield by seven per cent and rice production by 10 per cent.
Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Increasing temperatures will take a toll on rice production in Asia: Rogue “Peer Review” Study
Why temperatures thwarting rice production is complete nonsense

FAOSTATS - Global vs. Asian Rice Productivity

Even a cursory glance of the FAO graph should make it evident that all individual country trends are up. This so, even in the case of lowly Cambodia occupying the bottom rung. Simply put, in all Asian countries the predominant trend is that rice yields are all increasing in an environment wherein both temperature and CO2 have been rising in the period the graph depicts. Such a perfect correlation is An Inconvenient Truth, as they really need to ask why rice productivity is rising at all when it is supposed to decline according to the AGW theory. Proved wrong, they now have the cheek to ask why it is not rising fast enough?

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