Climate warning for wool - National Rural News - Wool - General - Farm Weekly

Modelling points to wool enterprise profits/ha at Yass falling to 60 per cent of the 1970-99 average because of climate change's effects on pasture productivity.

But Mr Graham said that by optimising sheep genetics for wool, fertility and other productivity attributes, the models indicate profit/ha could lift to 86 per cent of the reference period.

And by using summer feedlots to take pressure off pastures in tandem with genetic improvement, profit/ha could stand at 107 per cent of the reference period.

Using the same adapatations, wool production at Yass could lift to 113 per cent of the reference period.

Cherry Pie or Baloney Sandwich?- Bastardi

In a piece of defensive journalism from Tom Yulsman of the Boulder Stand challenges the Stand Climate skeptics on record heat: have a nice big slice of cherry pie.  He claims we are cherry picking when sites like Climate Depot ably compile evidence that the world is cooling even as the US has a non winter and record March.  It really frosts advocacy journalists when we have a comeback to their attempt to use extremes of all types and weather elsewhere to counter their attempts to use and extreme event, month or even season to drive home their ideology. NCAR is no objective source anymore thanks to government largesse.

In actual fact we have gone not just a decade without warming, but really no statitistically significant changes have occurred for a full 17 years globally in sharp contrast to IPCC projections. Recall none other than Ben Santer of LLL had said it falsification of AGW needed not a few years, not even a full decade but 17 years of non-warming.  Even with massive still ongoing after climategates manipulation of the data to induce false warming, the data from the site the author recommends (Wood for Trees) does exactly that - falsify man made global warming. The 17 years started in a cold period and ended in a cold period with three El Nino spikes in between. We end the period 0.3C colder than we began.