Fruit cultivation has suffered tens of millions of euro damage as a result of severe cold this Winter. Almost all over the Netherlands there is damage. The damage is most severe in Flevoland and North Holland, in the north of the country. Also parts of Utrecht and North Brabant further south have been hit hard. Pears have been especially damaged, but other fruit as well.
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Whether the weather is hot or cold, global warming remains the new climate orthodoxy. Even a terrible winter last year has not shaken Europe’s belief in a coming climate change apocalypse.
Bunge Climate Unit May Cut Staff by End of April, Evans Says | JunkScience.com
Climate Change Capital Ltd may cut staff this month as its new owner, U.S. agriculture and food company Bunge Ltd., seeks to reduce costs after its purchase of the London-based carbon-project developer and adviser.
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If majority of scientists are wrong abt climate change, we spent some extra money, made some extra rules. If cons wrong, everything dies.
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Price Waterhouse Cooper says Europe and North Africa could run on 100% renewable energy by 2050. act.gp/HNnezU via @greenpeace
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Could painting all the world’s roofs white save as much energy annually as taking all cars off the road for 50 years? ow.ly/ag6QF
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A Media Matters analysis finds that news coverage of climate change on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX has dropped significantly since 2009. In 2011, these networks spent more than twice as much time discussing Donald Trump as climate change.
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"If majority of scientists are wrong abt climate change, we spent some extra money, made some extra rules. If cons wrong, everything dies."
This is called Pascal's Wager, a religious argument. It's a black and white fallacy in that all the infinite shades of gray or possibility are completely discounted. The fact that this guy uses it now to justify belief in AGW is more evidence that a valid comparison with religion can be made.
The person tweeting this fallacy doesn't take into account the extreme damage done to the credibility of all scientists, not just those positing the AGW hypothesis, if they're wrong. He also discounts the damage done to people who chose to take the wrong advice and found themselves completely unprepared for a world that may be cooling. If the world warms, what about the possibility that it would be beneficial? In that case, the warmists would be both right about temperatures and wrong about what we should try to do about it - as if there is anything we COULD do about it. What about the economic damage done by the extra rules that keeps our kids in poverty, in poor health, and lacking the education they could have gotten had some warmists not blown their resources on bureaucracy?
We could go on and on with other possibilities he's ignored in order to pare down his argument to just two.
"If majority of scientists are wrong about climate change, we spent some extra money, made some extra rules. If cons wrong, everything dies."
I'm going to join Anonymous and question the above reasonable sounding but dangerously specious tweet. Lesser points is that he assumes a 'majority' of scientists favor the rapidly being discredited AGW position, and as Anonymous hinted, the idea that a little warming would be catastrophic is accepted by few. At worst we'd see a marginal increase in sea level, and a change in the best latitudes for farming. -Nothing- dies.
But the main thing is the tweeter's contention that the cost of following the warmist plan is just "some extra money" and rules. No. It would be a lot of extra money and rules.
Most importantly, the warmist agenda (83% mandated CO2 cuts by 2050 passed the U.S. House) would spell dangerous economic contraction and probable collapse of civilization. No joke. See my harrowing comment on this: http://www.real-science.com/time-team-huddle#comment-73061
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