Sunday, October 11, 2009

How will climate change affect Britain's crops? | Life and style | The Observer
Far from the failed harvests, droughts and floods of Asia, Mark Diacono is expecting some good to come of climate change. On his 17-hectare farm beside the Otter river in north Devon, he is experimenting with the crops that might provide a living for farmers in the warmer, wetter Britain of the near future. So far the only thing he has really harvested is TV coverage – it only takes British agriculture, "food security" and climate change to be mentioned together for television news to be on the phone asking if they can send a crew to his orchards.
Orrin Hatch and global warming - Salt Lake Tribune
I recently received a letter from Sen. Orrin Hatch in response to concerns I expressed regarding his opposition to the cap-and-trade proposal. Hatch apparently believes that I have been misled by media accounts of the dire consequences of global warming and that I am unaware of the scientific evidence underlying his opposition.

He notes that, "... I have serious concerns with any legislation that proposes a cap-and-trade system to reduce human carbon emissions, and I question whether controlling human activity can have any influence on the climate. I believe it is important to look at the scientific basis for climate change."
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I don't know the actual source of Hatch's argument, but the model he ascribes to is identical to that proffered in Joanne Nova's Skeptic's Handbook , a well-debunked publication aimed at a right-wing audience.
Baseball Fan’s Urgent Plea: Send Global Warming to Denver!
There you go: Even Jim Tracy’s dogs recognize that global warming is a lot of hot air coming from the mouths of misinformed liberals!
Obama got the Nobel because he's a game changer | Juan Cole - Salon
[US right-wingers] don't believe in climate change or global warming and want us to switch to the dirtiest coal possible, so Al Gore's 2007 prize set them giggling, as well.

Matt Corley explained at the time how Murdochians insisted that Al Gore had no accomplishments worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize and that it should have gone to Gen. Petraeus instead. I admire both men, but by the criteria outlined in Nobel's will, it was Gore who had a claim on the prize.

Barack Obama was given the prize because he is a game changer. Obama has dedicated himself to reducing and ultimately scrapping the nuclear arsenals that threaten the world with nuclear winter or a destruction of the ozone layer; either event would be catastrophic for human beings' existence on the planet.

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