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November 28, 2005

Global Climate Update

here are ominous signs that the Earth?s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production? with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas ? parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia ? where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree ? a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

That's right. In 1975 there was massive evidence "that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with".

Here's another paragraph from the article:

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

Yep. The latest studies show that all previous studies were wrong.

Let's face the real truth here. The Coming Ice Age did not terrify people enough. It wasn't enough to get those "research funds" flowing to the researchers. It's no surprise then that when the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 and the Soviet threat diminished dramatically, thereby jeopardizing weapons research funds, that some other scare tactic, one that was not political, had to be invented.

Hello Global Warming!

Never mind that the sea level is NOT rising. That the number of glaciers is actually INCREASING in many areas around the world. That the snow pack in Antartica is INCREASING. People don't really take time to review the science.

Scare them and they will send you money. For more research.

Posted by witnit at November 28, 2005 10:14 AM

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