Environmental extremist, notable politicians among them then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda.
Now their ridicules manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minutes documentary segment.
I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party.
However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in.” It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a nonevent, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won’t believe me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.
Read the rest of John Coleman’s comments about global warming.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
AGW is a religion that is equal parts animism, puritanism and hypocrisy. It is a joyless festival of nihilism. AGW people are not generous of spirit. In the words of the immortal Spiro Agnew, they are nattering nabobs of negativism.
Love this evidence free conspiracy mongering.
“AGW people are not generous of spirit.”
HAHAHA. I bet they eat babies eh David?
I thought Spiro was dead wrong, he shouldnt have taken the bribe.
Look at Archibald – the 5 station cherry picker go – did you ask 5 people to form your opinion mate. What a bullduster. Try comedy – you don’t need real data.
So Luke, you don’t disagree with John Coleman then, because so far all you have dome is vilified those who might disagree with your position.
Coleman was once a humble freshman learning about the weather back in 1953. Top hit back then was ‘Your cheating heart’. About 90 percent of what is known about the weather has been learnt since 1953. In 1953 nobody much (apart from the odd desperate geographer) did climate, the weather guys were cooler -they got extra for shiftwork, and those who could put style ahead of substance got to be on TV. Those were the days. Climate then was what you expected and weather what you got. Climate was stationary and boring. But climate change is what we didnt expect. The value of a Coleman opinion on climate or climate change – gimmeabrake!
Anyone calling food stocks at 39 days of consumption a ‘scam’. I mean it is only down from 120 days of stocks in 1999 … boy oh boy. Is this a pointless debate or what. Who really cares whats causing it or whether it is a scam or not? Lets talk about how we are going to feed ourselves in the future. Urea prices up 20% last week …
“Dastardly”. That settles it, it must be true.
Louis,
what is there to actually agree with? It’s all just opinion and no evidence at all.
Aaron, I can raise your cereal stocks to 57 days but either way can you grow edible babies in that time ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/03/food.climatechange
WJP it was 57 days in 2006 before two of Australia’s worst droughts, a drought in the Ukraine this year, serious floods in the UK, drought in India last year turning it from a net exporter to a net importer of around 7mmt.
See below:
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Published on 15 Jun 2006 by Earth Policy Institute. Archived on 16 Jun 2006.
World Grain Stocks Fall to 57 Days of Consumption: Grain Prices Starting to Rise
by Lester Brown
This year’s world grain harvest is projected to fall short of consumption by 61 million tons, marking the sixth time in the last seven years that production has failed to satisfy demand. As a result of these shortfalls, world carryover stocks at the end of this crop year are projected to drop to 57 days of consumption, the shortest buffer since the 56-day-low in 1972 that triggered a doubling of grain prices.
http://www.energybulletin.net/17261.html
Lets not forget that the past large buffers were a hideous obscenity created by grossly distorted markets in Europe and Nth America which undermined the prices of basic foods in the third world. This, in turn, seriously undermined local food production and already fragile economies and is likely to have killed more people than drought or floods.
The absence of these so-called buffers, and the resulting increase in food prices will be a major boost to third world production. And this will feed through to local economies.
And contrary to the common misconception, this production will not be subject to major constraints from energy and fertiliser costs. Indeed, the greatest contributor to third world food production has no real input “cost” constraint. It is the simple incentive provided to a billion small farmers to spend more of their own time on weed control to preserve soil moisture and boost production of a more valuable crop.
All the studies of post-marxist economic take-offs reveal production boosts that far outstrip the inputs of energy and fertiliser. And the evidence from economic collapse in places like Zimbabwe also demonstrate far greater declines than the reduced energy and fertiliser data.
Those who formulate doomsday theories of food production, with minimal weighting for the critical impact of incentive driven farm labour, are ignoring a sleeping giant.
“And contrary to the common misconception, this production will not be subject to major constraints from energy and fertiliser costs.”
Ian that is probably one of your most ignorant statements I have read. I fallowed 100 hectares this year that was sandplain soil and what I deemed too risky a proposition with the new cost base paradigm (fertilizer have since increaesed a further 50%) and dodgy start to the 2007 season. I have never fallowed in my life and am currently harvesting barley crops going 3.2t/ha (ie a reliable producing area). Risks are ratcheting and high prices need to be much higher to encourage higher risks to be taken. Better odds available on the stockmarket. I know you’re not in the business of agricultural commodity production so I’ll just assume you had a little lapse with that comment.
Oh and high prices are one thing, physical input shortages are another … the reality of the world and finiteness of key resources appears to be different to your perception of the big picture. (Incidently this is the second season the subcontinenet Rabi or winter crop will experience physical fertilizer shortages).
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Fertiliser shortage hits Rabi farming in Rajshahi region (India)
Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Published On: 2007-11-03
National
Shortage of fertilisers has hit farmers in Rajshahi and adjoining areas during the ongoing peak sowing season for Rabi crops including potato – one of the cash crops in the region.
The Directorate of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Rajshahi informed the National Fertiliser Monitoring Committee about the situation and sought immediately step, said Rajshahi DAE Deputy Director Rabindra Kumar Majumder.
He said all field level DAE officials were ordered to remain alert against black marketing of fertiliser and to ensure proper distribution of the existing lot.
In many areas, fertiliser crisis sparked agitation among farmers as they returned home empty handed from dealers’ shops. They are crowding dealers’ shops and agriculture offices every day.
The DAE has targeted to bring about 37,000 hectares under potato cultivation, 25,000 under wheat, 7,000 under maize and 17,000 hectares under mustard seed cultivation in Rajshahi.
To attain the target, DAE officials estimated a demand for 5,000 tonnes of DAP, 4,000 tonnes of TSP (Triple Super Phosphate) and 8,000 tonnes of Potash during December-January.
Now, there is a stock of 140 tonnes of TSP, 50 tonnes of DAP and 70 tonnes of Potash, DAE sources said. The stock would be exhausted with a couple of days if supplies are not replenished, they said.
If DAP, TSP and Potash fertilisers are not made available to farmers within a short time, potato growers would turn to cultivation of maize or other Rabi crops, said a DAE official.
DAE officials said the crisis was caused due to delay in release of imported fertilisers from Jessore and Chittagong.
Fertiliser dealer Shafikul Haq at Kesarhat said many dealers like him deposited money in advance but supplies are yet to be made.
Potato grower Santu Mia in Durgapur said, he could not manage adequate potash for cultivating potato on 17 bighas of land. Afaz Uddin of Mohonpur said, fertilisers are not even available at higher prices.