Crop Loss And Heifer-Dust

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Roanoke Times, 5-22-11, Horiz Pg 3: Crop loss and our warming planet.
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The highly biased and slanted article describes the results of a mathematical computer study that alleges that global warming is reducing wheat and corn production relative to what would have been produced if the temperatures had not changed during the past 30 years; therefore we must do something now!
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Before totally freaking-out one might reflect on the following items:
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There has been less than a one degree average global warming in the last 100 years, hardly a significant or noticeable change relative to all the major variables that affect crop production.
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Global warming is primarily due to natural variations in the earth’s long term systems so all we can reasonably do is prepare for the changes.
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The Medieval Warm Period was much warmer that it is now and food production was greatly enhanced by the warming. It was the Little Ice Age that caused massive starvation and death. During the period 1940 to 1975 there was a global cooling period that resulted in “scientific consensus” that we were entering another “Ice Age” and that our food supply was in jeopardy.
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What a different song the major media were singing during our significant cooling from 1940 through 1975. Major articles by renown scientists including front page graphics:
Another Ice Age is Coming and we will all freeze and starve to death!
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
Text Article:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
Graphics:
http://www.denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
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Time, June 24, 1974
Weather extremes around the globe and artic ice thickening and displacing wildlife southward.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
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Washington Post November 2, 1922
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/aug/14/inside-the-beltway-81073443/
"Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."
The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."
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During the period 1996 to 2009 World Wheat Production increased from 585 to 682 million metric tons: a 16.5% increase during a time in which Al Gore and the AWG Alarmists claim there is significant global warming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production_statistics
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There are many studies that indicate global warming up to 5 degrees will greatly improve food production albeit that some crop substitutions may be necessary in some areas.
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Perhaps if the Roanoke Times and this author and the sources of the article are worried about corn production they should contact Obama and tell him to stop burning our food (ethanol) in our cars!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/03/hunger-despair-for-millions-obama-still.html
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Also, the Editors of The Roanoke Times should consider publishing some balanced views of the Global Warming debate instead of their steady diet of Al Gore and Associate Alarmist Heifer-Dust.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-im-skeptical-of-man-caused-global.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/AGW-Skeptic/
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