http://www.wisconsinenvironment.org/newsroom/global-warming/global-warming-news/could-global-warming-threaten-the-packers-edge

http://www.wisconsinenvironment.org/uploads/Lb/l4/Lbl49XeYRVxP-kWjdn89bA/Factsheet—global-warming-and-football.pdf

This needs to updated using temperatures from 1971-2008 instead of 2000. They may find that the Geen Bay Packers home opener will be played on the frozen tundra of Lambeau in the near future, restoring the hertofore implied advantage.

Also, it’s interesting how in the recommendation at the bottom of the page the use the euphemism “gobal cooling polution” for that evil gas CO2.

I hope you are right.

I do not worry about China, India is a completely different story. Also, Evan, on your comment (but immigrants tend to have a higher birth rate (which i regard as a Good thing)): unfortunately the percapita energy requirement etc. in the U.S. is so high, that population growth in the U.S. will have a disproportionate environmental effect (that is, of course, if you believe that more waste and higher usage of energy has environmental impact).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6896174.stm

But look at Western Europe.

What I think is happening is that the world is reaching a point where a child is not a financial asset (to be sent to the canneries), but as a tremendous expense. Thus, birthrates have declined all over the world since 1990 (even in the US, where we are currently growing at 1m/year rather than 1.3m/year).

It’s true that no one can know the future, but I do predict a drop in birthrates (though also possibly partially offset by an end of old age and other medical advance).

Also consider that China currently has 120 male births to female. (Bad but not quite as bad in India.) You know what effect THAT has on population!

Wow, Global Warming is the miracle phenomenon. Is there anything it can’t do?

Can’t pay my mortgage…

I am not sure whether there will be a plunge (or even a reduction). Population leveling in 2050 is based on low birth rate, which may or may not be true at that time. Obviously they were wrong when they made such predictions about the U.S. population: please see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/us/07census.html

Actually, their resentment is partially justified since we have a dishonest banking system which loots them via inflation. Not only is it dishonest but it leads to booms and busts and finances foreign entanglements.

If we get more anti-business regulation, it will be because of the fractional-reserve bankers.

I’d bet the bankers kept their heads during the French Revolution by bribing the new government with paper money.

http://www.mises.org for more info

Because birthrate have plunged since 1990 to ‘way below replacement rate. If it weren’t for increasing longevity and immigration, populations would be undergoing a crash of bubonesque proportions.

By 2050 or so, when the rest of the world has riched up, the world’s population level will begin the “great plunge”. The only way to avert that demographic disaster is to “cure” old age (which may well happen within our lifetimes).

Like so totally. Today’s insanities, as horrendous as they are, have nothing on the past. (Check out any history book overing any time period, any place.)

I am not anti-big government, and I am big on “foreign entanglements”. And I don’t mind the rich paying all the federal taxes (which they already are doing) provided the top rate is not so high that it is reducing both production AND revenue. (And I think cutting the current top rate would result in an INcrease in revenue, not a decrease. On most social issues I lean left. But it drives me crazy when the poor are carefully trained to resent the rich. Talk about biting the hand that is feeding one! Damnable sin and blind stupidity rolled into one.)

Am I the only one that thinks the whole world is going crazy, deranged and dangerously stupid. To be honest we all deserve to wipe ourselves out and rid the universe of a perversely stupid”

No you’re not, but I would quibble with your verb. Not “is going”, but “has been” and I would add for a long time.

One amusing (sort of) point occurred in the sixties/seventies, when the Gaia meme really got going, and the suggestion used to be made that mankind was a sort of skin cancer on the face of the world and the most effective treatment was radiation therapy. We would wonder when the treatment was going to be applied. Unfortunately, as happens with most cancers, delaying treatment has allowed the condition to become worse.
It’s amazing how much damage one cubic mile of humanity can cause.

This has little to do with global warming – it depends on body’s internal regulation of temperature and blood chemistry.

retired engineer (07:22:53) : “0.6 degree will cause a massive increase in diseases?”

Increase or decrease, depends. Higher body temperature/fever could kill virus (sometimes bacteria) within the body when one gets sick. On the other side, higher outside temperature has been shown to increase infectious diseases – for example dengue and Chikungunya are so common in India and now it has even migrated to France and Italy where the vector now can survive due to changes in temperature. Four years ago, there was hardly any dengue in India. It is possible (although I have not seen the details) that higher temperature could affect viral and bacterial growth in blood when bags are not refrigerated.

The story is unusual, but not that nutty, I believe.

How do the folks in the Land of Odds store their blood supplies? And what about screening donated blood? New diseases from warmer temperatures? That we’ve never seen before? What about places on earth warmer than Odds? Do they have new and unknown diseases?

The heading says it all: Nutty.

Now, if Global Warming could cause the Cubs to win the Series…

Some quotes from the blood transfusion article:

“These conditions are expected to lead to higher levels of virus activity and greater exposure of humans to the viruses,” News.com.au quoted Prof Dunstan, as saying.”

“The review published in the latest Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health confirms Australia’s blood supply is among the safest in the world for currently screened viral pathogens like HIV and hepatitis.”

As in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, increased heat will create better breeding grounds for certain pathogens, or insects that carry the pathogens. And the blood supply in Australia is the safest in the world for currently screened viral pathogens. Currently screened. As in, new pathogens that will thrive in the heat are not screened, and therefore people who donate blood may not know that they are carriers. This is why global warming will cause contaminated blood for blood transfusions- the author of this article is trying to say that blood donations will be tainted because warmer temperatures will cause new diseases, and those diseases will not be screened for in blood donations.

Am I the only one that thinks the whole world is going crazy, deranged and dangerously stupid. To be honest we all deserve to wipe ourselves out and rid the universe of a perversely stupid lifeform.