From the “nothing escapes the clutches of global warming” department comes this farce:
Here’s the ah, er, beef:
“Climate change could affect meat quality in two ways,” Gregory, a professor in animal welfare physiology at the University of London’s Royal Veterinary College, explains. “First, there are direct effects on organ and muscle metabolism during heat exposure which can persist after slaughter.”
As a second climate change impact, Gregory believes “changes in livestock and poultry management practices in response to hazards that stem from climate change could indirectly lead to changes in meat quality.”
Ummm, gosh. What did America do during the 1930’s? Buy all their meat in Canada?
Read the entire article here
h/t to WUWT reader “Rational Debate”
I once had a drill sergeant in the Army that would say something along the line of the following to the Discovery people.
“You must be on dogfood private because not even crack wouldn’t make you that stupid.”
The only words I removed from the quote… well, I will let you guess them.
John Kehr
The Inconvenient Skeptic
Despite all the dire predictions, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving dinner.
Thanks to all at WUWT for this wonderful blog and Happy Thanksgiving to all.
They are everywhere: http://www.nwtf.org/for_hunters/all_about_turkeys.html
Seems there is a species for every habitat-this is ridiculous…
Happy thanksgiving to all my friends on the far side of the pond!
Every time I see something like this article, I always write to the editor, something along the lines of…
Dear Editor,
Thank you for the (insert ridiculous scare) article.
With belief in global warming fading fast amongst the public, articles like this simply reinforce the absurdity of the Warmist position.
Keep up the good work etc…
Boy does that annoy them!!!
Idiots masquerading as humans! They don’t seem to know that warmer means longer summers and not so cold winters and, thus, a longer growing season and better crops. What’s the down side here?
Is this Neville Gregory’s 15 minutes of fame ??
I’m truly embarrassed for him. What a clown.
Must be easy to get a job as a “journalist” these days. Can’t think of anything to write, just start with, “Climate change causes”………da da da!
Ouch my big toe hurts, or whatever, must be caused by climate change.
No wonder people are sick of this BS.
Happy Thanksgiving our American friends, enjoy your juicy moist turkey.
It’s even worse than that. All self-respecting Green-minded people need to give up their cellphones and wireless computer connections. The electromagnetic radiation is making trees sick, says a new study. Affects growth, hurts bark, kills leaves.
Ultra-fine particles in vehicle exhaust may also be contributing. To help Save The World, CARB may be forced to require all fuel burning vehicles to run their exhaust through HEPA filters.
Also, the expected food crises brought about by climate change may be exacerbated by the electromagnetic radiation, as well as there being a crippling of our ability to make inexpensive carbon-neutral biofuels. The study found the EM radiation could stunt the growth of corn cobs.
It was done by Wageningen University, in the Netherlands. I think I found the abstract and other info here. Translating Dutch to English with Babel Fish, the title is “Trees have charge of electromagnetic radiation” so that’s probably it. Anyone who can provide an English translation or knows where an English version is, feel free to help out and post a link.
Wow. To Save The Earth! eco-minded people have to give up the “smartphones” and wireless laptops they use to watch An Inconvenient Truth online. Al Gore will have to surrender his Blackberry. Ah heck, he can buy carbon credits for his jet use, but there are no “ultra-fine particulate” offsets. Oh no, without his jet he can’t get to Cancun in time to Save Humanity! We are all DOOMED.
There will be advantages by 2035, the turkey will come precooked by the greenhouse oven thus a saving of energy.
Enjoy your 2 star energy rated thanksgiving.Dam! we Aussies miss out.
give thanx to Anthony for WUWT; if there was any such thing as a “free market”, your site would be plastered with advertising.
give thanx to those who suggested books for the local library.
give thanx to New Scientist for another cool headline!
26 Nov: New Scientist: Ships and buoys made global warming look slower
by Michael Marshall
Claims that global warming has slowed down over the past decade were partly based on faulty data…
So although the newer buoy measurements are more accurate, the switch in method has erroneously shown sea-surface temperatures appearing to level off.
“Compared with ships, buoys show cooler temperatures,” says Vicky Pope at the Met Office. “You have to be careful of false signals.”..
Part of the apparent slowdown in temperature rise does appear to be genuine, however…
From now on climate measurements from the buoys will be “corrected” so that they can be compared with the decades of data from ship measurements, and vice versa.
It’s not the first time measurements have had to be corrected: a change in how ships measured sea temperatures caused the apparent cooling in the 1940s.
Journal reference: Remote Sensing of Environment, in press
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19772-ships-and-buoys-made-global-warming-look-slower.html
Now thats what I call a poultry excuse for an article… I wouldn’t even want to stuff my turkey with it..
Happy Thanksgiving from down under; I’ll put a snag on for you..
“agw” has certainly changed our thanksgiving – we had a cold front with snow come by on monday, and another snowfall today for a “white thanksgiving”.
“Charles Higley says:
November 25, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Idiots masquerading as humans! They don’t seem to know that warmer means longer summers and not so cold winters and, thus, a longer growing season and better crops. What’s the down side here?”
Shorter ski season?? 😀
Global warming enhances virility and CO2 makes stronger beer. Spread the word.
well, global warming have been confirmed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11841368
sigh…
From Barry Day on November 25, 2010 at 8:47 pm:
For Thanksgiving Day here in central Pennsylvania, the weather was early fluffy snow, followed by icy particles that bounced, followed by rain. Now late at night, there is even more rain.
Sad to say, the turkeys in the solar cookers did not fare well. Ed Begley Jr would be disappointed.
I’ll bet you deniers will claim that even Bigfoot is not threatened by Anthropogenic Global Climate Disruption–huh, huh?
well we will have to eat cockroaches instead
I’m waiting for the media over here to start reporting that the unseasonably early snows now dumping on Britain and forecast to keep it up in to next week is down to catastrophic global climate change.
The only issue the mainstream media will focus on however is the impact it may or may not have on shopping days to Christmas.
“Wucash says:
November 25, 2010 at 9:24 pm”
Not too long ago The MET stated that snow would be a thing of the past. That’s funny as the last two winters in the UK have been cold, that is RECORD COLD, like ~30 year+ cold records broken. And last winter with a satelite image of the entire British isles covered in snow.
I would not worry too much about what The MET says about 2010, it’s not even over yet, but still they make rediculous claims. Most people I know in the UK just ignore these statements. And this years winter in the UK is looking to be very very cold.
Next up – – Christmas and the effects of global warming…
Global warming could melt the North Pole, forcing Santa Claus to relocate to northern Greenland. The even bigger danger might be to his reindeer, as they may no longer be able to fly.
And then, OMG, New Year’s Eve…
Global warming could devastate the champagne region of France, destroying its ability to grow grapes. No more true champagne. Just plain old ordinary bubbly wine.
Global warming could devastate all our holidays! Is nothing sacred??
Every article of this nature is another nail in the coffin of the credibility of the climate change movement.
I wonder if they have any idea of how inane stories like this affect peoples perception of how seriously they should take the threat of climate change.
Could it be that I counted eight appearances of the “could” in this article? Who could’ve paid for this research? Could I go crazy if I could read any more of this cr*p?
I have to say that I prefer Bertand Russell’s refutable syllogism, ‘All swans are white,’ to the namby pamby dry and pasty turkeys of these global warmist Aristotles: ‘All Thanksgiving Day turkeys *could eventually* be affected by climate change.’