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”
As long as they keep saying “it could” then they can’t be wrong. The problem is that some people read these articles and think “it will”. That’s the mistake.
In other news climate change threatens Christmas,
Santa, a north pole dwelling giver of presents stated that optimal conditions for raindeer flight was at risk from rising temperatures. Also indirect bullish*t levels from Al Gore, Real Climate and UEA were causing the condition to accelerate due to unprecedented levels of methane!
Thousands of children already scared to death by stories of drowning puppies are said to be very worried and that it’s worse than they thought.
And I can just see that article being regurgitated—with minor changes and a new photograph—in 2033 when we will be being bombarded with articles (and hysteria)
like this:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
…”Another Ice Age?”
(Monday, Jun 24, 1974 for those of you with inexhaustable paper archives 🙂
I like it. Good thinking!
Just another poop in the rolling concerted programme of “climate”-related scare stories in the run up to Cancun. Hilarious to hear Prof Jones of CRU announce the “warmest year” since 1830 in the middle of a snowstorm.
However, if it were even vaguely true (ie not the warmest airport tarmac since 1830) we should all be glad to returning to the balmy pre-industrial climate of the early 19th century.
I wonder if they’ll learn and start holding climate summits in August?
My 11 year old daughter just read this over my shoulder and laughed.
This belongs to the school of: “there’s two inches of column that needs filling … find something to fill it right now!”
Some wet behind the nose third rate journalist then desperately tries to think of something to write about, they remember the catch phrase “the biggest problem facing mankind”, they then try to make it topical and then quickly find some way to link global boring with the date.
How this piece got past any editor is beyond belief … clearly the proper editor must have been doing something better that day!
We raised some very tasty turkeys on our farm in Central Africa.
It isn’t cold in Central Africa!
Happy Thanksgiving to all at WUWT from Southern England, where it is -2C this morning.
Happy Thanksgiving, Anthony and crew.
Stupidity such as the above ‘scientist’s’ coulds and maybes are undoubtedly a major cause for the general public’s growing awareness of the stupid idea that warmer will be bad for us.
When I was a teenager in rural NZ, we were occasionally given a dressed wild turkey by farming clients. My mother, a brilliant cook who hated wasting anything, was wonderful at turning out broken-mouthed ewe (old!) from our wood-fired oven as tender as Spring lamb, but even she struggled to make those huge, muscular and stringy birds palatable. Years later, after turkey breeding for the table had become an industry, we very cautiously bought one and cooked a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for American colleagues. What a difference from those wild birds of my youth. Turkey has been on our Christmas menu ever since.
One comment said that we could eat cockroaches for Thanksgiving. I wouldn’t like that so much, because they have little breast meat and they cook so fast you wouldn’t even have time to mash the potatoes. Cockroaches have more leg meat, so those who like leg meat could have cockroach.
Apart from that I feel sorry for these turkeys. For the birds too.
Hmm, -10 degrees and 25++ cm of snow. The last ten years snow on christmas has been uncertain (maybe 50/50). I´m more worried about climate cooling (as Bilderberg seems to be too).
He should try Free Range Organic. They are really tough, all that extra charging about the fields builds up a lot of stringy muscle.
The US gets few holidays and on the biggest holiday, Thanksgiving, Discovery is selling “Misery & Guilt”.
This is the common denominator with all the people involved in Warmism. The journalists, the junk scientists, the political believers, they all have only one weapon in their armoury:
Invoking righteous guilt & misery on others.
***k these misery creating scumbags. On the scale of things Scrooge will soon be made a Saint.
Coming up Christmas, expect the next doomsday syllogism relating to Xmas puddings, “The Great Xmas Pudding Scare,” and Christmas Tree Proxy Temperature Readings, (HO, HO, HO.) :(o(
Add it to the list-
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
although it would appear the task is too great even for someone so obviously in the pocket of Big Oil.
“Warmer temperatures can impact Turkey meat texture, apperance and taste.”
No kidding! It’s called over cooking, my oven’s a bitch for doing that. Ah well! Turkey in, carbon out. At least we had turkey feet and chips. 🙂
This is what you get when you are on the low end of “totem pole” of the group in the news department that’s gotta grind out something, and assigned to write this year a “topical” theme for Thanksgiving. What else has been in the news (?) – if you are lazy, and have no creative writing bent, this article is the typical result. Bad, really bad.
Ok, hey, now, all you blokes and folks just fussing about the snow and cold and stuff, now you just stop it!! Its already been declared many a time that this is the warmest year on record. The science is settled, there is a consensus, don’t’cha know? Besides, turkey will come next year pre-cooked via solar mechanism that will, unfortunately, also result in a much drier meat, but we’ll put bows on them or something to make up for it, promise. But right now you all are clearly just being woosies and girly-men, carrying on about white stuff and slippery stuff when the world has already been declared to be WARMER by any number of keen sincere climate scientists who really really want to save the Earth. So, just knock it off, take some meds or sumptin’ would ya? Ya, and thanks for all the fish!
Happy Thanksgiving All!!
p.s., and on a more serious note, thanks to so many above for providing any number of good giggles and several belly laughs just reading thru the comments on this thread!
We’ll just have to start breeding more frozen turkeys.
Sir Toby: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Happy thanksgiving Anthony, mods and commentors.
All you turkey lovers may like to know that last week my local RSPCA asked me to take on a rescued turkey. He is now Mr Bojangles, has settled in well with Vinnie (Diesel) the rooster and his ladies.
I didn’t realise turkeys were so aggressive, but he makes a good watchdog. (I now realise where the term “turkey slap” comes from) (:0)
He’ll live a good long life, despite global warming
Mike Haseler says:
November 26, 2010 at 12:51 am
How this piece got past any editor is beyond belief … clearly the proper editor must have been doing something better that day!
He was probably on the WC!! That would be better than producing a journal staffed by these idiots.
Anthony
Can I just say, a very merry thanksgiving to you, your familly and more especially your wife. Following what I know was a traumatic and difficult year your ‘team’ have allowed you to keep this site going and going strong.
Enjoy the baked pomme de terre, succulent dinde and the chou de Bruxelles.
Patrick Davis says:
November 25, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Worried? I’m not as worried as I am deeply annoyed. What the beeb and Met Office did was release this info early because they know this winter will be a cold one again. It’s more “credible” to release it just after a warm autum instead of during/after a long, cold, snowy winter. It makes it worse that as a taxpayer who pays for the Met Office (part of the MOD) and licence payer (tv licence for the BBC), I have no say in how either these are run, and see these organisations be used to spin this AGW idea forward. Ideally I’d like these two to be neutral, which is something the BBC was supposed to be doing anyway.
Never did like turkey anyhow. Try roast duck.