By Katie Tubb
It seems like with global warming embedded in our politics (for now), anything we don’t fully understand can now be ‘legitimately’ blamed on the weather. Forget the trusty old excuse about the dog eating your homework: A sampling of news stories tells us instead that global warming might really be the cause of all our problems. Allegedly, thanks to global warming:
Your breakfast got even less exciting. Your morning coffee is going to be more expensive. Also, the cost of cereal could climb by as much as 30 percent because of global warming according to an Oxfam report(their recommendation to General Mills and Kellogg’s: “intensify” effort to cut greenhouse gases, which ironically would also likely increase the cost of cereal and beverages). Thankfully, populations of feral cats and dogs are liable to increase, and these could suffice as possible “bridge food” for climate change refugees.
History and culture have been redefined. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson didn’t make it off the Titanic in 1912 thanks to global warming. Two years later the world engaged in WWI, followed by the Great Depression, and WWII, all of which apparently slowed the pace of global warming. In current cultural events, the arts world has been subjected to climate change…the musical. And a horror movie. Some congregations have been subjected to a new topic for bad sermons. And employees are less productive at work.
America’s adversaries have been aided. Climate change has boosted Russian rice, corn and sunflower seed crops and promises to unlock some of the natural resources trapped in Siberian permafrost. And rather than failed diplomacy, climate change was the catalyst for Boko Haram. Meanwhile, North Korea has emerged as an example of combating climate change.
Nature got a little bit wilder. Salamanders are shrinking in size, but the return of bus-sized snakes is more likely. Meanwhile the coquis frog in Puerto Rico croaks a little higher, butterflies in Ohio are showing up a bit earlier, and there is an abundance of rock snot in West Virginia streams and not enough tissues to deal with it. It also has been discovered that global warming killed a 16-year-old polar bear (even though the average lifespan of a polar bear is 15-18 years).
Vacation plans are being ruined. Airline passengers might want to use those seatbelts on their next flight because of greater turbulence. Thanks to global warming, life in Asia is generally miserable and England will be too wet, and too dry…and too cold…and too hot. That hike you may have been planning to the peak of Mt. Everest will be harder, in case it wasn’t hard enough already, and out of good eco-conscience you probably shouldn’t run another marathon because of all the unnecessary CO2 emissions. And the migration of the Baird’s sparrow away from North Dakota to Canada is threatening to cut into the hordes of tourists coming to bird watch.
What has been called the dangerous, more expensive, more uncertain future of climate change may in fact just be climate, which always changes. Nevertheless, the Obama administration wants to implement costly global warming regulations that not only will have almost zero impact on global average temperatures, but also will drastically change for the worse how Americans access and use energy, an important building block of the American economy and quality of living
Now that’s a real problem—one Congress actually can do something about.
Source: Heritage.org
Four billion years is enough! Stop cyclical global climate change now!
Check put numberwatch blog. My tablet won’t allow me put in the address.
Apparently, cereals will stop growing only in the USA/Canada and in western Europe. In Russia, on the other hand, cereals will grow more, also because of global warming.
CO2 is only poissonous for plants in occident. In the Eastern World CO2 is the source of Carbon and Oxygen as usual. And their growth follows a Michaelis Menten kinetics, as usual.
mkelly says:
June 22, 2014 at 7:53 am
Check put numberwatch blog. My tablet won’t allow me put in the address.
Is this the one you’re referring to?
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Seems to me the only thing not due to AGW so far is ingrowing toenails.
But if someone gives me a grant I guess I can research that, and if the grant is big enough I can prove the link.
Obama has found a reason for the upcoming inflation and monetary devaluation -> Climate Change. The future increase in prices couldn’t possibly due to the Democratic/Obama/Federal Reserve monetary policy, could it????
Oh, I forgot to list the EPA and their Draconian coal policy which will cause energy prices to soar. This is another Democratic/Obama policy. Obama even stated that he wanted $4 to $5 dollar a gallon gasoline. Remember when Bush was crucified for gasoline hitting $1.84 a gallon??? Note that gasoline and food are not included in the immoral calculation of inflation!!
Katie……you forgot #1
…the recreational ski industry
I just had to click on the “Rock Snot” link.
Just 24 things ? Is that all? Check this out…
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
My personal favorite was the article I found that linked the drop in tourism in Pakistan in 2008 to Climate Change.
No, congress has no ability to do anything about the politics and pending forced rules of catastrophic human-driven climate change. Only voters have that power and many are not willing to use that power to stop this madness, preferring obligation-attached handouts and a caretaker inhibiting nanny to the hard work and personal responsibility of freedom.
I live in the Northern Hemisphere, but make my living in the politically enlightened (NO Carbon Tax) Southern Hemisphere so I can compensate any shortfall in QOL with cash?
in the article “rock snot” is described as looking slick and slimy, but in reality has a rough, cottony feel. It comes in shades of light brown and white, and it covers river rocks in thick mats.
Only reason I mention it, sounds like a harvestable resource.
Oh and another thing – rock snot is a native species of algae that is interfering suddenly with the recreational activity of fishing for non-native trout which are stocked by government action.
And the reason rock snot has suddenly bloomed up into an issue? Remember back when the enviro lobby insisted that coal power was causing acid rain that in turn caused some streams to have a high acid content? Well mitigation , ie: adding lime to the headwaters of streams to cut the acidity back allows the perfect water conditions for Rock Snot to flourish.
Dave Wendt says:
June 22, 2014 at 8:06 am
Yes. Thank you.
Mentioning AGW raises my blood pressure!
Global warming shall cause the USA to lose the FIFA World Cup!
America has never won in a year this hot. That’s a fact, Jack. Look it up.
Kadaka,
Pluperfect progessive prognostication!
You win the “Correlation Is Causation” Award!
};>)
Mac
12 things I claim the USA could have done using HAARP technology:
1. Induce very warm weather for the Sochi Olympics as an act of political spite, vandalism and pure anti-sportsmanship.
2. Create the astonishing snow conditions in the Scottish mountains this winter, with snow depths more akin to the top of Mt Blanc than the top of Glencoe Ski Area.
3. Create the drought in California to try and break the political stranglehold of people they consider to be ‘anti-capitalist’.
4. Create the recent floods in the Balkans.
5. Create the stupendously cold US winter this year.
6. Modulate the ionosphere to create the glut of Sudden Stratospheric Warming events in the past few years.
7. Disable the controls of MH370 mid flight as an act of terrorism against, primarily, the Peoples Republic of China.
8. Take over the controls of the two planes which flew into the twin towers on 9/11.
9. Trigger the Tsunami which devastated a Japanese nuclear reactor.
10. Trigger the Boxing Day tsunami which wiped out the lives of so many in SE Asia.
11. Manipulation of African rain patterns for the purposes of inducing drought, agricultural crop failure and subsequent dependency on US ‘benevolence’.
12. Modulate jet stream patterns in controlled or uncontrolled ways ‘just because they can’: a demonstration of the potential for pure evil, without quite crossing the rubicon.
In all this pfaff about making things up, it is about time that the world started examining and scrutinising the technology which potentially can do unlimited harm if in the wrong hands (which includes the US military if their leaders are morally defective, master race supremacists or simply inhuman animals).
For those who haven’t heard of HAARP, it stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, which aims to use focussed pulses of electromagnetic radiation targeted at specific areas of the earths atmosphere to do who knows what. It is likely that experiments have already been undertaken and you, the citizens of the world, have most assuredly NOT GIVEN YOUR CONSENT FOR SUCH DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS TO BE CARRIED OUT.
Not that such democratic niceties bother the ‘elite’ of the world. They think they are above you lot. MORE EDUCATED. The truth is that they are simply more ruthless, have more access to power and have fewer scruples than most about what they do with that power.
Let us be clear: if you change global climate in either controlled or uncontrolled ways as a sovereign nation state, you are affecting the living conditions and potential health and prosperity of every other nation on earth. That makes it, per se, an act of war. You have deliberately sought to manipulate climate or other matters within the sovereign airspace of another country and that is akin to using chemical or biological weapons if what you do is particularly harmful.
There are protocols about biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and the USA is rather more voluble than most about countries such as Iran not being allowed to access them.
it therefore behoves the USA not to be using HAARP for climate control without the express consent of the world, for which no mechanism currently exists, so they had better not have been doing so.
I am sure that they are not, as they tell the world every day how they are ‘the greatest democracy in the world’ and ‘the greatest democracy in the world’ would never do such things without consulting with all the citizens of the world on a matter which affects them all.
Would they??
Rhys Jaggar says:
June 2 2014 at 11:12 am
Rhys,
The USA, using HAARP ‘technology’, was responsible for all those things???
Wow! Just…. Wow!!
Thanks for being sooooo well informed about the US HAARP technology!
Your post was ….. entertaining.
Mac
HAARP? Isn’t that what the Art Bell/ Tinfoil hat crowd are in to?
There are broadly two kinds of people – this is universal across all humanity. Producers at one extreme and Rentiers at the other – with most people falling somewhere in between.
There are those who just get on with things, work hard and produce (producers) and then there are the lazy others that find every excuse possible for why things aren’t easy or as good or how they would like, and why those that work and produce need to change or contribute to help make it easier for the others (Rentiers).
Those who believe that measures must be taken to stop global warming are the lazy type – the Rentiers feel they are owed something by those that produce. The Rentiers devote large amounts of thought and energy on how to control the producers through rent for their industrious activities. Rentiers are always thinking up ways to gain rent from any productive activity.
It works everywhere. Even in family. The most highly industrious family member is obliged by the rest of the family to pay rent to the lazy unlucky “helpless” ones. This form of Rent is required to be paid for the privilege of having blood relations.
In the case of global warming, the logic runs along the lines of those that produce must remunerate those who don’t because the producers “harm” or “use up” the collective environment or natural resource of the planet (which belongs to everyone).
Global warming has absolutely nothing to do with science – it is only & entirely about redistribution of wealth from productive activity. Therefore nothing that Rentiers say or claim will make any sense unless viewed from the perspective that lazy types continue to come up with excuses/justifications to expropriate & redistribute wealth from hard working types.
and there is an abundance of rock snot in West Virginia streams and not enough tissues to deal with it.
This was familiar to me where I grew up in the late 40s, early 50s. The color and texture was exactly as described. It did appear to stunt fish size, but crawdads were plentiful and good sized.
According to the EPA
Now if the spread of Didymosphenia geminata was due to warming, wouldn’t in be moving to higher latitudes instead of lower latitudes?
Thanks Katie. Nicely done.
Now do a compensatory one.
Funny cartoons by Josh and others.
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Minnesotans for Global Warming.
You want the full monty?
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Spurious Correlations
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I skeptical.
You see, here in the US, women got the vote which was followed by Prohibition which was followed by The Great Depression which was followed WWII which was ended by the ultimate PMS, The Atom Bomb. And now Congress can’t balance it’s checkbook.
Of course, I might be wrong. Guess I can’t be a “Climate Scientist”. 8-(