Reposted from the NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on 20. April 2021
The COVID crisis worked wonderfully for the cheerleaders and addicts of lockdowns. It showed that it was indeed possible to panic the pubic enough to get them to accept restrictions and lockdowns.
WANTED: NEW CRISIS TO SUCCEED COVID 19
But everyone knows that the days are numbered for the COVID crisis, and so another crisis will be needed if the wonderful lockdowns and restrictions are to continue. But the “climate crisis” is just so old and much of public just isn’t buying it. Another crisis is needed to fan the flames of panic and to keep liberty at bay.
What could it be?
One crisis now circulating is the “global water crisis”. That, in combination with the global warming crisis, of course is leading to mass crop failures, thirst and later mass starvation in hundreds of millions, unless we act (lockdown) now.
In a brand new interview, yet another balding European doomsday scientist is warning we are now in the midst of a global water crisis – and of course time is running out and fundamental changes need to be enacted rapidly, among them a meat lockdown.
In a new interview, Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK) researcher, Prof. Dr. Dieter Gerten says the “increasing water shortage” is due to population growth and of course “climate change”.
Signs of course are forest fires in California and Oregon caused by severe drought. And using just three years of below normal rainfall as scientific evidence, even Germany is allegedly drying out, Gerten suggests.
Warmer means drier?
Gerten warns that even with a global warming of just 2 degrees, water shortages in some regions would worsen significantly. Never mind what experts like the NOAA claim – omething Gerten avoids mentioning.
For Europe, Gerten is predicting much wetter winters, and extremely drier summers, and warns this will have dire consequences for agriculture.
Water as a human right
As a solution, Gerten cited Peter Gleick in suggesting a new integrated eco-system management and water ethic that views water as a human right.
To limit evaporation from agricultural land, Gerten suggests covering croplands with straw to hold in the moisture. Another solution is rainwater harvesting in ponds for use during dry periods. “Field studies show that crop yields can be doubled, or even quadrupled, simply by using water better, ” Gerten explains.
Why do PIK scientists know this, and farmers don’t?
“Not long ago, we calculated globally that if such measures were implemented on all existing agricultural land, then we would find massive production increases everywhere that is colored green (17:42) […] yields would increase without having to use one drop of water more.”
Gerten warns that climate change is going to make food far more difficult, especially in the red-colored regions (20:50) due to more heat and drought.
Veggie diet can save 40% water
Later Gerten suggests that the water crisis could be in large part averted by humans adopting a vegetarian diet, which according to one study (Vanham et al 2016) requires some 40% less water for food production.
That’s the aim: to turn everyone into vegetarians. The meat lockdown is in the pipeline.
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Not an agronomist, not an economist, not a dietician, not a medical doctor or biologist, has published on “religious science,” doesn’t understand the concept of a “human right” except as a gift granted by a hierarchical social system. What could possibly go wrong?
I was always brought up with the parental view that I always had rights, but being Christians, they also added that such rights always came with a responsibility!!!!
The Dieter Diet will be good for you…and Mother Nature – just eat it and zip it.
The guy is not wearing the aluminum foil hat properly – supposed to be pulled down securely over eyes and ears.
It has to be real tin, aluminum doesn’t work.
” ….. yeilds would increase without having to use one drop of water more.”
Isn’t more CO2 doing that already?
yields, even.
Yeah but that more CO2 is human CO2, which everyone knows is not the same as natural CO2, and so it doesn’t make the bigger crops more nutritious or tasty or anything.
Seems to me that if yields would increase that much, farmers would be doing it simply because they would make more profit. Could it possibly be yields wouldn’t increase by enough to offset the costs?
Oh, there’s that nasty “cost” word again…
All you have to do is place each plant into its own individual greenhouse enclosure with a small climate control device that can be operated on solar power, the cheapest energy in history. The cost of raising a carrot is less than 50€ (under optimum conditions of course).
Why would anyone who makes their living off taxation want lockdowns and restrictions to continue?
Sceptics, spot the crazy.
Middle class, comfortable and working at home in a secure job. Who would miss a commute?
Don’t worry, the working classes at Amazon are still delivering…
Don’t worry, the
working classesdeplorables at Amazon are still delivering…Maybe those whose profession is to make a living off taxation don’t see that a profitable tax base is a necessary part of the deal. Or maybe the intense satisfaction of controlling the unwashed masses is a more addictive drug, and addicts can be destructive to themselves and others.
You’ve got that right, Richard, because they have quit pretending to spend tax revenue and are just printing trillions of dollars here in the U.S. That’s evidence that all your points are spot on.
It always ends badly.
I’m sure I read somewhere from an official source (ish) that today we produce enough food in the world (via the evil wicked debauched & corrupt free-enterprise system) to feed around 7 billion people, therefore the issue seems to be one of distribution, & NOT production! Also, a warmer world will have more moisture in the atmosphere suggesting that statistically, more rain should fall somewhere (probably in the UK)! 😉 Can anyone tell me, is the Sun still burning hotter & brighter than at any time in the last 12,000 years, according to Sami Olanki et al (2011) from the Max Plank Institute, Germany? I know it’s probably entered a new grand Solar minimum assuming sunspot activity is a measure of such phenomena!
Not 7 billion, 11 billion people.
Well what are “they” worrying about! And don’t we have desalination plants using that very limited resource of 70% of the Earth’s surface being covered in water?
Not only do we produce plenty of food now, but here in the US we actually pay farmers not to grow crops in some places and under some circumstances. Much agricultural land has been taken out of production, and could be put back in easily if needed.
And don’t forget the food crops converted to fuel that could feed millions more.
Potsdam is not what it used to be under Friedrich der Große.
Good point and fully agree. In general universities appear to have sold out to the climate activism game probably because of the amount of research funding available. Here is a review of a potsdam research paper I did some time ago.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/05/22/potsdam-institute-of-climate/
I’m asking if these guys in Potsdam got anything “right” since they exist?
Can’t remember
Good reporting, P Gosselin. The story shows two sides of the CAGW claims, that the sea level will rise (more water) and the croplands will be drier (less water). This skips over the warmer is wetter cycle involving ocean water evaporation and transport to land areas and depositing it as rain or snow. So, let’s help the process along by constructing nuclear pebble-bed reactors all along the coastal areas and desalinate the sea water, and pipe it to wherever it is needed. Win-win. Sea level goes down and more potable water is available for people and agriculture.
Where will all the workers come from? With all the inept college graduates with degrees being paid NOT TO WORK, why would they get their hands dirty doing manual labor?
The old adage, a rising tide lifts all boats applies to MORE people doing productive work produces more of everything for everyone. In the US, the current group in control believes in a zero sum game, there is X out there and there will be no more, so pay people to sit home, or better yet, to go out and riot.
anyone told this doofus that putting ponds or dams on farmland is frowned upon/banned BY his greentard besties?
might upset the ..pick anything from wildlife to rivers/oceans bugs whatever
If Australia has fresh water issues, the reason becomes obvious when you look at storage capacity built per decade…
Now who has put the brake on building much needed dams.. eg Welcome Reef, Mitchell River, Tillegra.
The Far-Left socialist greenie psuedo-environmentalists continue to cause MUCH HARM to the prosperity of human kind..
It is interesting that by far the largest increase in storage capacity in South Africa was between 1970 and 1980. Since 1994 the graph has nearly flatlined barely above the x-axis. Two more recent dams in Lesotho – a country surrounded by South Africa – should not be included in this list.
The main dam supplying Port Elizabeth (population over 1.1 million) is at 4.8% and is too low to supply any water to the city. The biggest problems are incompetence, corruption and the lack of foresight of the members of the metro council. Water is not the problem but people are!
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_dams_in_South_Africa
It isn’t any surprise that left-wing labor won power in Qld and in the late 80s and put to bed any further building of dams because ‘we won’t need to think about this for 40 years’. 2006 we were desperate for rain in the catchments, so they looked to the expert who claimed we wouldn’t need a new dam in the area for 40 years to head up a commission to look into how to fix the problem. Corruption and incompetence do seem to go hand in hand on the left side over here.
When I dug a 2nd dam on my property (without getting local greenie council permission) I was told that “more dams don’t make it rain”.
My response was that yes, but when it does rain I will collect twice as much water, so then when the next dry spell comes, I will have 2 half-full dams instead of one, which will see me through.
Burning hydrocarbons results in mainly H2O and CO2, with a bunch of other minor parts. Burning a single Methane CH4, as in natural gas for example, produces two molecules of water vapor and one molecule of CO2. Fossil fuels add water vapor to the atmosphere, enhancing the hydrologic cycle by returning these materials to their original state.
Maybe that’s why the alarmists want to stop it… to try to dry humanity out…
Starting to think that the meaning of “environmentalist” post-1960 is actually “anti-humanist.”
“The COVID crisis worked wonderfully for the cheerleaders and addicts of lockdowns. It showed that it was indeed possible to panic the public enough to get them to accept restrictions and lockdowns”.
Or fine them exceedingly heavily if they dare to object to the restrictions and lockdowns. That certainly helped to ‘persuade people’.
Interestingly, some protests were permitted and others were not. BLM, XR etc were allowed to get on with it – even to throw a statue into the river Avon, opponents of lockdown, however, found themselves harrassed, arrested and fined.
Since when has an Earth Modelling Coordinator been an expert on biological systems and nutrition? That’s their usual cris de coeur, is it not – not qualified to speak.
I happen to know all the available evidence indicates that the natural human diet is omnivorous and includes meat. Does Gerten understand the consequences of his ideological push for vegetarianism in terms of fractured bones and dental health issues?
Unlikely – as they say.
Not just bones and teeth. High quality protein is necessary for brain development and maintenance. Maybe some of us eat too much meat, but powering and feeding a brain requires not just calories but also the amino acids, fatty acids and other lipids in animal protein.
On second thought, maybe that is part of the plan–deprive the population of animal protein and dumb them down.
There is such a thing as too much protein, if in the absence of fat often called rabbit starvation that happened to artic explorers who caught and ate rabbits, had plenty to eat but still died of starvation, we are not great converters of protein to energy but a diet high on fat is quite fine but you do need protein as well. there is NO requirement for carbohydrates in the diet but even animal foods can contain trace amounts or decent amounts of carbs (like milk for example).
The nitrogen 15 (N15) data indicated that we ate mostly animal sourced foods for the last hundreds of thousands of years, N15 being more commonly found in animal proteins compared to N14 in plants. Our historic levels were so high it ended up higher than many other carnivores indicating how much we targeted animal sources and that even other carnivores were perfectly acceptable sources of nourishment.
For that matter high intake of grains and vegetable oils existed one other time in history, during the egyptian dynasties where autopsies on the mummies indicated high calcification of arteries still visible even once the arteries themselves have disappeared. This existed the entire length of time with cases reported from all periods during this time where they ate this diet. They barely ate any animal foods though.
Back to protein though, if getting enough fat from say a steak or chop from an animal then there isn’t much of an issue of too much protein unless you have a specific genetic issue.
Gerten is just another overeducated idiot, even presuming to give practical advice on farming practice. And now he’s become an expert in agriculture not just climate sceance.
Meanwhile, “Biden assembled an all-star climate team. Now he has to deliver.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-assembled-an-all-star-climate-team-now-he-has-to-deliver/ar-BB1fSQQj
If every human on the planet were to become vegetarians it would take far more what and chemicals to feed them than we are currently using. What a bunch of morons.
That was exactly my thought. Protein from meat is much more dense than that from vegetables. At least that’s what my dietician told me. Eat your meat first, then veggies, then carbs.
From what I’ve read, eating meat was the first step, then cooking it the second step*, toward being able to evolve brains capable of rational thought, due to the availability of abundant fuel for such a brain.
I think that might be hinting at something about the modern anti-meat movement…
(* note: whoever came up with the idea of SMOKING meat was one of humanity’s greatest geniuses)
TonyG,
Just tried brisket in my new, bio-mass smoker; and I agree wholeheartedly!
Besides preventing spoilage and discouraging insects, it’s hard to beat the variety of flavors it is possible to create with modern smokers!
As a hat tip to fred250 and our other Aussie mates, I think I’ll try a leg of lamb with some fresh rosemary and extra cherrywood as my next endeavor!
Bio-availability is clearly different between animal and plant sources. the best animal source is eggs though with near on 100% availability, slightly better than meats and dairy and a long way better than plants that normally give incomplete proteins anyway.
Then there is the issue that the plant doesn’t want to be digestible to the animal and has all kinds of pesticides and mechanisms inside to affect the health of the animal over time. Plant lectins, oxalic acid, phytates etc are great examples of these defenses. the lectins can seriously damage our intestinal mucus lining (gluten that contains the lectin gliadin is such an example), help cause leaky gut and if it passes through our gut due to the leaky gut and trigger an immune response often leading to auto-immune conditions (hashimotos and its link to gluten is one such condition). Lectins have also been tracked travelling up the vagus nerve on the stomach to the brain and those same lectins found at the sites of damaged tissue in the brain of parkinsons sufferers. This is consistent with trials in dogs where they could reliably give parkinsons to dogs by feeding them peas or a 45% reduction in parkinsons in those who had a vagoscopy (vagus nerve disconnection) procedure, now the reason it wasn’t 100% is probably due to the operation already being done on people who were well into adulthood thus damage was probably already done.
Oxalic acid will actively bind with minerals making oxalate crystals. These small sharp objects can damage cells or build up in tissue only to be dumped at time with low consumption of oxalic acid (which for some may never happen). Studies even in the 70s clearly showed that eating mineral rich foods in the preferred elemental form such as elemental zinc such as the 1979 study that showed that foods very high in elemental zinc like oysters can have their absorption reduced or even blocked by plant foods, in this case reduced with black beans and essentially stopped with corn tortillas.
This didn’t mean ancient peoples did not eat plants but if they were to eat seeds they would do a combination of the sprouting, fermenting, soaking, long cooking etc to a much higher standard that what we see in the way these same foods are served today, hence corn that is actually high in B1 has for be fortified with B1 as none of it is bio-available.
Don’t assume that the end goal of any Green program is to make life better / easier for anyone. Always remember, to them, there are several billion more people around than there needs to be.
Yes, and yet they never eliminate themselves, always time for someone else to die instead.
Aside from the obvious issues with vegetables, I found out that fake meat (the healthy green option, apparently) has a bigger carbon footprint than the meat it is trying to replace. All in all, it’s a bit of an own goal on that front.
All green “solutions” are worse than the “problem” they claim to want to solve.
I love the lefty concept that just because you were born you are somehow entitled to some percentage of the world resources … it goes from food, water right thru to wealth.
The Potsdam Institute is a nest of thermageddonites secreting ridiculous claims like: “it gets colder, because it’s getting warmer!”
Are you certain about that? 🙂
There are many ways to panic the pubic.
Come on over to my house for a drink of water, on an Island in 1,200 cubic miles of potable water.
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Mostly from COLD and FROST !!
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OUTRIGHT LIES is all they seem to have left. !!
good lord the one thing we’ll never run out of is water … he actually thinks drinking water eliminates it forever …
He needs to watch the opening scene of Waterworld
Nah, really punish him! Make him watch the whole damn thing!
Followed by The Postman!
If we had affordable electricity we could recycle water or desalinate. Also, as agricultural techniques improve across the world, water usage is reduced.
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” —Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and Dr. John Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, 1970, p. 323
Oddly enough the Ehrlichs would be in danger from the mob for uttering the word “idiot”. It isn’t the “idiot” I’m worried about, for there are plenty of idiots running around out there, its the amoral person with the machine gun and an identity crisis we should be more concerned about.
One of the best examples of self-projection ever recorded!
Looking globally, not regionally, it is illogical to assume that a warmer “climate” (as if there is one single climate for the planet) will produce dryer air. Warmer climate means greater mass of water vapor in the atmosphere, which means a wetter climate. We all know, or should know, that when the earth has been cooler it has also been dryer, and vice versa.
In any event, food production is not a static output of any given condition of the climate, since it varies tremendously with both farming practices as well as evolving technology. The tech includes development of disease resistant and insect resistant and drought resistant food crops; improved water distribution with reduced losses to evaporation; improved plants that do a better job of converting sunlight and CO2 into plant food and therefore plant mass; improved storage and distribution of food crops to reduce spoilage and wastage; etc. etc. etc.
Why do so many awful ideas in the realm of political-philosophy originate in Germany? Could there be something in the water?
Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut gets recycled into the air.
Unfortunately.
Sauerkraut is very healthy, lot of vitamine C !
In earlier times, for sailors it was live saving.
But hte thinking is an old one still alive, “the world shall be healed by the german way”
Especially healthy in a nice fat Reuben sandwich, although I do prefer a spicy mustard to the traditional Russian dressing!
Unfortunately the sailors and explorers later went to rely on citrus juice not realising that the citrus form degrades quite quickly (like most plant vitamins this is not a complete vitamin, the body has to process it to make proper vitamin c). Most of their crews died of scurvy following this logic. Virtually no vit c and a high carb diet (ships biscuits) means the glut 4 transporter is being saturated with glucose making what little vit c (and you need so very little of it the study done on conscientious objectors found less than 10mg a day will easily keep scurvy away or perhaps even cure it not the 70-90mg they recommend as a minimum these days… and this study was on a high carb diet).
To cure troops of scurvy they were fed fresh horse meat and one artic explorer forgot the common wisdom of taking citrus with him and instead loaded up on what he liked which was meat and it was found that scurvy was drastically reduced in his team as a result.
Guessing at what they must have been as children I would say brat-worst..
They’ve lost the gift of free thought, and now they are prone to group mostly.
Potsdam Institute – stopped reading right at that point. They have form…..
Yeah, sure. You try to convince the continent of Africa to go vegetarian. Good luck with that.
Bill Gates is trying…. also tried vaccines that made african girls infertile too. Tetanus injections every year but only for child bearing age women…. nothing suss.
I want to see them grow veggies without water.
“covering croplands with straw”
does he know how that would be accomplished?
Surely it’s a fire risk….
I am always amazed when people fantasise about a water shortage especially in Australia. In Petra in Jordan the ancient civilisation 2000+ years ago designed its houses with guttering that would link up to a drainage system to a central cistern to supply the town with water. 2000 years later in Australia we allow water to flow from our houses into storm water drains and out to sea.In the last 100 years even though the population of our state Victoria has doubled we have not built any new dams and any attempts have been thwarted by Greenies. Then the climate alarmists came along and following drought conditions around 2005-8 we decided to spend billions on a desal plant and it hasn’t stopped raining since.Most other states did the same and except for Western Australia I don’t think any of the plants have been turned on.
The issue of water security in Australia has been woefully managed and if even a small amount of the money ploughed into renewables was diverted we could go a long way to solving any water shortage concerns permanently.
No, Western Australia built desal plants and plan more.
I agree water security is Aus is woefully managed mainly because it’s managed by the wrong people (organistions)
Sorry misread your statement
Here in US we have states taxing people for the amount of water their gutters collect, and more if you catch it and use it. Leftard, it is an apt description of these kinds of morons.
It wasn’t the greens that stopped dams being built in Victoria but Labor and its links to unions and the union bosses companies that did so, the greens were a handy scapegoat.
Who do you think got the contract to build those multi-billion dollar wastes of resources called desal plants down there? The companies were owned by union bosses and to make sure this went ahead the viable dam was legislated by Labor out of the race by them forcibly and suddenly naming the proposed site a ‘protected site’ with no benefit of an impact statement.
They could have also run a pipeline for a fraction of the cost from tasmanian’s north-west massive outflows to a Melbourne dam to keep it topped up, again not going to happen when Labor and grift are about.