New Bush global warming strategy -- reduce America's ability to measure climate change. After all, if you don't know the planet's getting warmer, then things are okay, right? It's like a tree falling in the wilderness with nobody there to hear it.
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04 Jun 2007 05:31 pm
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One of the most infuriating thing about the Bush/GOP climate change non-policy is that they have constantly called for more research and information before any action is taken...and then with the other hand have totally pulled the budgetary rug out from under the necessary science and observation programs at NASA, NOAA, etc. As someone who works in the realm of science advocacy, it's really gratifying to finally see this disconnect get some play.
Do other countries (or the EU) have climate-tracking satellites? Seems to me as long as *somebody's* collecting the data -- doesn't have to be the US -- scientists will still be able to do their thing, no? If not, I welcome being disabused of my ignorance.
well, yeah, or like a tree falling in the forest that nobody will hear until it destroys trillions of dollars in coastal-city real-estate and displaces billions of coastal dwellers. like that.
Rising oceans are more dramatic. Crop failures are where the real action will be.
Re: Rising oceans are more dramatic. Crop failures are where the real action will be.
I doubt we will see major crop failures (minor crop failures involving fairly finicky specialty plants are a real possibility) The staple crops are all adapted to fairly wide raneg of climate conditions simply because they have been bred for this for millennia (and would not have become major staples if they could adapt). Add genetic engineering into the picture and I think that corn, wheat, rice, sorghum, beans, potatoes, squash/gourds, cotton along with the major tropicals will be with us for the long haul.
See, we're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
Drought matters. If drought hits corn in the days prior to tasseling, yield can be reduced 25% even if rain is normal through the rest of the growing season. Due to AGW, we are facing increased drought across vast areas which now receive regular rainfall & desertification across land that's now marginal.
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The administration also axed some natl economic survey a few days ago. Call them the Schultz presidency.
Posted by sherifffruitfly | June 4, 2007 6:14 PM