Unit2Sucks said:
Cal88 said:
Lack of substance and ad hominem jabs aren't part of my register though.
No, your oevre is pretty clearly dry, repetitive misinformation.
It's "oeuvre", monsieur Unit Deux.
You qualify the content in my posts on the subject of AGW as misinformation, yet you are unable to refute simple data points I put forth here that happen to dispel MSM narratives, for example the fact that polar bears are nowhere near endangered, in fact their population has been thriving.
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We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
12 years ago, we had 12 years. Maybe this time they
really mean it?
Don't make me look up the UN/IPCC "we have 12 years" alarmist reports from the 1990s-00s.
...OK, since you insist, here's a good vintage UN statement circa 1982:
Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), warned on May 11, 1982, that the "world faces an ecological disaster as final as nuclear war within a couple of decades unless governments act now." According to Tolba, lack of action would bring
"by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust."Later that decade, in 1989, article in the San Jose Mercury News, Noel Brown, the then-director of the New York office of UNEP was warning of a "10-year window of opportunity to solve" global warming. "A senior U.N. environmental official said entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels
if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of 'eco-refugees,' threatening political chaos."
Actually. the world's major crops have gone up steadily, rice, wheat, corn and soy productions and inventories are at record levels, despite high growth in world demand, with the emergence of large middle classes in places like China or India. Part of the reason is that
crop yields have risen due to higher levels of CO2, which is a powerful plant fertilizer, increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis and reducing plant water loss.
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a leaked draft report from Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that man-made climate change would reduce global agricultural production yields by up to two percent per decade throughout the twenty-first century.
Lester Brown's Earth Policy Institute has long been a predictor of agricultural collapse. His website states, "climate change is heightening the likelihood of weather extremes, like heat waves, droughts, and flooding, that can so easily decimate harvests." Even the USDA warns that man-made climate change threatens US agriculture.
Yet, one must wonder when the climate-damaging effects on agriculture will appear. The IPCC states that 1983-2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period in the Northern Hemisphere of the last 1,400 years. Certainly we should have seen some negative agricultural impact by now?
Maybe rising agricultural production is like rising polar bear populations, the decline begins tomorrow.
