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by Brendan O'Neill 14 January 2011

Climate Depot Editorial
 

INTERESTING - READ TO THE BOTTOM
 
Global Warming?
 
The Washington Post

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some  places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to  the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922.  It was reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 88 years ago!
 

'Last thing America can afford is to lock away our own resources' 

By Gene Koprowski
13 January 2011

New House Energy Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., and his GOP colleagues figure the best environmental policy is for Congress to overturn the Obama EPA's greenhouse-gas regulations, and he's moving forward on that front, assembling a new legal team with the expertise to combat the rules critics describe as overreaching, WND has learned.

President Obama's policies have been "job killing," Upton told WND, and his committee will "take the lead" in the new Congress and "foster a new era of job growth, fight rampant regulations, fortify our energy security, cut spending and reduce the size of government."

The Democrats last year tried but failed to pass a law to limit greenhouse gases and enable companies to buy and sell pollution permits, an idea known as "cap and trade." Conservatives call the plan "cap and tax" because it would raise energy prices. The measure passed former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House, even nabbing a vote from Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., but was not brought to a vote in the Senate.

Read full article at:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=250657#ixzz1Az4eZqz0 

Dear Editor,

                     Gwynne Dyer ( Worldwatch 12/01/11) makes his usual sense – nonsense, that is !

There are indeed projections that show the population growing by 35% to 9 Billion and beyond – these being one basis for the IPCC’s dire climate change predictions. Other estimates show a downturn after 2050.

However, as the population grows so does humankind’s generation of CO₂ – with estimates of a doubling by century’s end; but this requires that every scrap of the world’s energy-store be burned (oil, gas, coal, wood, cow-dung ….)

Over 600 studies (bracketed figures) have been published on the effect of increasing CO₂ on food plant yields :-

-       Wheat yields (235) increase by 32.1 ± 1.8 %

-       Rice (182) by 34.4 ± 1.8 %

-       Soybean (179) by 46.5 ± 2.8 %

-       Maize (20) by 21.3 ± 4.9 %

These are the four biggest crops in calorific terms, and will obviously keep pace with population growth, entirely due to CO₂ emission increase (which is why commercial greenhouses often use CO₂-enriched air at 900-1000 ppm.).

In addition, such improved yields require appreciably less water as plants don’t have to open as many stomata. Not that this poses a problem as the prophesized global warming inevitably brings more rain …..

Dave Finney, Matua