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| Aussie farmers must adapt or perish in warmer world (Is complete BS) |
| 2004-11-11 |
| This stuff drives me nuts. Australian farmers face a future climate that is drier, with more extremes of droughts and floods and an ability to adapt swiftly will be the key to the industry's survival, scientists say. Australia is the world's most arid inhabited continent. But farmers, through trial and error and a lot of pain and suffering, have turned the country into one of the world's breadbaskets whose wheat and meat exports are worth about A$8 billion (3.25 billion pounds) a year. Global warming and predictions of rapid climate change, however, are likely to mean more pain and challenges for Australia's grain, grazing and irrigation industries, says Mark Howden of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Sustainable Ecosystems division. "There will be winners and losers but it depends on where you are," said Howden, a senior researcher at CSIRO. For example, there has been a sharp decline in rainfall since the 1970s in Western Australia, where about 40 percent of Australia's wheat crop is grown. This is just not true according to the CSIROs own figures and conclusions, the south west is not getting drier and Western Australia overall is getting wetter - Link to CSIRO data. The big news this year is how cold its been and late frosts have severly impacted the wheat crop, but thats not the MSM agenda and doesn't get mentioned. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #4 "Meme me baby one more time!" - Britney Spears / Travis (much better and funny, IMHO, lol!) |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-11 5:30:10 PM |
| #3 Kyoto, baby. It's all about Kyoto. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-11 5:26:07 PM |
| #2 Stephen, I'm aware the primary determinant of climate cycles is solar radiation. I don't know what its like in the USA, but we are constantly bombarded with the message our climate is getting drier and people look at me in disbelief when I tell them its not true. The interesting question is why the media, governments, and a significant section of the scientific community need to conspire in order to peddle this nonsense. I have to conclude that Kyoto has become a crucial test of Tranzi credibility. Hopefully, the day is not to far off when they have to fess up and admit the trillions (literally) of dollars Kyoto is costing is a massive waste (and could have been spent on something worthwhile). |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-11-11 4:06:56 PM |
| #1 phil_b, It seems the planet Mars is also going thru a warm spell,with polar icecaps melting. Since car emissions,industrial pollution or cow farts have limited effectiveness on the Martian climate,what could possibly cause two planets to experience a warming spell? Maybe the activities of the star they revolve around? But since the envirocrats can't regulate the Sun,or blame its actions on the US,they will just ignore it. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-11-11 12:35:58 PM |