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There is a popular idea out there that climate change is a scam. The scam works like this: Scientists make up a bunch of research about the state of the world in order to obtain more grant money in order to invent more lies. The victims: helpless corporations, which would be forced to spend their last dollars polluting a little bit less. The winners: evil scheming scientists.
A new wrench in this already-not-entirely-logical idea: Wine regions are beginning to experience profound change. As detailed in a fascinating BBC travel story, studies indicate that the Napa Valley and Tuscany are going to take some big (possibly huge) hits to their productivity and quality over the next 30 years as temperatures and rain intensity increase. Meanwhile, not-normally-wine-powerhouses including Britain and Scandinavia are positioned to begin doing much better; English wineries are already starting to boom.
As evidence of global warming goes, it's not bulletproof unto itself, but it's not real reassuring, either.
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Some years are better and some years are not so ... and that's what happens in wine regions .. THe last few years in Napa it has been cooler leading to a later harvest ..
The earth's climate and weather are controlled by the sun, period ... The sun doesn't heat the earth the same way in the same places, it's dynamic and always changing. The earth has always gone through warm and cold periods and always will. Man Made global warming is a huge hoax designed to take control of everything that uses energy, namely everything the human does ...
This little piece is a perfect example of why some of us think climate change is a scam. The headline implies that wine regions are currently being affected. But the story is about what "will" happen. Yeah, we've heard that before. Models and theories and projections...oh my!
Or, is it less fog?... because scientists and their "climate models" are predicting that too:
"Declining fog cover on California's coast could leave the state's famous redwoods high and dry, a new study says."
"...climate change may be reducing this crucial fog cover. Though still poorly understood, climate change may be contributing to a decline in a high-pressure climatic system that...+READ
Or, is it less fog?... because scientists and their "climate models" are predicting that too:
"Declining fog cover on California's coast could leave the state's famous redwoods high and dry, a new study says."
"...climate change may be reducing this crucial fog cover. Though still poorly understood, climate change may be contributing to a decline in a high-pressure climatic system that usually "pinches itself" against the coast, creating fog, said study co-author James Johnstone, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100215-redwoods-california-global-warming/-COLLAPSE
Those "evil scientists" and their "computer models" are also predicting foggier summers for the Bay Area:
"The Bay Area just had its foggiest May in 50 years. And thanks to global warming, it's about to get even foggier."
http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-07-06/entertainment/17218478_1_warming-fog-vapor-cloud
Norton, like most leftists, can't help but beclowne himself whenever he spouts off about politics. Not only is his analogy flawed, it's utterly incorrect.
The discussion has never been whether or not the climate changes (it does, see the various Ice Ages, the Jurassic Age, and so on), it's about the veracity of the claims of the bureaucratic and academic leaches knowingly supporting the flawed...+READ
Norton, like most leftists, can't help but beclowne himself whenever he spouts off about politics. Not only is his analogy flawed, it's utterly incorrect.
The discussion has never been whether or not the climate changes (it does, see the various Ice Ages, the Jurassic Age, and so on), it's about the veracity of the claims of the bureaucratic and academic leaches knowingly supporting the flawed models of anthropomorphic climate change, and the various governments well established cycle of wastefully blowing billions of taxpayer monies on rent seeking agencies (see:Soylandra), and establishing more and more onerous regulations for humans to live under.
See this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/africa/in-scramble-for-land-oxfam-says-ugandans-were-pushed-out.html?_r=1-COLLAPSE
Climate = Slow changes over a very large area, over a long period of time.
Weather = What's happening outside right now.
Saying "Since it is cool out, there is no global average temperature increase" is like saying "I can't find my car keys, thus I don't own a car."
I'm not completely convinced as far as anthroprogenic global warming goes, but there is over-all warming. I'm not sure that we're causing it, but we certainly aren't helping. Imagine your doctor told you that you were 40% more likely to get lung cancer than the average person. Would you smoke on top of that? One way or another we should try to pollute as little as possible.
Also, when people...+READ
I'm not completely convinced as far as anthroprogenic global warming goes, but there is over-all warming. I'm not sure that we're causing it, but we certainly aren't helping. Imagine your doctor told you that you were 40% more likely to get lung cancer than the average person. Would you smoke on top of that? One way or another we should try to pollute as little as possible.
Also, when people cite regional cooling as evidence against warming the only thing they're demonstrating is a lack of understanding. The reason it was rechristened "climate change" was that over-all warming may result in drastic cooling in some areas. Britain, for example, will be in serious trouble if arctic melt slows the gulf stream.-COLLAPSE
If Chow continues to let James Norton's politics dominate his articles I will stop coming to this website.
Whenever I read an alarming article like this I ask myself "What does the actual temperature data show for the region?" "What does the empirical date show for the area" "What trends can be seen from the climate data " .
NASA has 100 years of temperature data from Napa State Hospital that shows that despite increasing levels of C02, temperatures have been decreasing in the area:...+READ
Whenever I read an alarming article like this I ask myself "What does the actual temperature data show for the region?" "What does the empirical date show for the area" "What trends can be seen from the climate data " .
NASA has 100 years of temperature data from Napa State Hospital that shows that despite increasing levels of C02, temperatures have been decreasing in the area: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425745160030&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1
The same is for Walla Walla Washington, another wine area quoted in the Stanford report, that shows no temperature trends in the area
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425727880040&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1-COLLAPSE
Meanwhile, take a look at what those in the wine industry are experiencing. From Steve Heinhoff ,West Coast Editor of Wine Enthusiast Magazine, and 2011 finalist for the best overall Wine Blog:
"We all know that last year, 2010, was the Year Without Summer. Now, 2011 is shaping up to be a repeat. In fact, the West Coast is now in the seventh year of a below-normal temperature pattern."
"I...+READ
Meanwhile, take a look at what those in the wine industry are experiencing. From Steve Heinhoff ,West Coast Editor of Wine Enthusiast Magazine, and 2011 finalist for the best overall Wine Blog:
"We all know that last year, 2010, was the Year Without Summer. Now, 2011 is shaping up to be a repeat. In fact, the West Coast is now in the seventh year of a below-normal temperature pattern."
"I wonder how long it’s going to be before the meteorological community declares that the West Coast of the United States is entering a Little Ice Age."
http://www.steveheimoff.com/index.php/2011/06/01/our-unusual-weather-climate-change-or-just-random/
This is NOT what the "climate models" have been predicting.-COLLAPSE
Most farmers will tell you that something is very different. They might say it's global warming but they know something is up.