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In reply to the discussion: How will YOU survive global warming? [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)91. This isn't about predictions or whether Glen Beck said that Gore shouldn't fly on airplanes
because we can simply trust our own experience now. If people want to believe that this is just nature trying to roast and starve us fine but we still have to deal with it.
"Some stuff technically is not going to be worth the combine bill to harvest it," he said. "This is my 49th crop, and I have never had a year like this." Mike Buis, farmer.
Such individual calculations are replicated thousands of times across the 1,336 counties about a third of the country that are now officially a disaster zone, because of a brutal combination of triple-digit (40C) temperatures and prolonged drought. Scientists see both as evidence of climate change.
Such individual calculations are replicated thousands of times across the 1,336 counties about a third of the country that are now officially a disaster zone, because of a brutal combination of triple-digit (40C) temperatures and prolonged drought. Scientists see both as evidence of climate change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/22/americas-corn-farmers-dry-harvest
The troubles are threatening to multiply: dry weather in eastern Europe has dimmed wheat crop prospects in key grains-exporting countries including Russia and Kazakhstan, while a less-than-stellar monsoon in India threatens crops there, escalating the challenge for policymakers worldwide.
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There are good grounds to be concerned. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures have soared more than 50 percent in the past two months, and were trading just shy of a record on Tuesday. Soybeans are up nearly 30 percent since mid-June, but prices are 9 percent below a record reached last month.
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There are good grounds to be concerned. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures have soared more than 50 percent in the past two months, and were trading just shy of a record on Tuesday. Soybeans are up nearly 30 percent since mid-June, but prices are 9 percent below a record reached last month.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/usa-agriculture-idINL2E8J6ENL20120807
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Everyone move in together. Create co-operative living agreements. & WORK for a TAX ON FOSSIL FUELS,
patrice
Aug 2012
#1
The situation is "no pain, no gain" for most of us. Do or don't what you can about the Romneys of
patrice
Aug 2012
#24
Perhaps I am assuming more choice in the matter of who is and is not in a co-operative. It's called
patrice
Aug 2012
#33
It's been my experience that interpersonal politics trumps everything else..
Fumesucker
Aug 2012
#36
Gotta agree there. I've lived with roommates; in a small commune(the authoritarian was front
Nay
Aug 2012
#45
I do think in smaller terms & also with clearly laid out options up front, so that if, after a
patrice
Aug 2012
#77
I will do my best daily to make my footprint miniscule. I am old. My stay in hell won't
roguevalley
Aug 2012
#57
Do you have children? Family? Anyone you care about who will be here after you've gone?
patrice
Aug 2012
#4
I'm pretty intimately acquainted with death. & I have been saying exactly what you are saying here
patrice
Aug 2012
#29
Why do you assume that you have nothing that they need? Have you been in any or our nation's
patrice
Aug 2012
#94
at some point everyone gets the message to move on. Some take longer. no one wanted
roguevalley
Aug 2012
#60
Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies says work for a tax on fossil fuels - link:
patrice
Aug 2012
#3
I'm not sure that particular tax tactic is so much just about limiting damage as it is also about
patrice
Aug 2012
#76
Re what will be left for them to live through is why we need to be here to help them make the
patrice
Aug 2012
#19
I have been encouraging my family to learn the old skills like gardening, farming, etc. But I am not
jwirr
Aug 2012
#84
We were talking about those smaller separate kinds of arrangements when I worked in long-term-care,
patrice
Aug 2012
#92
Born in 1941 and have witnessed all the modern changes that effect us so completely now. Fortunately
jwirr
Aug 2012
#103
Thank you for considering what I am saying. I will admit my bias, I am helping the young people
patrice
Aug 2012
#27
It's not sci-fi. It's not even an engineering problem. It's a political problem.
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#64
It's not scifi- its science not being put to use on the scale it ought to be.
Marrah_G
Aug 2012
#100
I've already gotten rid of nearly all exotic landscaping plants that aren't drought-tolerant.
slackmaster
Aug 2012
#37
I agree with those who believe that the time when we could avoid catastrophe has passed
KurtNYC
Aug 2012
#69
Unfortuantly since many points made in "an inconvenient truth" were proven to be false or
crazyjoe
Aug 2012
#75
So you don't think the planet is warming, that man is directly responsible for the rapid...
truebrit71
Aug 2012
#86
This isn't about predictions or whether Glen Beck said that Gore shouldn't fly on airplanes
KurtNYC
Aug 2012
#91
Mother nature can be quite emphatic when reminding us who's really in charge.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2012
#90
I live in Canada so though our flora and fauna are chaging...I hope this summer drought
applegrove
Aug 2012
#126
My idea? let the Earth equilibrate. If an 80% decline in human population is necessary...
yawnmaster
Aug 2012
#128