October 19, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Yesterday it was coffee. Now, climate change (hoax) threatens tea. There could be riots in England if they read about it Production of tea in Assam – one of the world’s largest tea producing regions – is on a slow decline, thanks to changing climate in the Brahmaputra river basin. This has been revealed by […]
October 18, 2011 – 2:04 pm
It’s so terrible! Everybody panic!!!!!!! (UK Guardian) Forget about super-sizing into the trenta a few years from now: Starbucks is warning of a threat to world coffee supply because of climate change. In a telephone interview with the Guardian, Jim Hanna, the company’s sustainability director, said its farmers were already seeing the effects of a […]
October 18, 2011 – 10:08 am
It’s terrible, really, really, really terrible. I’m not quite sure why it’s terrible, the story doesn’t say what the problem with species shrinking actually is (unless you plan to eat tiny birds), but, I assume it is somehow terrible and foreboding and means the End Of Life On Earth! (USA Today) From the mighty polar […]
October 15, 2011 – 8:37 am
Thanks to Tim Blair for digging this one up (via Tom Nelson) (Digital Journal) Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about half a billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global […]
October 13, 2011 – 8:41 am
We’re dooooooomed (IBT) Imagine a world without chocolate. Chocolate is definitely slated to become a luxurious commodity if steps are not taken to halt the impact of global warming. This has been emphasized in new findings by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). The CIAT study reveals that if preventive measures are not taken, […]
October 7, 2011 – 1:09 pm
Yet another scary story from the Warmist crowd that sounds more like a Madam Zelda prediction, via Mother Jones Can climate change cause or intensify earthquakes? Christopher Mims wrote about some of the science on this subject back in March, after the Japanese quake. This set the collective panties of climate skeptics a-bunching, chafed at […]
October 3, 2011 – 7:43 pm
We’re doomed (NY Times) Some 1,000 years ago, the Chinese named this city “Shanghai” based on its location. It literally means “above the sea.” Those pioneers probably never imagined the situation that confronts this city today: Shanghai is on its way to being below the sea. Climate change is pushing up the sea level globally. […]
September 14, 2011 – 7:05 pm
Yes, that’s today! At 7 p.m. EST tonight, The Climate Reality Project, a campaign to raise awareness about the causes and possible solutions for global warming, will begin streaming videos from around the world for 24 Hours of Reality. Each hour a different presenter from around the world will talk about how the effects of […]
September 8, 2011 – 8:07 am
And we get to learn about this from yet another unhinged film Abel Ferrara made his new film “4:44 Last Day on Earth” to serve as a wake-up call to humanity over impending ecological disasters. The movie, by the director of 1992’s “Bad Lieutenant,” focuses largely on one couple — played by Willem Dafoe and […]
August 18, 2011 – 10:11 pm
Sharks attacks are up because of humans. Know why? An apparent increase in shark attacks may well have a human cause, with low-cost air travel but also over-fishing and possibly global warming among the hidden suspects, say experts. See, it can’t just be because of over-fishing, dumping animal carcases off of ships (that’s in the […]