Hey folks,
Happy Friday to you. I love this one. Since it IS Friday, it's time to go to the Emails. This one was sent in by BG, who included this note:"You have to read the list of things global warming has caused, it is a hoot!"
Here it is.
Global Warming Ate My Homework: 100 Things Blamed on Global Warming
Cap and trade proposes a new national tax of historic proportions
By Jack Spencer
Late for a party? Miss a meeting? Forget to pay your rent? Blame climate change; everyone else is doing it. From an increase in severe acne to all societal collapses since the beginning of time, just about everything gone wrong in the world today can be attributed to climate change. Here’s a list of 100 storylines blaming climate change as the problem.
The deaths of Aspen trees in the West
Incredible shrinking sheep
Caribbean coral deaths
Eskimo’s forced to leave their village
Disappearing lake in Chile
Early heat wave in Vietnam
Malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa
Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
Break in the Arctic Ice Shelf
Monsoons in India
Birds laying their eggs early
160,000 deaths a year
315,000 deaths a year
300,000 deaths a year
Decline in snowpack in the West
Deaths of walruses in Alaska
Hunger in Nepal
The appearance of oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans
Surge in fatal shark attacks
Increasing number of typhoid cases in the Philippines
Boy Scout tornado deaths
Rise in asthma and hayfever
Duller fall foliage in 2007
Floods in Jakarta
Radical ecological shift in the North Sea
Snowfall in Baghdad
Western tree deaths
Diminishing desert resources
Pine beetles
Swedish beetles
Severe acne
Global conflict
Crash of Air France 447
Black Hawk Down incident
Amphibians breeding earlier
Flesh-eating disease
Global cooling
Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
Beer tastes different
Cougar attacks in Alberta
Suicide of farmers in Australia
Squirrels reproduce earlier
Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya
Confusion of migrating birds
Bigger tuna fish
Water shortages in Las Vegas
Worldwide hunger
Longer days
Earth spinning faster
Gender balance of crocodiles
Skin cancer deaths in UK
Increase in kidney stones in India
Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
Deaths of Minnesota moose
Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
Increase of wasps in Alaska
Killer stingrays off British coasts
All societal collapses since the beginning of time
Bigger spiders
Increase in size of giant squid
Increase of orchids in UK
Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
Cow infertility
Conflict in Darfur
Bluetongue outbreak in UK cows
Worldwide wars
Insomnia of children worried about global warming
Anxiety problems for people worried about climate change
Migration of cockroaches
Taller mountains due to melting glaciers
Drowning of four polar bears
UFO sightings in the UK
Hurricane Katrina
Greener mountains in Sweden
Decreased maple in maple trees
Cold wave in India
Worse traffic in LA because immigrants moving north
Increase in heart attacks and strokes
Rise in insurance premiums
Invasion of European species of earthworm in UK
Cold spells in Australia
Increase in crime
Boiling oceans
Grizzly deaths
Dengue fever
Lack of monsoons
Caterpillars devouring 45 towns in Liberia
Acid rain recovery
Global wheat shortage; food price hikes
Extinction of 13 species in Bangladesh
Changes in swan migration patterns in Siberia
The early arrival of Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas
Radical North Sea shift
Heroin addiction
Plant species climbing up mountains
Deadly fires in Australia
Droughts in Australia
The demise of California’s agriculture by the end of the century
Tsunami in South East Asia
Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe
And the list goes on. The truth is climate change is causing some of these events, but the earth’s average temperature has been increasing and decreasing since the beginning of time. Maybe the increase in UFO sightings can’t be pinpointed to climate change but certainly animals will adapt to new habitats as the climate changes. But climate change and adaptation to it is nothing new. There’s an underlying assumption that human activity is causing the climate to change in many of these stories, but the scientific consensus on what causes climate change is anything but a consensus. Temperatures have risen and fallen many times before and the earth was cooling as recently as the period from the 1940s to the 1970s giving rise to fears of a coming ice age:
“At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."
The other implication of this list is that a reduction in Co2 with cap and trade policies like Waxman-Markey and Boxer-Kerry will cure problems as disparate as hurricanes, wars, crime, hunger and…cow infertility. The problem is that no one can actually claim that a reduction of Co2 will prevent these occurrences; one can only speculate that they will be worse in a world that has more rather than less Co2. Given cap and trade’s massive economic consequences and negligible effects on the earth’s temperature, this is a bold and potentially very costly speculation.
Katie Brown co-authored this post.
{Laughing} Yeah, I know. But the Kooks really believe this stuff. Have a great Weekend everyone. See you Sunday for the Big Sunday Edition.
Peter
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