Climate change blog
I know I’ve recommended Judith Curry’s blog before, but I want to do it again because of what she’s written since the election on the issue of Donald Trump and AGW. Curry is one of the most objective and reasonable of the major climate scientists writing today, in an atmosphere in which objecitivty is no mean feat and requires no small amount of courage.
Huckabee, Newt and Conway, Trump sycophant all sounding like 10 year olds. Our camp vs Mitt.
This is the problem when Trump who spent more time bashing the Republican Party and when Romney, an adult Republican fits in as Sec of St.
The children become unhinged or perhaps that is what Trump wanted, passive aggression on Mitt.
Fundy Baptist preacher Huckabee has been on Romney’s case since the 2008 election bashing away. Huck usually seems like sour grapes when he speaks.
This should have been at the Romney article
Huckabee is not a fundamentalist.
I have been using Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD for my climatology sanity:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/
I prefer Dr. Norman Page. I used to follow
Dr. Douglas Hoyt, PhD atmospheric physics, but he quit blogging.
http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com/
It’s good to keep up with the latest thinking in the climate change field and there are some excellent blogs out there. Thank goodness.
Castro’s death pushed me to look at some of Cuba’s history under El Commandante. Of particular interest to people engaged in the climate change debate is the time known as the Special Period when they lost the support of the USSR (Due to the financial failure of the USSR) and subsequently were without sufficient fossil fuels to produce enough food for their people. It is instructive as to the proven needs for fossil fuels for modern people to maintain anything above a subsistence standard of living. To read about it here’s a link to a wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period
Or another at the Huffpo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miriam-leiva/periodo-especial-forever-_b_10993622.html
A living, breathing example of what happens especially on an island that has no petroleum and must export enough products to pay for imported fossil fuels.
The Agenda 21 to restrict or phase out fossil fuels is totally unrealistic if today’s living standards are to be maintained. That is what’s at stake in the climate change debate.
Interesting information in the wiki link, JJ. I wonder whether this is behind the left’s push for sustainable, organic, local food. I’ve often wondered why the emphasis on it, and if you look at the end goal of eliminating fossil fuels, then it makes sense to re-jigger our agricultural practices/expectations prior to the actual elimination.
But food consumption going to 1/5 of the previous intake? Shocking. Makes me want to up my preps considerably.
I wonder whether this is behind the left’s push for sustainable, organic, local food.
It’s not the Left pushing for it entirely.
One theory I heard is that corn, gmo, Roundup, and Gluten are linked together in modern farming, which causes metabolism problems. And the way just on time shipping works, the fruit that is harvested is unripe and so doesn’t contain the optimal level of nutrients. They are GMO or tailored, plus lots of water added, to make them look ripe by the time they get to market but has about 2/3rds of the nutrition.
Much of this is similar to the High Fructose Corn Syrup line, where the Doctor Classes once claimed that it is indistinguishable from organic sugar cause of chemical chains. Well Doctor Classes claimed a lot of things, including nutritional content about fat and carbs and that whole “pyramid of food” thing.
The thing about GMO, like any human technology, is that they aren’t necessarily always used for good.
It can be used to cure famine in Africa, yes. But it can also be used for other things.