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Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry
Socguy writes "According to a New Zealand scientist, Jim Salinger, the price of beer in and around Australia is going to be under increasing upward pressure as reductions in malting barley yields are experienced as a side effect of our ongoing climate shift.
"It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up," Mr. Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention."
At last we have a falsifiable AGW prediction. So if the barley yealds don't go down, that's a strike against AGW, right?
Or are we still discarding data that doesn't fit the theory?
Climate change is real.
What is fiction is the extent of man's impact on climate change.
Were there SUVs cruising around back when the glaciers that covered most of the northern U.S. retreated?
Was it coal burning power plants that lead to Greenland being, well, green and the actions of valiant environmentalist that replaced the glaciers there?
What about the climate shifts of the cretacious, cambrion and jurassic ages? Dinosaurs in Cadillacs to blame?
Corn is a poor choice for ethanol. If it was really about the ethanol and not massive subsidies and general price gouging, they wouldn't be using corn for fuel ethanol.
It's nice and all that you're concerned about ecology and conservation (well, not really, you seem concerned about THE ENVIRONMENT!), but I'd rather you were concerned for the right reasons and not the knee jerk reaction hype the media spews.
Umm, well since this global warming theory is still just a theory, how about we get some hard evidence before eviscerating companies? Read this: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=1b702e93-802a-23ad-406d-20a0e08818af and this: http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22434
The phrase "global warming" has quietly been replaced with "climate change" to cover the asses of the environmental alarmists in the event that their apocalyptic delusions don't come true. Answer me these questions, please:
1) What is the ideal average temperature of the Earth?
2) For what percent of the Earth's entire 4 billion+ year history has the Earth remained at this ideal temperature?
3) What can we do that will have any real, lasting effect on the Earth's climate, short of deindustrialization and depopulation? Please don't say Kyoto. That tired horse was long ago exposed for the fraud that it was when even Bill Clinton wouldn't get on board.
4) How will we know when we've won this battle with global warming, which seems to be even more nebulous than the war on terror or the war on drugs?
Thank you. Now please go about paying your indulgences, err, I mean "carbon credits" like a good little liberal.
TFG for the internet. Finally all these so-called "mainstream" liberals and leftists can have their religious doctrines not just exposed, but shattered, by real science. "Global warming" (now "global climate *change*") climatologists, socialist "economist" commentators are on the same intellectual level as creationists, even as they pad their resumes with churn and burn statistical fluff and self-congratulatory awards in academia. It's high time they were exposed. And these leftist wackos have no compunction whatsoever with instituting socialist government mandated behavior control on the reproduction choices of others, as evidenced by this little-Stalin I'm replying to talking about "fixing overpopulation".
That's why leftists constantly have to lie and make stuff up to try to be taken seriously. Because at heart they are petty jealous tyrants who don't value the freedom of others.
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