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Lord Beria3 · Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 3523 Location: Moscow Russia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2084106/Human-carbon-emissions-lethal-Ice-Age-say-scientists.html

RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 12248 Location: York

Possible. But an acid, or for that matter rising, sea would stuff the lot of us, farmers or no.
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fifthcolumn · Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 2488

Ignoring "acidification of the oceans" which is the newest bugbear and raison-du-jour why we need to stop burning fossil fuels according to the all-wise greenies, the world will be both wetter and warmer if we have extra co2 and/or methane in the atmosphere thus it's likely that if-it-were-consistent then crop yields would be better across the board rather than worse.

The question is: will they be consistent or will we be seeing more randomness and more storms?

RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 12248 Location: York

I take it the oil industry pays well Smile

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extractorfan · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 985 Location: Ricky

I've read that although the world will be wetter in terms of rainfall it will be in the form of deluges rather than that nice kind of rain, the small stuff that gets you really wet Smile

More heat in the system means more energy so more violence.

RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 12248 Location: York

Yup that's about the size of it. And one of the differences I've noticed between now and in my younger days. It's windier, too.
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woodburner · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 2377

Well, the report was in the Daily Mail.

I wonder if the report finished with ".....more research is needed".

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:25 am Post subject:

As a farmer working in a warming climate I'm wondering where the rain has gone not where we're going to put it all. I've had to reduce the number of stock that I keep because the grass isn't growing as well as it used to. My tatties and carrots aren't as big as they used to be because there isn't as much rain. There might be more rain in general but it won't necessarily be falling in the places where it used to fall. Beware!
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UndercoverElephant · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:19 am Post subject:

"lethal new ice age" is a misleading, or meaningless term.

"Lethal" how? To who or what? And where?

The planet as a whole, and humanity on average, would be better off if there was another major glaciation. Northern Europe would become uninhabitable, but globally the oceans would be more productive and more land (productive sort) would be exposed by falling sea levels than would be lost to the ice.

extractorfan · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 985 Location: Ricky