New Unified Field Theory
Albert Einstein's dream is now a reality. We have a new unified field theory: Global Warming causes everything bad. Via Tom Nelson and American Thinker, comes this list by Dr. John Brignell of links to articles in the media attributing various bad things to Global Warming. Currently, his list has over 600 items! Some excerpts:
Agricultural
land increase, Africa
devastated, African
aid threatened, Africa
hit hardest, air
pressure changes, Alaska
reshaped, , Alps
melting, Amazon
a desert, American
dream end, amphibians
breeding earlier (or not), ancient
forests dramatically changed, animals
head for the hills, Antarctic
grass flourishes, anxiety,
algal
blooms, archaeological
sites threatened, Arctic
bogs melt, Arctic
in bloom, Arctic
lakes disappear, asthma,
Atlantic
less salty, Atlantic
more salty...
itchier poison ivy, jellyfish
explosion, Kew
Gardens taxed, kitten boom,
krill
decline, lake
and stream productivity decline, lake
shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides
of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits
increase, lawsuit successful,
lawyers'
income increased (surprise surprise!), lightning
related insurance claims, little
response in the atmosphere, lush
growth in rain forests, Lyme
disease, Malaria,
malnutrition, mammoth
dung melt, Maple syrup
shortage...wheat
yields crushed in Australia, white
Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind
shift, wind
reduced,
wine - harm
to Australian industry, wine
industry damage (California),
wine industry disaster (US),
wine - more
English, wine
-German boon, wine
- no
more French , winters
in Britain colder, wolves
eat more moose, wolves
eat less, workers laid
off, World
bankruptcy, World
in crisis, World
in flames, Yellow
fever.
All I can say is:
David B:
To be fair, a couple of those look like good effects: if Germany becomes a better wine producer, that could be a good thing...
But yeah, I'm with you.
November 29, 2007, 11:46 amtim:
Echochondriac - just like a hypochondriac only about the environment.
November 29, 2007, 3:44 pmMesa Econoguy:
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November 29, 2007, 6:59 pmMacquechoux:
Mr. Coyote, I recently ran across this:
http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2008/05/falsifiability-question.html
Leland, a frequent contributor to The Oil Drum and staunch believer in man made global warming made the following comment.
"It's written by someone working in the climate science field. (He's apparently at tu, but I'll try not to hold it against him. ;-) It's a short and interesting piece about why AGW is not really a theory, and what evidence it would take to make him change his mind about it.
Unfortunately, I fear the average denialist just wouldn't understand it."
I've always admired your critical thinking ability coupled with your skills in analysis and logic and would appreciate for you at your leisure to analyze the climate scientist's statement. I believe it would make a good cross post over at the Climate Skeptic.
Side bar:
Leland, in my opinion, is like many true believers. He tends to see global warming as an either black or white issue; there are no shades of gray. Not only is global warming it is caused by man. Period and amen.
August 23, 2008, 8:47 am