climate change is poised to wreck Valentine’s Day, or at least change it significantly, by threatening chocolate production
Good point! Women generally don’t like neurotic men who fret over imaginary crap.
climate change is poised to wreck Valentine’s Day, or at least change it significantly, by threatening chocolate production
Good point! Women generally don’t like neurotic men who fret over imaginary crap.
Environmentalists seem to think that AGW causes a net death in good species (e.g. maple trees, chocolate plants), but a spread of bad species (e.g. West Nile virus, other tropical infections). Why is it that only the bad ones migrate and spread yet the good ones die off?
Influenza prefers cold weather (independent of the crowding of humans indoors which further facilitates viral transmission), and we would have thousands of fewer deaths per year from influenza if the climate warmed.
Influenza data: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
Note: there are many confounding variables (e.g. herd immunity from flu vaccine, better population hygiene and awareness, recent pandemic 2009 H1N1,…) involved here. The mild flu season is only partly due to the warmer temps.
Antarctic ice cores show 12C swings in temperature happening on a regular basis. All life on Earth must go extinct every few ten or twenty thousand years.
Steve, here’s your chance for you, me and all interested readers to send a Valentines Day heart felt wish to our favorite climate scientist(s). Apparently some group has organized an effort to help send love notes to climate scientists who they feel have been unfairly badgered and picked on. Andrew Freedman at Climate Central seems very giddy about it all.
‘The Perfect Time to Heart a Climate Scientist’
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/the-perfect-time-to-heart-a-climate-scientist