Month: May 2010

Gloabal warming and food production

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS            1980 PART II Chapter 4: The Return of the Dust Bowl (Continued) Wheat, rust, and prickly pears Wheat is the second most important US grain and comprises about 17% of our total grain production. There are seven different monthly mean precipitation and temperature variables that significantly influence …

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Global Warming, climate change, weather extremes

THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS            1999 PART III Chapter 3: Ice Ages and Greenhouse Gases (Continued) Carbon dating Between 1850 and 1986, the burning of fossil fuels released nearly 200 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere and deforestation to convert land for agriculture added another 120 gigatonnes. …

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Global warming, climate change, weather extremes

THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS            1999 PART II Chapter 1: The Nature and History of Climate (continued) Climate and misery The change to a less hospitable climate appears to have come abruptly. The late medieval period was marked by colder weather which was most severe during the …

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Global warming, climate change, weather extremes

2010 Diary week 19 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part II of The Breakdown of Climate points out that “The decade 1310-20 was disastrous, especially in Northern Europe. Wet, miserable summers meant that crops failed to ripen and millions of people starved.” “In Scotland in the 1430s, as in Sweden, successive …

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THE BREAKDOWN OF CLIMATE HUMAN CHOICES OR GLOBAL DISASTER? PETER BUNYARD FLORIS BOOKS            1999 PART I Introduction The modern world Today we live in a man-made world that we isolate as far as possible from the elements. Ironically, our attempts to control our immediate environment have exacerbated the very problem we are trying to avoid …

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