Pooka
04-18-07, 08:25 PM
By Mark Rushton
Apr 17 2007
All this talk about global warming, and about the potential for food shortages has almost got me digging a root cellar in the back 40.
It seems that B.C. produces about 48 per cent of the food consumed here, and with global warming and the price of fuel we soon won’t be getting those Christmas strawberries from California.
In fact neither will the Californians if the climate gurus are correct, because they won’t have any water to feed the crops.
Which means of course that British Columbia farmers will be sending more of our produce south, leaving even less for us starving folks. Because no matter what happens in warming trends, you can bet your gumboots the one thing that won’t stop here is the rain. And the decision on who gets the food is based on one thing – the price someone is willing to pay.
So if you’re worried, better rush out to sign up for canning and pickling and growing veggies classes, and turning that spare bedroom into a pantry.
And if you think that is going to happen real soon, I’ve got some potential waterfront property for sale too.
The warming trends we are all worrying about now began about 10,000 years ago, when where I’m sitting was under about 3,000 feet of ice. And before that, what we know as Alaska was tropical – where else did all that oil come from? Back then everyone (well the animals at least) was probably worrying like hell about the “colding” trends.
Yes, the polar ice caps are melting like crazy. But our old earth has been there before, flooding the northern land bridge that connected our continents.
And despite our self-importance, the collective “we” has only been keeping temperature records for the last hundred years or so … so truly do we know what we are talking about, or is this just another scientific “flavour of the month”? Remember “the ozone layer”?
Did the ancient Egyptians built all those pyramids in the desert? That area was a lush garden back then. And we think we have global warming today!
Now let’s be clear … we are polluting like hell, and we have to stop. Not just to cut down on the “greenhouse gases” but to keep our air breathable for as long as we can. But are we experiencing some drastic change that will forever alter the face of the earth? Probably, and perhaps eventually life as we know it will come to an end. Remember the dinosaurs, the woolly mammoths, the Neaderthals, the world before Christianity (oh right, a whole lot of that still exists).
About 110 years ago, no one even knew what cars were, let alone SUVs. But even if we all switch to Smart Cars or electrics, or just walk, we will not change what is happening to the earth because it is just doing what it has always done – change.
It and it’s varied climate has been around for a billion years or so. We’ve only been here, in our current form, for about the blink of an eyelash.
On the other hand, about that waterfront property!
Source (http://www.abbynews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=38&cat=48&id=964186&more=)
Apr 17 2007
All this talk about global warming, and about the potential for food shortages has almost got me digging a root cellar in the back 40.
It seems that B.C. produces about 48 per cent of the food consumed here, and with global warming and the price of fuel we soon won’t be getting those Christmas strawberries from California.
In fact neither will the Californians if the climate gurus are correct, because they won’t have any water to feed the crops.
Which means of course that British Columbia farmers will be sending more of our produce south, leaving even less for us starving folks. Because no matter what happens in warming trends, you can bet your gumboots the one thing that won’t stop here is the rain. And the decision on who gets the food is based on one thing – the price someone is willing to pay.
So if you’re worried, better rush out to sign up for canning and pickling and growing veggies classes, and turning that spare bedroom into a pantry.
And if you think that is going to happen real soon, I’ve got some potential waterfront property for sale too.
The warming trends we are all worrying about now began about 10,000 years ago, when where I’m sitting was under about 3,000 feet of ice. And before that, what we know as Alaska was tropical – where else did all that oil come from? Back then everyone (well the animals at least) was probably worrying like hell about the “colding” trends.
Yes, the polar ice caps are melting like crazy. But our old earth has been there before, flooding the northern land bridge that connected our continents.
And despite our self-importance, the collective “we” has only been keeping temperature records for the last hundred years or so … so truly do we know what we are talking about, or is this just another scientific “flavour of the month”? Remember “the ozone layer”?
Did the ancient Egyptians built all those pyramids in the desert? That area was a lush garden back then. And we think we have global warming today!
Now let’s be clear … we are polluting like hell, and we have to stop. Not just to cut down on the “greenhouse gases” but to keep our air breathable for as long as we can. But are we experiencing some drastic change that will forever alter the face of the earth? Probably, and perhaps eventually life as we know it will come to an end. Remember the dinosaurs, the woolly mammoths, the Neaderthals, the world before Christianity (oh right, a whole lot of that still exists).
About 110 years ago, no one even knew what cars were, let alone SUVs. But even if we all switch to Smart Cars or electrics, or just walk, we will not change what is happening to the earth because it is just doing what it has always done – change.
It and it’s varied climate has been around for a billion years or so. We’ve only been here, in our current form, for about the blink of an eyelash.
On the other hand, about that waterfront property!
Source (http://www.abbynews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=38&cat=48&id=964186&more=)