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Climate Change farce... The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 9/8/22 by WALTER784; 24858 views.
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From: WALTER784
May-13
More Ivy League Nonsense: Dartmouth Study Suggests Rise in Home Runs Is Due to Climate Change
By Jim Hoft
Apr. 12, 2023 10:15 am
The existential threat of manmade global warming continues to threaten Americans. The number of Americans who died last year from global warming/climate change hit another plateau last year with Zero deaths matching the previous year’s number.
Now researchers at the once-acclaimed Dartmouth College are suggesting the global warming is causing more home runs.
They won’t stop with this nonsense until they collapse the US energy sector.
Who pays for this nonsense, China? They certainly benefit from this nonsense. They get more windmill contracts.
CNS News reported:
A new Dartmouth study concludes that climate change, in the form of global warming, has been increasing the number of home runs hit in Major League Baseball (MLB) games.
“[C]ould baseball be on the cusp of a “climate-ball” era where higher temperatures due to global warming increasingly determine the outcome of a game? A new Dartmouth study suggests it may be,” Dartmouth says on the university’s website.
The study, “Global warming, home runs, and the future of America’s pastime,” published Friday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, concludes that climate change has produced more than five hundred extra home runs since 2010.
The study’s researchers go on to predict that several hundred additional home runs will be hit – per season – due to climate change, in the years to come.
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
May-13
Climate Cultists Blame Global Warming on Rice
By Cristina Laila
Apr. 17, 2023 10:35 pm
The climate change cultists are now blaming global warming on rice fields.
The far-left green zealots and globalists want the peasants eating bugs and living in a pod.
“Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored.” AFP reported.
“Rice, which sets them apart from other crops, has a standing water layer in the field, which means there’s not exchange of air between the soil and the atmosphere,” Bjoern Ole Sander of the International Rice Research Institute said. “So that means you have in the soil anaerobic conditions, and that means there are different bacterias active in the soil than you would find in wheat or maize.”
“Under the global methane pledge, Vietnam and several other major rice producers in Asia have vowed to cut emissions by 30% by 2020 and 2023, but the two largest producers, China and India, failed to sign,” AFP reported.
Red meat is bad, cows are bad and now rice is bad.
They want us to starve.
VIDEO: Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored. pic.twitter.com/46GgkaGPgK
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 16, 2023
Climate Cultists Blame Global Warming on Rice | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
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Staff
From: WALTER784
May-13
Reading the above two articles, if climate change is due to home runs then it's not the rice... and if it's due to the rice, then it's not due to the home runs.
However, it could be due to something entirely different than either home runs or rice... (i.e. like natural mother nature) of which we have no control over and as such, no amount of money we spend will correct anything!
FWIW
Host
From: Showtalk
May-13
They blame rice for everything. Who eats the most rice? Asian countries. That alone is racist. Mark Levin debunked the home run nonsense. He’s a huge baseball fan. He said they made the stadium fields smaller and the balls lighter, so they travel higher and farther, and are more easily hit over the fence.
Staff
From: WALTER784
May-20
Did you know that if we get rid of capitalism and racism that global temperatures will drop?
At least Trudeau's Canada Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos thinks so.
Trudeau’s public health agency blames ‘climate change’ on ‘capitalism’ and ‘racism’
'Systemic drivers of negative health outcomes and climate change overlap,' reads the report. 'White supremacy, capitalism, colonialism and racism must be addressed.'
Jack Bingham
Fri Apr 21, 2023 - 1:13 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A bizarre new report published by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Public Health Agency seeks to draw a link between “negative health outcomes” and “climate change,” a phenomenon it blames on “white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism and racism.”
The report, titled What We Heard: Perspectives On Climate Change And Public Health In Canada, was published Monday and was based on interviews with 30 academics and experts, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Systemic drivers of negative health outcomes and climate change overlap,” the report stated. “White supremacy, capitalism, colonialism and racism must be addressed.”
READ: Climate analysts try to hide inconvenient data showing weather-related deaths down 98%
“These core drivers of climate change — extraction, capitalism and colonialism — were described as the root of polarization and fragmentation witnessed recently in public health,” continued the report, adding that the “key messages we heard underscored that public health and climate change require a focus on decolonizing, justice and equity, adequate funding, political commitment and cross-sectoral partnerships with the expectation that fundamental changes in our socioeconomic structures are needed to rebuild our relationships with each other and with our planet.”
Continuing, the report stated that people “living in Canada depend on a healthy environment and equitable access to it,” and explained that the experts said the only way access will be improved is by “addressing systemic issues, i.e. capitalism, colonialism and racism which drive common inequitable outcomes for public health and nature.”
On the industry front, the authors of the report also relayed that many of the “experts” criticized Canada’s natural resource sectors, including oil, gas, and mining.
“Several [experts] described how denial and disinformation are currently being supported by powerful groups that have vested interests in not making changes to adapt to and mitigate climate change such as the fossil fuel industry,” wrote the authors.
Lastly, the report also raised the alarm about the possibility of “climate refugees” in the near future, a term used to describe people who flee their homelands due to radical changes in weather patterns.
“Experts recognized there are and will be many challenges around climate refugees as climate change intensifies,” the report stated. “Yet only a few of the experts discussed ways in which public health needs to develop structured plans to prepare for and support both internal and cross-border climate refugees who experience diverse health effects.”
While the link between “climate change” and racism or capitalism may seem dubious to even some of those who promote the mainstream environmental narrative, this is not the first time such a link has been made.
As noted by The Daily Sceptic‘s Chris Morrison, one of Britain’s leading voices on the climate, Professor Kevin Anderson, has similarly called for “radical societal restructuring” as a solution to climate change.
Morrison has also noted that in 2020, two University College London geography professors, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis, argued that colonization and racism are directly linked to the climate “emergency.”
Morrison argues that this is because the climate change agenda is not a scientific one, but a political one, with its “underlying” message being one that is “hard-core Marxist.”
Morrison evidences his argument by pointing to myriad recent studies that either diminish, or outright contradict, the claims of climate activists, particularly when it comes to the link between carbon dioxide (CO2) output and “global warming.”
Most notably, Morrison points to the lack of temperature
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Staff
From: WALTER784
May-21
Carbon dioxide, nitrogen and climate change are greening the Earth
BY RHODA WILSON
MAY 11, 2023
Carbon Dioxide (“CO2”), also known as “nature’s fertilizer,” has steadily been enriching Earth’s atmosphere, from 320 parts per million in 1970 to 365 parts in 2000, to more than 412 parts today. The evidence of a flourishing planet is plain to see, thanks to satellite imagery that has been monitoring the amount of greenery on the planet since 1979.
As noted in a 2016 Nature study that tracked the changes from 1982 to 2016, although Earth lost some tree cover where forests became farmlands, those losses were far exceeded by new forests. Overall, since 1982, Earth’s tree cover increased by 2.24 million square kilometres, an addition to nature’s bounty of 7.1 per cent.
CO2 fertilisation is only one, albeit a predominant, reason why the Earth is greening. The study also identified climate change, nitrogen fertilisation and land management as other important reasons.
The abstract of the study noted:
Here we use three long-term satellite leaf area index (LAI) records and ten global ecosystem models to investigate four key drivers of LAI trends during 1982–2009.
We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4% of the globe shows decreasing LAI (browning).
Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilisation effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend, followed by nitrogen deposition (9%), climate change (8%) and land cover change (LCC) (4%).
CO2 fertilization effects explain most of the greening trends in the tropics, whereas climate change resulted in greening of the high latitudes and the Tibetan Plateau. LCC contributed most to the regional greening observed in southeast China and the eastern United States.
Zhu, Z., Piao, S., Myneni, R. et al. Greening of the Earth and its drivers. Nature Clim Change 6, 791–795 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3004 A copy of the study can also be found on ResearchGate HERE.
Further reading:
Planet Earth Is Healthier Than Ever, Thanks to Global Warming, The Epoch Times, 13 December 2021
New UN Report on Climate Change – Absolutely Nothing in This Report Is True, The Exposé, 9 April 2022
Carbon Dioxide is the Elixir of Life, Let’s Celebrate It Not Demonise It, The Exposé, 15 November 2022
CO2 fertilisation greening the Earth, Boston University, 25 April 2016
Carbon Dioxide Fertilisation Greening Earth, Study Finds
The following was originally published by the United States civil space and aeronautics agency (“NASA”) on 26 April 2016, and updated on 27 March 2019
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.
This image shows the change in leaf area across the globe from 1982-2015. Credits: Boston University/R. Myneni
Green leaves use energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce sugars, which are the main source of food, fibre and fuel for life on Earth. Studies have shown that increased concentrations of carbon dioxide increase photosynthesis, spurring plant growth.
However, carbon dioxide fertilization isn’t the only cause of increased plant growth—nitrogen, land cover change and climate change by way of global temperature,
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Host
From: Showtalk
May-22
It’s simple biology but they deny it.
- Edited May 22, 2023 5:59 pm by Showtalk
Staff
From: WALTER784
May-22
They either deny or lack the common sense to understand something so simple.
FWIW
Host
From: Showtalk
May-23
It shows if someone is taught the wrong information they grow up to believe it.
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