Today's twats are whoever it was who came up with the headline "Oceans warming four times faster" and the people who compiled the figures.
"Hot pollution being dumped into seas by factories and power plants, plus waters not being protected from the Sun by trees due to deforestation, are mainly to blame."
Yup. And the areas where temperatures have risen most (up to 1.4oC over twenty-five years, yawn) are round the coastline of industrialised countries (North Sea, Baltic, East China, South Japan). Even assuming they went to the bother of measuring temperature changes out in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific, they admit that the average increase in temperatures was only 0.3o over twenty-five years, er, that means an average increase of 0.012oC per year. I'm really scared now. Not*.
"Nick Nuttall, spokesman for the UN's environment programme, which wrote the report, said: 'A large number of people are dependent on these ecosystems for their livelihood.'
Sure thing. And a hundred times as many depend on factories, shipping, forestry and so on for their livelihood. Closer to home, the biggest threat to the 'livelihood'of our own fisheries industry is, er, the EU.
* At this rate, the oceans will boil dry in about 7,500 years' time.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
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Hang on. "Hot pollution being dumped into seas by factories and power plants,...": sounds as if they are confessing to the importance of the Urban Heat Island effect. Hurray, it ain't CO2 after all.
LOL
So if see temps are rising that means that evaporation will increase. This will mean more rain which, with the increase in temperatures will mean increased crops and therefore cheaper food.
Lets keep building them factories so we can all get richer.
Of course the down side is that we will all get fatter, which means more prod noses.
Looks like heads we lose, tails they win.
GS, please report to the nearest re-education camp immediately!
MMGW has no positive side-effects, repeat, none whatsoever!
Well, warmer northern latitudes (Not) mean more grape growing areas, more wine (hic) an, en, en, an, ish really loverly thish warming thingy. I could just do a kebab, heavy on the chilli sauce.
Fuck the Polar Bears, fluffy white bassards, who'd they fink they are eh? Fink they're hard? Gordon Brahn could kick 'em to deaf. Only good ice is in a jug of Sangria.
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