Heat wave cooks apples on trees in Ireland - BBC

[LiberalEsto]

This boggles my mind. Last week it hit 98 degrees in the Arctic, and now this. And the Dipsh*t in the White House STILL doesn't believe in global climate change?

From BBC:

"Fruit growers in County Armagh are counting the cost of a heat wave which has left many apples cooked on the trees.
Damage is clear to see with the fragile apple skins burned brown

Orchard owners have been left wondering whether the stewed fruit was the result of a freak weather pattern or points to climate change.

The heatwave in the orchards began on 10 July and over the next few days growers say there was barely a breath of wind to help cool the fruit."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4695087.stm

[maxsolomon]

1. if its climate change, its here already

so tra la la, why try to prevent something that's already happened?

its all going to work out. our leaders said so!

[Xipe Totec]

2. Global Warming is a Self-Correcting Problem

The only question is whether or not we as a species will be around when the pattern reverses.

Some of us would like to stick around but, apparently, that is not the majority opinion at the moment.

[mcscajun]

3. You got it...

...so did George...Carlin, that is. :)

"The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!"

[Lorien]

5. Maybe not

Right now desertification and massive ocean "dead zones" are spreading at a shocking rate. NOTHING lives in these areas. If the trend continues Earth will be as lifeless as the face of the moon.

[Xipe Totec]

7. I'm betting on the roaches

clostridium and cyanobacteria will make it too. The rest of the biota are long shots.

[htuttle]

9. Gaia's 'nest egg' lives near volanic vents on the ocean floor

It doesn't need oxygen or organic food. Just like when Gaia 'got here'.

Thing is, being at that point (anerobic life) would mean we'd wasted the last 3 billion years...Don't know if she'd have another shot at going elsewhere before the sun burns out.

[King Coal]

4. So, who gives a shit?

The rapture is coming anyhoo. Hide the bong!

[Lorien]

6. Most people just don't understand that climate change

DOES NOT simply mean warmer temps or more storms; it mean NO FOOD. No food for us or our livestock. It's amazing to me that so few make the connection.

[Bridget Burke]

8. Global Warming could eventually lead to a colder Ireland...

One TV show explained how more fresh water from melted ice could dilute the warm, salty water in the Tropics. Possible result: Disruption of the Gulf Stream. The Irish & others who live on the same latitude as Labrador would get a bit chilly.

Not much of a comfort.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/gulf.stm