I've a brief spot on RadioLive at 9 this morning, discussing the unseasonally warm winter.
What's there to say? It's unseasonably warm. Queenstown has no snow, making their Winter Festival somewhat sand-paperish where usually it's swish and leaving gardeners throughout the south saying, 'We need a good frost to kill the bugs'. I've never really subscribed to the theory that the chill clears the decks of bugs, either those that creep and crawl in the garden or those that cause the misery of colds and flu but it seems we might know by the spring, if this warm weather continues.
I'll say that climate change is responsible and that no new coal mines should be created and that behind it all, John Key is to blame. That should fire up a couple of listeners at least :-)
4 comments:
Robert,the lack of snow is unusual but not unprecedented. This aging farmer has seen it before. The snow storm of last spring was a lot further outside the norm.
Of course you Warmists claim that as well by labeling those sort of events Climate Change!
FBB - of course you are right and you have the perfect weapon of denial to counter any and every single event that might present itself - it's been this way before and it came right. I'm not so foolish as to say there will be no snow this winter and that it will continue to be warmer than before, but I can see the wood for the trees. The overall picture, coupled with the science tells me that it's all on for global warming and the disrupted weather that's bringing. Farmers should be very concerned by increasingly unpredictable weather. A warm winter is nice in some ways but the worms and other pests that harass stock might be thinking the same thing. If I were a farmer, I'd be wishing for regular, predictable weather, not the opposite.
Not a denier, Robert, just a sceptic.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2004463/Cooler-Earth-The-Ice-Age-coming-dont-panic.html#
Farmers have to be skeptical about something that will affect them so greatly FBB. It's unthinkable I suppose, to agree with the science that says the climate is going to give the environment a thrashing.
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