For NYT Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal, Everything is Global Warming's Fault
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal found a familiar villain for her Thursday Business story on the woeful state of Colombia’s coffee crop - "climate change" (“Coffee Source In Colombia Suffers Setbacks – Climate Change Poses a Threat To the Popular Arabica Crop”).
Like most of the small landowners in Colombia’s lush mountainous Cauca region, Luis Garzón, 80, and his family have thrived for decades by supplying shade-grown, rainforest-friendly Arabica coffee for top foreign brands like Nespresso and Green Mountain. A sign in the center of a nearby town proclaims, “The coffee of Cauca is No. 1!”
But in the last few years, coffee yields have plummeted here and in many of Latin America’s other premier coffee regions as a result of rising temperatures and more intense and unpredictable rains, phenomena that many scientists link partly to global warming.
The coffee crop is only the latest thing Rosenthal sees threatened by global warming, excuse me, “climate change.” Back on February 13, she wondered if your house would survive it: “Huff and Puff and Blow Your House Down – Most buildings – ice rinks, stadiums and homes – were built with specific weather conditions in mind. Will they survive climate change?”
On December 14, 2009, she warned hysterically from Bolivia: “A World Bank report concluded last year that climate change would eliminate many glaciers in the Andes within 20 years, threatening the existence of nearly 100 million people....Their disappearance from certain vistas is as startling to Bolivians as the absence of the twin towers is to New Yorkers.”
And on November 1, 2007, Rosenthal warned that ski resorts and golf courses” might be “among [the] victims” of climate change.
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Damn!
Submitted by Unsilent_Minority on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:14am.
...and I was under the impression that a mortgage that is "underwater" meant that more was owed on the loan than the house was worth. I had no idea that it meant that they were literally under water due to "climate change" from melting glaciers! Al Gore, please save us!But there's more
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:17am.
Not too make light of Japan at all. But one of my first thought was "How will they blame this on global warming". The aftershocks and tsunamis are also directly caused by global warming somehow.Yeah I am waiting.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:33am.
Now tell me again how man can destroy the earth with global warming and other things...Oh, you mean the earth can destroy man and what he has built with the shrug of it's shoulders? BTW, the Pacific Ocean is over 10,000 miles wide, over 3 times wider than the United States. Can someone 'splain to me how a tsunami wave that hits Japan is going to survive 10,000 miles and hit our West Coast? Hmmmm?Red Jeep, like it or not,
Submitted by bassndude on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:23am.
Red Jeep, like it or not, tsunami's will travel until it hits something that it cannot sweep over. It will be some what interrupted by Hawaii and the coral reefs there, but not much. A tsunami travels along the depths of the ocean. In other words, a 100 foot tsunami would pass under a fishing boat some miles off shore in water deeper than 100 feet, and the boat would never feel it. That is the reason you first see a dramatic pull back from the normal level of the water before it strikes. Remember, once the energy is transferred to the water, it will travel until it meets a object that can absorb that energy and remain static.
Tsunami's have transverse the Pacific in the past. Big ones. Not like this little 6 footer.
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Submitted by Comrade Jim on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:18pm.
Global warming warms the earth which warms the tectonic plates which makes their interfaces slippery which allows them to slide against each other which causes local relative motion which causes the earth to move locally. Also the warmer water causes the fish to swim faster making larger tsunamis. This problem can, however, be mitigated by unionizing the fish. Michael Moore for President in 2012.According to these hoaxers
Submitted by ant on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:18am.
According to these hoaxers and faithful much of the world was supposed to alredy be under-water. If the climate was really getting warmer, I'd be all for it, winter sucks. I read an article by a scientist whose name I can't remember, explaining how storms are the result of a constant tug-of-war between heat and cold and a warming planet would actually even out the mean temperature resulting in less severe storms. If these Gaia stalwart stewards were so concerned about the planet, I'd have an easier time believing them, if they didn't shut off the water to farms in California, actually mentioned the miles of trash left by border crossers, or didn't insist we use light bulbs filled with mercury vapors.You are all wrong, including Elizabeth.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:27am.
EVERYTHING, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING IS GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT. Didn't you people get the memo from da Messiah, yo?People with the nets should be after Elisabeth now.
Submitted by Thalpy on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:37am.
How many more levels of discrediting data have to be provided to put "global warming" to rest? Does Al have to make his next $million million?Deja Vu All Over Again
Submitted by owr084 on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:41am.
Strange how the Seattle Times publishes an all too similar article six days ago http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014412762_clim... blaming "global warming" for the problems with Costa Rica's coffee crops. A bit of collusion, perhaps?Journolist strikes again?
Submitted by ant on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:47am.
I'm not at all surprised. I bet the 'sign' reading "So-and-so's coffee is #1" she refers to was discovered by her google search. That's the extent of their 'investigations' these days.Hmmm, Global Warming?
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:34am.
From your article:
Weather is only one problem. Costa Rica also has too many old coffee trees, and farmers' costs have risen because of a labor shortage and devalued currency.
On the slopes of Volcano Poás, the biggest threats are colder nights, fiercer winds and rain that falls too hard and at the wrong times. Temperatures at Flores' coffee farms on Poás used to stay above 60 degrees at night, but now are dropping to 52 degrees. He also has planted more rows of Indian cane and other trees as windscreens.
The other thing the article didn't say is that much of Costa Rica's coffee crop is grown in the "Central Valley", the area around the capital, San Jose. The Central Valley is one of the most hospitable places on the planet, climate wise, and has grown exponentially over the last twenty years. What was once farmland is now suburbia. But it's all Global Warming, check!
I don't understand how colder nights is Global Warming (BTW, it was 49 degrees in Sunny South Florida early this morning!). Global Warming, indeed.
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Juan Valdez saw this coming ten years ago
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:56am.
That's why he switched over to growing Columbian Gold. The warmer the better.
Juan's faithful donkey Conchita has since retired comfortably.
Tsunamis are worser kuz, islands are lower, er sea higher
Submitted by upcountrywater on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:57am.
So sez some BBC bimbo, reporting from Indonesia. She also explains that buildings are flimsier in Indo, because of AGW, hello Indo is Poor and in a Hot tropical zone...
It ain't Global Warming now it's Climate Challenges; sheesh catch-up..
3 foot waves here in Hawaii and the internet is still on. Sunrise in an hour so I'm guessing things are good around here.
You Didn't Build That.
Golf Courses too!!! Goddammit! I have Tee Times booked
Submitted by redright88 on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:01am.
..Now I'm really pissed. I just bought a brand new set of Taylor Made irons...now this.!While this article and
Submitted by jdhawk on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:55am.
While this article and articles like it are just so much blatherings to a welcoming audience of like-minded liberals, the real battles over global warming, at least here in the United States, are being fought in the courts. Here is an article from the Heritage Foundation that explains the issues and dangers that lie ahead. It is entitled, "Climate Policy by Judicial Fiat: How Global Warming Lawsuits Subvert the Democratic Process." You can read it here: http://heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/02/Climate-Policy-by-Judicial-....Watching the local news last night
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:17pm.
After then news and before the sports segment (pretty 'hot' with the ACC Tournament in action), there was the Climate Change section. The Climate Change-ologist pointed out on the Climate Change map several different Climate Change fronts, which are atmospheric boundaries between warming air and hotter air. Some of the warming air masses were producing record snow fall of frozen warm air precipitation. In other parts of the world, the Climate Change-ologist mentioned, changing patterns of global warming were causing crop loss in the Amazon and raising the potential for severe earthquakes, like the one this morning that struck Japan with tsunami of warming water caused by warming air masses.Global Warming - oops.. cooling - in Colombia
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 3:40pm.
Taking a look at NASA's GISS Surface Temperature Analysis site. Interestingly, can't seem to find any long term historical records. About the longest one that I see in the region here is one at Neiva, Colombia - just about 53 miles to the northwest of Timbio. The record is from the early 1970's to present. You can see it here:
A few things seem to pop out at one in the data graph there: Temperature here swings rather wildly from year to year here historically, there's no warming trend since 1970 and in recent years (the time frame mentioned in the NYT's piece) it's been cooling.
Interesting to note that the highest temperature ever recorded in South America was 120 degrees F., in Argentina in 1905.
Precipitation? Well, La Nina years usually result in more rainfall in Colombia.
Wow - science is so easy.
I like my coffee hot, by the way.(;~/ gary